

Woman here who gets approached from time to time… casual chats are fine and low-key expressing interest is ok. The least stressful approaches I’ve had are when a guy sends his buddy over to expression interest. So you can appease your parents by asking a friend to make the approach on your behalf, maybe.
Wow, thank you for this. I’m not feeling so good about having moved to Proton now. I’ll check out Mailbox.org and look more into Mozilla too.