Personally I'm at the age where I don't think I'm ready for a comitment, just wanna hang out with friends and be silly.

Obviously in future I'll be looking for the right person / physical not distance

Friends can be there to be physical, sharing etc, but I'm sure you'll find the right person for you someday

I feel similar to you, wanting to be romantic with someone, having those nice ''how could it be'' imaginations. having pursued someone for the past couple of years but nothing has come of it yet, i am also starting to just let it fade. i've come to a point where, if the other person doesnt see me as worthy, there's no need for me to continue pursuing them for another year in vain.

I kinda hate it to be honest. I feel I tend to push some of my close friends always because I have no outlet for my feelings at times. Like I'm just being too flirty and such.

I'm cool with it, I mean sometimes I get lonely yeah but I can just talk to Google or Siri XD

I wouldnt know what to tell ye. I'm one of the peeps whos more than happy, and has been, to not really be in a relationship of sorts. Thats not to say its an idea I'm opposed to, if it happens it'll happen x3. Albeit, I would be wrong to say I havent been curious as to what one would be like from time to time. But that longing feeling for me really isn't there. I tend to just treat whomever I meet as friendly as I can n stuff. But yeah that's just me

Well Danny, I don't know much on this subject, but personally, I'm fine without a relationship. I've seen the shite my mom and step dad have gone through in the past 10 years, and honestly, I don't want any of that. Yes, there can be plenty of good times, but the bars times can happen as well.

I hate it but after the relationships and abuse I've been through, being single is safer and less painful overall. I'm learning to be self sufficient and stop making my self worth revolve around making a partner happy. Letting yourself overly rely on someone like that is a great way to open yourself up to pain. Being so goddamn reliant on your partner that you say "thank you" as they emotionally eviscerate you is a lovely little slice of hell. It's also pathetic.

You're a sweet fella, Danny. I hope you find what you want and I hope you have the wisdom to not let it consume in the process.

The reason you need someone is to help you do things.

Being single has its pros and cons. One might think that it has more cons than pros, but personally, I think that it's split even. Yeah, it sucks being single and if any longer, it can give the impression that nobody likes you (a feeling I feel all too well). However, over time, I learned that it's not too bad. Being single means that you have all the time in the world to find that special person to be with, as jumping right in is just an invitation to be pain, especially if you're doing it solely for the reason to avoid being single. I think single people get teased a lot for reasons that make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Meh, I eventually have gotten used to it.

Ehh I’ve been single all of my life and have learned to live with it. The sadness of being single comes and goes but I get through it. I would love to date someone and I’m just going to have to wait until that guy shows up in my life.

That’s a tough question to be honest, and yes I’m single.

I’ve been single since forever and probably always will be. Personally I think it sucks and is super lonely but, among other things, I’m *still* trying to find myself. Not being single I would feel like I couldn’t change/improve myself unless they’d go along with it too, which seems super restrictive.

Maybe that awesome person exists that we’d work together now and with how we’d change in the future, but I feel like relationships are an easy way to either staginate or end up with a <\3

As an alternative to both relationships and loneliness I try to go for the third option, keeping myself distracted with fun stuff, hobbies and friends! It kind of works :p

Being single has allowed me to really get to explore myself and my interests without the influence of "trying to be compatible" with a partner, but on the flipside, I am getting to that age where the parental pressures to find a partner and marry may be increasing. So I do have dating website accounts and apps, but I just browse casually, seeing if anyone seems like a workable romantic partner. I haven't received many responses, but at the same time, I'm not wallowing in loneliness since I have awesome friends who know me.

This describes how I feel a little too much, but I'm sure it'll happen someday.

I feel you bro. All my friends have girlfriends and i dont have a boyfriend so it makes me feel really lonley.

I don't think you should change who you are. If you're not a person who is perfectly fine being single your whole life, that's ok. :) You simply want to find someone and I perfectly understand that feeling. I also wanted the same and eventually I found it with Thaz.
If you are already fun and outgoing on the outside, then that's good already! A lot of people are introverts which makes it difficult to find someone.
Lots of people are under the impression that someone will just coincidentally come to them. ^^; I don't think it works like that. The important thing is that you keep looking and keep trying, even if some relationships fail, you will eventually find someone that sticks by you. :)

Never had a relationship or bonded strongly with anyone.
Part of me wants to have a relationship, and I feel quite alone.
However, I also know that I usually feel better with my own company..
So I'm conflicted.
At the moment I just push that loneliness aside and try to be happy alone. :p

Is this your way of breaking up with me?

Thank you so much for the responses guys I really appreciate it.

I enjoy it.

I never felt like searching for someone, and even knowing that it is possible to, through apps and such... I just don't feel like doing it. But it's not because I'm lazy, and instead, because I also don't feel like I need a relationship. I already have enough friends who love and care about me, so I don't feel like I need only one person to do that.
Then there's also the fact that I don't wanna ever have kids. I prefer to spend the rest of my life only taking care of my mom. I don't really wanna have to worry about kids.

So overall, I'm quite happy being single. It also gives me more freedom, as I can go anywhere, anytime, without having to explain myself.

