Do your feelings develop on the expected time line when meeting someone from a dating app?

I’ve really struggled with the pace of online dating. While I can easily like people that I meet and enjoy talking to them, I just don’t feel very much in terms of that special level of affection until I get to know them.

But I fear that this means I tend to give off the wrong vibes and I have a hard time being flirty or even seeming particularly interested in them.

This can be true even when I like having sex with them and am genuinely attracted to them (although of course those things help create the right feelings). It just feels strange to act affectionate and flirty somehow, like I’m with someone I just don’t know very well.

Or maybe I’m just extremely out of practice? I have not been in a relationship with affection for about 10 years. If that’s the problem then I don’t know how to end this period.