Is it normal to never be kissed

There are myriad ways it could be awkward, from bad breath to bumping noses to too much tongue or too-tight lips. I know, I know The best you can do is be mindful and sensitive to your own needs. Do I want to go any further? What if your first kiss is not so awesome?

Kissing takes some practice, and no one aces a new skill on the first try. Because I can pretty much guarantee that your kissing life will only get better from there. Keywords dtfo Kiss and tell. When I was growing up it might have stalled my vocabulary a little, but there are other means of learning things. My main interest is cooking — I feel the same escapism in the kitchen that I imagine a lot of other people find in reading a book.

I love being outside, walking, sitting in the garden, painting, drawing and photography. As a child I just never really had the opportunity; my family was interested in other social stuff. We went to lots of museums. I felt unique — it was something different from everyone else. One Tuesday in June in , I fell down playing cowboys and indians in the school playing fields. I was eight years old, and I broke my arm so badly that I was in hospital for two weeks.

For the next 18 months after that, I was in and out of hospital having physiotherapy. Because of that I never got on a bike. I was scared of breaking my arm again, it was that bad. Still need reassurance that you're not the only one? Look no further than the Smitten community. When Ariane asked you guys how long you've been single, plenty commenters, some older than you, said they'd never had a boyfriend.

And check out this post from years ago when our former blogger Joanna told us about her first kiss. She says she was old, but she totally wasn't! There are hundreds of comments and a huge range of ages. Sure, some people were younger than you are. Plenty were older too, or were still waiting for their first kiss, just like you. For the record, I was 15 when I had my first kiss and I thought it was gross.

I didn't do it again for years! It got better, of course, but if I had skipped that first one and waited until I was older, I might have liked it more. I didn't get my first boyfriend until I was about 21, and I don't think that was particularly old.