Dating is the least of your worries. You don't want to advertise yourself that your "Needy" person, that turns guys away... OR even worse predate you into something you don't want to get yourself into. You don't want make yourself vulnerable at all.
Be yourself, just be friends to begin with.
BTW, I met my wife when I was 35, married 41 yrs old, And honestly, I am happy that I married her BUT it is just only paper. I married her NOT to make attorney, nor judges happy at all... I married her because of family, period. All of my assets is now forever belong to my family, nobody else, and that is why I married to make sure my wife and kids keeps them not creepies.