What if you have no interests in dating at all?
What if someone has no interest in dating, one night stands, marrying nor having kids?
I know a lot of people consider this a big part of meaning or purpose in life but I've never felt any desire for it. I'm personally not a fan of one nights stands, I prefer meaning and connection but I also don't find anyone attractive nor appealing in way that I could connect with. I'm not sure whether this is due to trauma and it become a norm or I just don't have genetic nor environmental desire for it.
Many people think that your obligation should be to marry and have family due to evolutionary and cultural reasons but there is also another end of the spectrum that disagrees with it and focuses more about liberal lifestyle while some later in life regret it. I also see a lot of divorce and regret of starting families within my own family and other people.
I personally believe in "live and let live", people should live their lives in a way that they desire to without having to experience guilt nor pressure from other people as long as they don't hurt anyone else.
I can be quite idealistic and romantic in artistic and emotional sense. I also get along with people quite well despite having ASD and OCD but I have no desire to date anyone. I feel quite emotionally detached from people in general. I couldn't even feel anything when my relatives died despite knowing that it would be a right thing to feel sadness and pain. I personally didn't feel anything.
I don't want to sound like this, I'm just trying to paint an honest picture, girls were often interested in me back in high school and college while my other friends and classmates wanted to date them but I've personally rejected them. I wasn't interested in them enough to have long term relationships and I didn't want to have one night stand because I have too much empathy and didn't want to hurt another human being for no reason. I get along really well with women as friends but I'm just not interested in dating any (or at least most). I am straight but I live as asexual.
I feel that I've had so much potential with dating that I've wasted due to my own personality, OCD and ASD reasons. There were way more girls interested compared to most of my friends but I'm just very avoidant and uninterested for some reason. While I enjoy solitude and peaceful life, I feel guilty about having wasted potential and would make me inferior and might potentially hit me like a brick.
Any questions are welcome.:)
I'd appreciate some second hand view on this situation because I'm not sure how to take it.:)
Posted Nov 14, 2025, 2:00 PM UTC