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To want a bit of effort prior to a first date (Online dating)

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Acey68 · 02/11/2021 09:12

How much effort / communication would you expect before meeting someone for the first time?
Have a date planned for Thursday but starting to feel a bit underwhelmed by lack of effort although potentially this is the norm!
He asked me out last week and we settled for Thursday. There has been a bit of contact since then but over the weekend we were messaging Saturday morning and then he just stopped responding (He ignored me asking how his day was going). Still no reply by the evening the following day, so I popped him another message asking if he was ok? That also went unanswered for another day. After having 2 messages ignored over 2 days I just assumed I was being ghosted so said to him, are we still on for Thursday, no worries if not- just need to know. He responded straight away saying Yes Thursday is still good but no apology or explanation of lack of response. I said ok great, a couple of messages back and forward again, I asked him how his work day was going yesterday at 12pm and nothing back since. Would this put you off or am I really expecting to much here?

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arethereanyleftatall · 04/11/2021 08:03

It's interesting to hear you describe not responding to boring (sorry) texts as ignoring you. I've been on and off OLD fur two years now, so spoken to several hundreds of strangers, there's no way I'd bother responding to a 'what you up to today?' Text. It's dull when you've been on there a while. Funny banter texts, sure, I could go back and forth for hours before I've met: but 'what you up to?' 'What job do you do?' 'What's your favourite place?' Is just dull.

starrynight87 · 04/11/2021 09:00

What happened OP?

Thisisworsethananticpated · 04/11/2021 09:22

So I agree to back off
I had a guy that was into all the good morning , good evening
Then we had a video cal and he dumped me halfway through !! He made some excuse and totally ghosted me

Have the date and be cool 😎

burnoutbabe · 04/11/2021 09:27

I'd just text today to see what the plan was.

If you had arranged a date for today and the man arranged something else as he hadn't heard from you the day before, you'd think it a tad mad! As you had ahgreed to meet up tonight, just not the exact details - AND he reconfirmed once already.

Yes, its possible he doesn't want to see you but it seems rude to ditch the person for not agreeing the plan at some non agreed time beforehand.

I always had agreed a rough plan (after work at x place on x day) but would always wait for the actual day to confirm the meeting time - as then we had to have contact on the day to confirm time (which also indirectly confirmed that they hadn't changed mind in the interim)

AutumnTreesBloom · 04/11/2021 18:47

Any update?

comeasyouare1 · 05/11/2021 10:50

So did the date happen?

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