10 September

I never dated as a teen. 70% of that was me being chronically shy. 30% was me not sure what the point of dating was. I'm still not sure. Relationships, sure, central to life. But it's not clear to me even today that dating is good training in relationships, I've known serial daters who are in completely dysfunctional long-term relationships. And vice versa. I'm glad these studies are showing teens who don't date actually seem to be better adjusted, most teen dating I've observed over the years hasn't seemed a great use of anybody's time. It can freeze people at certain stages of development, and they don't seem to recover, they're adolescents well into middle-age.