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Three years ago, I met a guy who seemed like my perfect match. He had no obvious , ticked all my boxes, and more than anything, being with him just felt –like straight-up Cinderella and Prince Charming right. So as one does, I told my friends about him, and their reactions were.

..not what I expected.



They couldn’t help but fixate on the fact that seemed to trump every good thing I said about him: He’d never had a girlfriend before. I thought, * * Doubts started swirling in my brain. Why hadn’t he ever been in a relationship before? Was he a commitment-phobe in disguise? Was he low-key a fuck boy? Or.

..had he just not met the right person yet? It was that last possibility that made me decide to stay the course, and to this day, our relationship is stronger than ever.

I’m glad I gave the dating newbie a chance, and I wholeheartedly think you should too. I’ll explain. I get the hesitation towards dating someone with little to no dating history.

It’s hard to shake the societally engrained notion that lack of experience automatically makes someone unqualified, not just when it comes to dating, but for everything from jobs, to apartment applications, to credit. Just take a look at the most . Sam N.

, a contestant who admitted he’d before, got some serious side-eye from the other guys and was eliminated by Bachelorette Jenn in week five. Or think about the movie , where Andy, a middle-aged man who’s never seriously dated anyone long enough to have sex, has friends w.

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