I am still looking.. ....I don't know if I can love online.

Imagine your early teens, your first dance and for many is the first dance, music start playing and everybody is waiting on somebody else to ask someone to dance. It is like this ladies and gentlemen and suddenly the first crush happens as somebody already mentioned. The potential is there, there will be a lot of valid excuses like distance, availability and age difference. But little by little while the music plays more of us will join the dance. And certain walls will come crumbling. I am a virgin in this but after everything else I had done I got nothing to fear. Many of us are losing friends faster than can make new ones. Friendships will keep me coming back. And by the end of the year we may not want the dance to stop. There is a novel and movie.. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter". Many of us may be used to hunt in packs. All I know is that we are going to dance before the dance is over. I hear music playing. Good Luck Everybody.

If I lived closer...

I jest, but if I were single, this would be my first place to look. I see beautiful minds here.

Thank you for all the responses. With this data, I can safely say my crush(es) here aren't that far off the mark then.

It would be nice, but I think that before I suggest a relationship of that sort I'd like a number of good online interactions with someone and then I'd want more direct sorts of contact outside of the forum. That's mainly because as things stand, to have an in-person date would almost certainly involve some long-distance travel.

I've only been here a little while, and haven't had the depth of contact with anyone yet. I'm open to it, sure, and I see that there are a few connections like that which have been made.

If that doesn't happen, that's okay, because it's inherently pleasant to exchange thoughts with others with whom there is the non-religious angle on things in common.