Rahx, experience is the answer to diminishing fear. Keep trying, keep putting yourself out there. I know how it is to live in your head and calculating all the variables but, when you're into someone and someone is into you all those things go away and you flow. This is the human experience angle that will never be translated to online dating. Make a point to be out there in society doing what you may love, and hopefully meeting people in the process. Exposure and experience.