QUOTE(WisdomTrumps @ May 28 2020, 12:23 PM)
Disclaimer: I am single, but here's my thought.
You might be putting too much pressure on yourself, which is not necessary a bad thing if you use it to improve yourself.
Back to the topic, essentially modern dating is a number game in which you will have better chance of meeting someone if you know more people. This is because both girls and guys are spoiled with "choices". Other posters mentioned about being more financially capable, I do agree with this as well because it can gain you access to more venue to know more people.
And about texting, generally girls today are terrible at conversation (sorry to any ladies here

). They are used to guys being the initiator, that they rarely put much effort into it. BUT from my experience, if someone is interested in you, she will try keep the conversation going! If she don't, then move on, don't further feed the need of attention of some people.
These are my experience, and hopefully you can avoid some of my mistakes while I was at your age.
Good luck!
exactly, if the girl is interested, with your somewhat okay conversation skills (as long as dont be like the girls who give one liner or give close ended reply, make life difficult for the girls to reply), the girl will just keep the conversation going and eventually go out with you.
in contrast, even if you have exceptional conversation skills, if the girl is not interested, it's a dead end too, when you feel things are not progressing / she's not responding well / feels like talking to wall / feel like one sided effort, you're not wrong, your gut feeling is warning you and is often right, move the fuck on and dont look back. Find next target.
One thing to add is, when the spark is fizzled out with the girl, and she's gonna leave, dont stop her, there's really nothing you can do to get back someone who doesnt feel for you anymore. You're only losing your dignity if you try hard to make her stay, since she's gonna leave anyway, why not save yourself that dignity and effort?
Take that humiliation of her leaving you positively and use it as motivation to further build yourself, with enough disappointment translates to unwavering motivation, which is the state i am in now. I found my ultimate financial goal and is working hard towards it, and it's working, i really have to thank those girls for pushing me this far to gain this ability. Got money already, scared dont have girls meh? You can play as many girls as you want.
Of course, progress is still going very good for the girl i'm currently pursuing right now, in my recently opened thread, just hope i wont get the same bad ending as i usually get, but if it happened, i wont feel a thing since im already numbed