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I withdrew from everything social and this app is what is left

Posted as stopped_going_out, 22 July 2026

Looking for
one arrangement, found privately, with no social element at all
Experience
Twelve years, three dynamics, the last two found on apps.
Around
Neukölln, Berlin

For years I did all of this the way people used to: through people, gradually, in company. Three years ago I stopped going out entirely for reasons that were mine and that I am not going to detail in an advertisement, and what remains is this application and the small number of conversations I have on it.

Forty two, Neukölln, switch, twelve years in, three arrangements and the last two both found on a phone.

That is not a sad story and I would rather it was not read as one. My life is quiet by design now, I am well, and the thing I have lost is not company but the informal way you used to find out who somebody actually was before you met them. On here everybody arrives without a history and you have to build the judgement yourself.

What I want is one arrangement, either direction, with structure: agreed terms, a weekly evening, obligations in the days between.

Not looking for anybody who wants to reintroduce me to a social life. Not looking to attend anything. And not looking for a person who needs mutual friends before they will meet somebody, which is entirely reasonable and rules me out.

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Which direction is on the table this month is not in the post, and asking flat out reads badly. That takes a conversation, and a conversation needs a room you can walk out of.

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