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Gaboub

Should I risk it all and meet with dating app strangers?

I (M24) recently took the plunge and decided to try out various dating apps, Grindr being the one with the most succesful attempts, where I met two strangers I'll call T (TF23) whom I met recently and B (M27) who I've been talking with for a while now.

I am incredibly attracted to both of them, and it goes both ways. By all means this should be as simple as meeting up and doing the deed. Unfortunately I still live with my parents, and they're quite overprotective but not entirely wrong. The one I've actually talked to is my mom, seeing as my dad would flip at the thought of me being queer.

Her reasoning, of course, is about how meeting internet strangers is dangerous and I could be walking into the arms of a serial killer or someone deranged, which I think isn't likely but not entirely impossible either. At the same time, I'm 24 years old and at this point worrying like that just feels unnecesary. It's frustrating to the point I'm thinking of sneaking out and meet with one of them anyways. But I want to do this the right way, hopefully with my mom accepting my decision.

Both T and B live reasonably close by (we all live in Chile by the way, T lives in another city but still is close by). B actually lives really close to my neighbourhood so it isn't entirely impossible we might have crossed paths earlier. I don't really see a reason for them trying to possibly catfish me, as I feel they've been honest with me.

So, any advice on how to proceed?

Posted Jan 30, 2026, 5:17 AM UTC

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