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*Different girl than the other thread*
Sooo... I may or may not be on the fast track to a relationship here. I guess we'll see. She definitely seems to want one (she's been flirting pretty aggressively for a while now, and we spent most of last night making out), and she's made it rather clear that she is not the sort of person who makes a move carelessly (claims to have never had a one night stand, or any sort of casual sex). I'm going to play this by ear and see how it goes.
As to the how? Well, integrating into a new, mixed gender, social group that's actually introducing me to nice people, rather than hurling me at floosies just to laugh when I fall flat on my face (or just blindly hoping to blunder into one going it on my own), certainly helped. Meeting a girl who I find attractive, and who seems to have mistaken my generally standoffish cluelessness when it comes to dating etiquette for some sort of "mysterious enigmaticism" which she, apparently, finds appealing, helped as well. She also thinks I'm "adorable," for what that's worth. :lol:
The problem? I'm pretty much "single as f***." lol
Don't get me wrong. I'm totally okay with being in a relationship. It's just been a loooooong time since I've really been with anybody. I'm not even really sure if I know how to do it anymore.
I've gotten pretty used to being a "free agent," not having to answer to or plan around anyone else. I'll pretty commonly go more than a week before checking in with friends, for example, and that's obviously not really going to cut it with most women. Changing that's going to take some getting used to (assuming this actually turns out like it looks, of course).
The other issue? The various reasons why I didn't want to date right now really haven't gone away. Thankfully, we both live at home (she moved back in after her last relationship went south), so she can't really take issue with that. However, I'm still pretty much broke, which complicates things as far as trying to hang out on the regular goes. I just can't afford it. Living arrangements, of course, are going to make it awkward and difficult to hang out, or be in any sense intimate, on the cheap as well.
Eh. "You only live once," I suppose. I'll give it a go and see what happens. :shrug:
Sooo... I may or may not be on the fast track to a relationship here. I guess we'll see. She definitely seems to want one (she's been flirting pretty aggressively for a while now, and we spent most of last night making out), and she's made it rather clear that she is not the sort of person who makes a move carelessly (claims to have never had a one night stand, or any sort of casual sex). I'm going to play this by ear and see how it goes.
As to the how? Well, integrating into a new, mixed gender, social group that's actually introducing me to nice people, rather than hurling me at floosies just to laugh when I fall flat on my face (or just blindly hoping to blunder into one going it on my own), certainly helped. Meeting a girl who I find attractive, and who seems to have mistaken my generally standoffish cluelessness when it comes to dating etiquette for some sort of "mysterious enigmaticism" which she, apparently, finds appealing, helped as well. She also thinks I'm "adorable," for what that's worth. :lol:
The problem? I'm pretty much "single as f***." lol
Don't get me wrong. I'm totally okay with being in a relationship. It's just been a loooooong time since I've really been with anybody. I'm not even really sure if I know how to do it anymore.
I've gotten pretty used to being a "free agent," not having to answer to or plan around anyone else. I'll pretty commonly go more than a week before checking in with friends, for example, and that's obviously not really going to cut it with most women. Changing that's going to take some getting used to (assuming this actually turns out like it looks, of course).
The other issue? The various reasons why I didn't want to date right now really haven't gone away. Thankfully, we both live at home (she moved back in after her last relationship went south), so she can't really take issue with that. However, I'm still pretty much broke, which complicates things as far as trying to hang out on the regular goes. I just can't afford it. Living arrangements, of course, are going to make it awkward and difficult to hang out, or be in any sense intimate, on the cheap as well.
Eh. "You only live once," I suppose. I'll give it a go and see what happens. :shrug:
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