[Powerman293]

I think for teenagers, dating could potential fuck up your maturity and mental growth. Sure, you gain experience of learning what kind of people you are interested in but I don't think a huge thing like dating is good for teenagers who are also trying to find out who they are. Of course, if you start having sex in high school, you're likely to become what I like to call a "One Night stander", someone who has the ideas that love is about the physical relationship and not the emotional one.

Now I'm not saying every teenager is going to have sex with every relativity hot person in their gender of interest but I guess this is why I don't deal with complex issues like this.

I have no girlfriend and I don't plan to get one anytime soon, although I do want to get skinnier so I am ready. I don't know what I expect out of a relationship, what I actually get, what she wants or what will happen when we break up. I'm more unprepared then anything. I guess couples find personailities similar to each other as a few of my female friends have boyfriends that are also my friends too and they both seem like good fits. One of my female friends is upbeat and quirky and into sports and the guy she is dating is moderately upbeat and quirky not as often.

So I am at square zero. Any beginning pointers?