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I'm almost 21 years old and never had a girlfriend. Never even kissed a girl apart from on the cheek or forehead.

I need to get braces because some of my teeth are crooked. Looking in the mirror, most of them are not bad at all. I take good care of my teeth and get them cleaned at the dentist regularly. They are white and healthy and the only thing is that I have some crowding on the bottom and one crooked tooth up top. There are definitely much more worse cases that I've seen.

My teeth make me not want to smile too much and that becomes a problem when I'm talking to girls more intimately. But I simply cannot figure out why it bothers me so much. I feel like I can't look too bad if I have female friends who still kiss me on the cheek and like to set me up with their friends.

I mean at one point recently I was scared on picking a college major and so I took some extra classes and "just did it." Now I have an idea on what I'm doing with my life. I was unhappy with my body appearance so I took the burden head on and worked out to the point of being happy with my body. I didn't have many friends when I first started college and so for once I put myself out there and got a great group of friends.

So why can't I look past this flaw? I know if it we're someone else with my same teeth It wouldn't bother me. It's like my emotional insecurity is preventing me from physically smiling to convey emotion which I feel is a very important part of human interaction.

I'm currently out of school and working as the program I want to be in is full. So I started working and my health insurance won't kick in for another six months. I have to wait it out because seven thousand dollars is too much for me to drop right now.

I know I want a relationship. Most of my friends are in relationships and it bothers me when I see people together and I don't have that.

I love her so much because she always laughs and is always so nice. Here is what she has done to me that gets me confused.
She has talked to me about how bad her previous dates have gone with her other boyfriends and has told me how many boyfriends she has had before
I work out before practice for an hour and a half a day before our 2 hour practice so when I am running up and down the stairs on her way in we talk for like 20 minutes and she showed me her favorite music.
We text a lot, I usually send her good night texts and have sent her a good luck at school one time and she responds same you too or good night with a blush smiley face with the eyebrows (CONFUSING)
Tomorrow she has a track meet at 9 AM so i have to leave at 8 AM to get there which is a pain in the ass but I would do it to come see her first varsity meet. When I texted her surprising her I said I could go she said in full caps YAYAYAYAYAYA ur the best! but after I said your going to run so fast tomorrow she said "Yeah because I have great friend like you cheering me on" <- GOD DAMN IS THAT FRIENDZONE

Also I am 6'1 with a 6 pack and bench 160 and decent face with like fuck boi white guy hair :P but i do still have clear braces :P I am 15 a sophomore she is 14 a freshman (it says i am 29 i lied on the thing)

I really love her and I have been texting her a lot sending her compliments like you have a beautiful smile and i love your earings i told her in person once and she responds usually with "aw that's so sweet (FUCKING BLUSH FACE)

and usually every other compliment I give her she responds with some "aw thats nice" aw your so sweet" bull shit.

My school is an all guys school and hers is an all girl school so she really wanted to come to one of our dances so I said I would take her so she could come and she said thanks. IM SO CONFUSED WITH THIS GIRL OMG BUT I LOVE HER I JUST SPENT 3 HOURS GETTING A WAY TO GET TO HER TRACK MEET AT 9 AM... after she called me a great friend :(