I was married and my circle small for a really long time, but recently I've been getting out there a lot more and met lots of new people. This is all new to me.
Recently a friend (aquaintance really) organised an outing and in the spirit of getting out there , I went along despite not knowing most of the people on the trip. It was a good decision, had a great time.
However, really early on, the man accross the isle from me on the coach struck up a conversation (lovely) and proceeded to tell me how he hadn't had a girlfriend until he met his wife when he was mid 20s, how happy they are, how fortunate he is (she wasn't there) and how blessed they are with their DC. Showed me pics. It was all very nice, I was able to make suitably cooing noises, ask about how they met, the DC etc, a nice easy chat, but is it usual to share like that from the first words of a conversation?
I already knew he was married and I'm quite a bit older than him, so I don't think he was protecting himself from me 🤣
He also seemed very comfortable socially all weekend, so I don't think his early lack of GFs was because of any real social issues, although he did say he'd been to an all boys school.