I have to admit... I'm 18. I've never been on a date, despite the fact that I've had two girlfriends. My first was at 11 and now she doesn't consider it an actual relationship given our age. My second was at 16 and lasted two weeks. Yeah, I'm pretty bad sometimes.

While I'm not really concerned about my perpetual singleness I do wonder from time to time about it. Seeing as this is a large community with probably lots of advise, I'm going to throw it out here. One question that I do have specifically is, must I have an emotional connection with a person - a crush, if you will - before I try to ask her out? That's how I've gone about things my whole life and of all the ones I've had crushes on, only one felt the same way for me. (My second girlfriend was the one who asked me out, but at the time I didn't have any feelings for her. )