I’m 26 years old and haven’t had sex since some bad experiences in my teen years. Throughout my 20s I had thought the answer to my problems was the lack of both physical and emotional intimacy in my life. 

Lately, I’ve been putting in real work on Tinder and other dating apps and had several hookups with really wonderful women. We’ve had pretty good sex and also long talks about life and stuff afterwards. 

And it didn’t change anything. I’m still in the same spot I was before, just without this miracle cure goal to work towards. Not sure what to do now. I didn’t even really get much from the emotional closeness, which I always thought was the missing piece. Oh well