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Okay so this happened to me years ago.

I was getting ready and set for prom or homecoming whatever; I was in an online school at the time I was going to, and this happened in like the early of 2020, right before the COVID struck. You’re one of the prom committees to take part in planning for the prom, so you’ll be wanting to take a date with a girl from your school, right? But then my mother knows of this, and she’s a narcissistic parent. She says and wants for your sister, who is a brainwashed, manipulated version of her, to take her as your prom date, and you denied that because, knowing the sister, all she’ll do is report back to the mom and say what happened with you out of prom while she spies and watches your move. What my sister would do is she’ll watch me from afar when I meet with my former best friend I had at the time who was anointed to be one of the prom committees also or whatever and talk to girls. The sister will feel to come over to intervene in it, saying hi, hello, I’m his sister, or you go to walk with your friend out to the hall or something, go to the bathroom together just chatting and having fun whatever during the night, but then she’ll pull you wise and say you shouldn’t be talking to girls like that; they are worldly. The religion is JW’s (Jehovah Witness), and the way the sister and mom think is that those who aren’t part of their religion are labeled to them as bad people, but that person doesn’t think of people that way because not everybody in the world is bad and there’s genuine good people out there, you’d just need to get to know people to know their character and respect them as we all are humans and should never be treated differently no matter our religion. But they are critical and judgmental of people even if they show they are good with pure intentions but still find something criticized or call them worldly.

So tell me y’all answers or opinions on this?

Should I look for love or just lust? All my surgery's are healed on my special dose and well wondering if I'm ready to date or should just go enjoy?

Prefer a boyfriend but also open to casual!

Do you wait until you feel that you are in love with your partner to suggest that you two date exclusively (NOT asking about living together)? Can you enter an exclusive relationship without already being in love? Is being in love not the only thing that needs to happen before you agree to date exclusively? Or is there no relationship between these two ideas at all?

On several occasions, I have begun dating a lady exclusively after three or four dates, when I certainly was not in love with her and we had not yet had sex, but I did feel some affection as well as physical attraction.

And you?