I get this too, to a certain extent. I'm about a decade younger, have been on all of 1 date in my life, zero girlfriends, no sex. Occasionally it bothers me, but that's mostly the feeling of outside standards looking in (how practically everyone i know, even guys who are as nerdy as i am, are in relationships).
My preference, ultimately, is that i'm a guy who LOVES having a fair bit of down time. I'm not lazy necessarily, as i've spent the last semester and this past summer with around 45 hrs/week combined class/internship/work (and during the term, of course, homework, so a lot of my free time wasn't really free). But i don't like tackling more than one thing at a time. In my case, grad school is that one thing. After that it will be "find a real job and get situated" (get my own place, etc), and *then* i'll start trying to spread my social wings. I would ultimately love to find someone and raise a family in the long run, but that has dick-all to do with what i'm doing with myself this year (or next. Yay grad school...)
Point of the story is, of course, you when you feel that need to justify yourself, stop and think: am i justifying myself because of external pressures, or am i justifying myself because i'm truly unhappy but am looking for excuses to not change?
Edited addendum: working weekends definitely doesn't help. Fortunately I scored a job over the next two semesters that will be weekdays ONLY and work around my class schedule, so maybe i could get a jump on dating this coming year. At least i'll have a chance to socialize with my classmates instead of "can't do that this Saturday, have to be at the gas station."
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
