Taking pressure off of dating and relationships

It’s difficult for me to date since 1) Im

A single mom with a 5 year old

2) I live with strict parents and culturally, women can only move out if they get married.

I’ve been struggling in the dating scene. I’m 24 and have been in two relationships, adding them up i haven’t been single in 10 years. (My BD and I dated since I was 14)

With my past relationship (not BD) it felt extremely rushed. We were still getting to know each other and within a month he had already met my family and things were very serious from the start. I forced myself to stay in that relationship bc he had already met my family as well as my daughter. (Mainly bc my parents enforced it)

Now I’m trying to date, but my parents mindset is: dating is bad they add to the pressure by saying I need to find someone I want to marry (by going straight into a relationship) which puts stress on me. I’m still young and I don’t want to get married anytime soon, I want to get to know other people instead of going into the mindset of “okay, I need to figure out if we can get married based off of so and so”

They also believe dating is for women that sleep around.

I see dating/relationships full of pressure bc it means I have to find someone to spend my life with. Mainly bc I’ve been raised this way.

-How can I keep my dating life on the DL?

-They watch my daughter when I go out, so what do I tell them when I go out?

Any advice for this situation?

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