I guess when I talk about dating I mean both the "meeting someone I don't really know for dinner" and the "hanging out with someone I have already known, but now we just hang out as just the two of us".

The first one I don't like to do at all. Just can't create an interest in a person if I am nervous. And hanging out on a "date" with someone I don't know makes me extremely nervous. I just want to get out of there.

The second one is bothering me at the moment because it is sort of what I'm stuck in. I'm very inexperienced with relationships so unless a guy calls me his girlfriend I don't know what is going on between us and that makes me very nervous. So nervous I become stressed and depressed from worry. So that is why I don't like dating. I don't like not having any idea what will happen to us in the future since I can become very invested in someone that I like. Someone told me to "check" my feelings for this guy, but I don't know how. When I like someone I like him. I can't change that by telling myself not to.