How long is too long to wait? is it normal to wait this long?
I got out of a 4 year relationship about a year ago. Long story short, I fell into the abyss that was my first year of med school. I was essentially replaced with one of the men in her online stables. I'm not saying it is her fault, as I am to blame as well. I suppose if I could do things over I wish she could have seen I was setting up 'our' future or that I would have been able to articulate this to her. I now find myself back on the dating scene . . .
Ahh, online dating . . . for those individuals that have no time and can only find suitable dates online? I gravitated to online dating because I do not (1) want to date a med student(too much in common) and (2) I am not getting any younger (30 year old male). . .
Those matching profiles must be superbly accurate . . . or not. How many dates did I go on? I believe at least twenty. Twenty different women that I carved out time and money for to take out. Is it a 'true match' when the woman across from me begins speaking of babies on a first date? How about the lady that suggests to go out on several dates to, mind you, expensive locales just to disappear off the face of the Earth? How about women who show up and are 10 years older, 10 years younger, and/or 75 pounds heavier than how they describe their self online? Or women insurmountably inseparable to the exact date you graduate med school and when you set up residence . . .there not digging for gold. . . they like me for me?
I'm not a monster and I'm not an ass. I'm simply looking for a girl that has healthy life style habits and is sincere. Mind you, you can be a 'chunky monkey' and exponentially healthier than Miss Twiggy. Health, within reason, is not tied to a number on a scale. Also important is like interests. My 'profile' is not lying to 'woo' potential females. . . Nor it there to be disregarded. . . to share a common core in which a foundation can be developed would be nice.
And then I finally met the lady to whom this post is dedicated. She is older than me, by one year, and is my (as I see it) 'chunky little monkey.' I prefer, in honesty, a little extra to grab a hold of . . and health is important to her as she realizes it and is/has been making steps to improve it by being active in conjunction with a better diet.
But . . .we have now been courting for almost 6 months. I have met her parents. I have been on many dates with her to anywhere you can imagine. I try to make time to be with her the best I can considering my time constraints and current situation in life (I make time, a lesson I learned from my scarred heart). But here in lies the problem . . . we have not been romantically intimate. Mind you, this is not what I am 'looking for.' It is, though, I feel, a part of any healthy relationship.
Is this normal? I am physically within the norms, I am 'in shape', I try to do right by her and show affection but I seem to get nowhere. Is it because she does not like sex? Is it because she is dealing with past issues? Is it because she does not like me? What is normal for a 30 year old female to wait to have sex with a suitor? Is it six months?