I am sad. I have always wanted to date & get married. But I can't even meet single girls. They are married or have boyfriends
In high school I was too shy. I was better in college, but still working at it, & without an internship or campus job, I couldn't compete. It seems people meet their significant other's in high school or college. Now I am stuck. People said it gets a lot harder to meet singles after college, they are right.
I meet lots of people, & have met lots of people, but no one ever has a niece, daughter, or granddaughter. There is never a neighbor or coworker. If a girl is talkative to you, it turns out she has a boyfriend. She knows you can't do anything inapprorpriate to her because she has a boyfriend already. You always know they have a boyfriend because they'll mention them early on in conversation, and frequently too.
So if it's this hard meeting singles, how much harder it is to find one compatible w/ me, that I like & she likes me too. It's pretty impossible.
People tell me 'you've probably had one interested, you just couldn't recognize it.' No, I've only had a couple short friendships w/ girls. If you can call them friendships. They weren't deep or anything. & they didn't last very long, a few months to a year. I had thought it meant God was giving me practice for something long-term down the line w/ someone else, but it didn't happen.
Now I watch other people get dates, become a couple, get married, have children. Some people I know children are in elementary school already, & I've never even really been on a date. They did what I want in middle school, their own kids are almost there already, & in regards to girls, I'm still stuck in middle school. No matter how much progress I make, no matter how much I change & work on myself, it's never good enough.
I am 31 now. I s/ still have a lot of life yet God willing, but I've already missed out so much time w/ a girl. We didn't grow up together, we didn't go to school together, we didn't buy our first house or car together, or pet together. So much life & time has been wasted.
That's not good! They wouldn't invite you if they didn't want you there. Try being appreciate of what they have & talk to them about it. If the kids are young, play w/ them or talk to them.