I feel like I'm the exact same way with a lot of this; It does feel a little worse once you've had a taste of a relationship before and liked it - as I have. I dislike being single a bit. At times I feel incapable of meeting any new people; I want my partner to be a great friend first, so I never go looking with just an intent to hook up. I'm also not that great at meeting new people in general in the first place, so... :v

I try not to let it bother me too much. I can see that I still enjoy some advantages of being single, and the company of friends usually helps me a lot. For the most part, it's all about trying to enjoy and distract myself. :P

Oh God, this kind of question..
Short answer/TLDR answer: Conflicted. Absolutely conflicted.

Long answer: To think that it's something that I strove to NOT be for the past four years and nearly completely destroyed my life over. Tch. Talk about being young and stupid.
Before all this, I enjoyed being single. Hell, I hated the hell out of relationships and such. And the next thing I knew, I found myself chasing so many guys and went through so much shit, that it's far from funny.
If it weren't for my massive jealousy complex and persistent loneliness, I'd be 100% just fine without a relationship. My heart yearns for companionship, but my mind and life says fuck that shit. Be alone forever. Because that's how I should be, and how I always wanted to be before. Why continue wrecking my own life for something that will inevitably cause more problems?? I shouldn't have bothered. It is NOT worth it. And never will be.
But these conflicting desires hurt me more though. I just wish there was a more simple answer...
At this point I've decided on letting whatever happens happen. If I find the one, great. If I don't, whatever. I just will not ever actively seek him out ever again. For now, I must focus on reconstructing my life, and try not to let the jealousy and loneliness keep that from happening...

At times, it feels like the greatest freedom in the world. However, this feeling never lasts. My relationships usually don't last very long because I don't like commitment. For some blasted reason I keep feeling that a relationship limits my individual freedom too much, either that or I just simply hate the thought of having to change. I usually end up backing out of relationships for this reason, like some weird junkie who can only get high on a large dose of solitude.

I seem to experience very similar things and feelings. Being single for so long, especially never really having felt intimacy bonds, I know I am incomplete and lacking. It's weird because, I absolutely want to get married to someone and completely give myself entirely to them without thinking it over.
...yet right now, as I am single, I find I build the equivalent of a relationship almost, by having relatively many deep close friends. Like a lotta bromance and creeping up to more than that even, very fond and deep. Sometimes that is enough. And the weird conflict is if I got in a significant other relastionship I'd no longer be able to maintain the deep bromances.
It seems being single may not automatically mean that loneliness, there may be ways to plug the giant hole with a lot of small corks, although... that may not be a healthy or good thing, I don't know.

Short version, yah i can live alone single, but i don't function my best that way.

well... sometimes i wish to can get out and live my life away from my family, and start without them. they don't like what i do, i don't like them and what they do nither, why do i even bother to still living with them?
there are other people that like the idea to live with their family, but i actually like a lot more the idea of share my living with a partner, but not with my family, that's not for me.
in conclusion, live single or with a partner are good options if you can actually enjoy that lifestyle.

If I may, patience is key for great things, but sometimes patience becomes a enigma that tolls away at your time. I might make this long because I'm not gonna say "I know how you feel" or "I been there myself" because people are unique and different with different emotions but have the same goal.

I say this yet I might break that oath by telling you guys this story that I hope not only helps DannyDumal but everyone here and will understand and go into it with an open mind when I say 13. Probably wondering what I mean by that well to make a rather long story as short as possible I started having feelings and had attractions to other guys in high school. I thought about coming out but got scared by what happened to the WTC in 2001. What came next was I hate to say it but the norms of the name calling since I'm a Muslim on my dad's side. This cause me to withdrawal myself since kids were already being mean just because of my religion it would be even worst if they knew that I'm gay. So I kept it to myself from everyone thinking that maybe I was just confused or bi for you guessed it 13 years. Than on June 1st 2013 I dated a women for the first time and after the breakup where I won't bored you guys with details since that's a whole another story, I finally came to my senses that I'm gay and manage to tell the first person, Anu my oldest sister on March 1st 2014 and soon one by one the rest of the family again not gonna make you guys read all that.

During those years after coming out I did lots of thinking about not having met that special guy yet even though he may or may not exist. I try looking at it like this to where even though I may not have a boyfriend in this timeline but maybe my other self of a different parallel timeline does, Like being in this timeline where you don't have a love one or someone special near you BUT that would mean that the other timelines where you are the opposite where you DO have a love one and are not alone. I wouldn't be too sad knowing that my other self has someone special treating whoever it is with repect and kindness and the same can be said for you too .

That's part of the reason why I also came out was I didn't want to be in this timeline where I would be alone and sad. I wanna be in the timeline where I am happy. with or without someone. I even felt like I wasted 13 years down the drain being afraid of what others thought that I never had the chance to do anything new and fun but most importantly being happy with myself not just being gay but also admitting that have other flaws and a spoiled brat and push on towards changing my attitude and a fabulous brighter day teehee.

choose what you wanna believe, I'm not here to force people to believe me or not I just wanted to say not to give up because it's different for each person.

I hope this helps at least one person and hope I didn't go overboard.

"There is nothing more ridiculous than being born in this world to be alone.. " - Jaguar D. Saul from One Piece.