Log In Sign Up

The board · London · Curious

Six months in, and I expected to have worked myself out by now

Posted as know_by_now, 9 September 2026

Looking for
somebody experienced who is not put off by an unfinished answer
Experience
None. Six months on the app and a great deal of thinking.
Around
the east, London

When I installed this in February I assumed that a few months of reading and a couple of conversations would settle the question. It has not. I know more words than I did, I have a much better sense of what other people want, and I am no closer to a sentence that describes me than I was at the beginning. That is not a complaint about anybody. It is just not how I expected this to go.

Forty four, the east, no experience of any of this at all.

What I have managed to work out is narrow. Something in the idea of answering to somebody, in an ordinary continuing way, does something to me that nothing else does. Whether that makes me one of the words on this board I genuinely do not know, and I have stopped trying to decide it in advance.

So what I am asking for is a conversation with somebody experienced who is content to talk to a person who cannot yet label themselves, and who is not going to treat the uncertainty as either charming or a problem to be fixed by trying things quickly.

Not looking to be told what I probably am after two messages. Not looking to be rushed towards a meeting. And not looking for anybody who wants to be the one who works me out, which has been offered twice and made me close the app both times.

Reply to this post Replies go through your account, not this page. Nothing you send is published here.

What to have sorted before you reply

If this one reads like your own head rather than somebody to answer, the tactics can wait. These three all happen before there is a first match to get wrong.

Also in London

Every post in London →

Reading is free. Answering needs an account.

Put one of your own where people near you will read it, and answer the ones already up.

Open the app Already have an account? Log in