Residual Parenting Commitments, The Last Turkey In The Shop, Boiled Bunnies, Men With Fish and Stolen Condoms. Dating Thread XXXI.

[FlorentinePogen]

Get on with it, daters.............

Hi Kirsty, cop sounds good.

Ugh, deleting my OKC profile as well - was just recommended this charmer as a 'Quiver Match':

"honest guy who needs an honest girl, hate liars and cheats,so if ur a lying cheat, jump aff a bridge, or suck an exhaust pipe, or get ur fat maw tae sit oan your face and suffocate ye, ya cunt. For all you good girls don't let wot i said make u think i'm nasty or anything, iam a good guy, honest."

I'm going back to bed.

Yoga, he sounds great....the West of Scotland guys just can't be beaten for romantic patter.......

yoga I think he may have some issues he needs to resolve before embarking on dating lol

yoga. Baahahahahahhahahahaahhahahahahahahhhhh at that profile.

bantababy you must Xmas name change to bantababy

my understanding of recent events is this

Bant: (worried) lets slow things down a bit...
Artist: are you seeing anyone else? (Because that must be the only reason for slowing things down... )
Bant: no
Artist

So the artist seems to think that now you've shagged & she's stolen your baby juice you should increase the amount of time you spend together and plan ahead. Well. That's not unreasonable... But it's a gradual thing....However, you don't really seem to be on the same page with this one.

Whatcha gonna do banta?

Oh god Yoga...has it really come to that!!!Sigh

but he's a good guy...honest!

In his own lunchtime!

Snape - any marriage proposals yet?

Ike "In his own lunchtime"?

Yeah as in his own mind.

You can now see why I get dumped before actually meeting folk on line - just confuse the bejeesus out of em!

Ooh, hold on. I'll check.

No, but one of the comments is, 'Tattoo "artist?" They're butchers, and their customers are shallow, self-mutilating, narcissistic fools. Makes me physically ill to look at these'.

I think he likes me! .

More sighs and its effing Crimbo too-god I feel DEPREEEEEEESSSSED

Snape - it was more a case of :

Artist : "maybe we can see each other Friday or Saturday?
Me: Friday sounds good, we could go and have a meal in town, or watch one of those DVDs at yours - and you haven't seen my place yet, lots of choices
Artist : Okay, Friday a DVD at mine, Saturday we spend at your place, Saturday night dinner out in town
Me: Lets do Friday night and work out Saturday later on. We're spending all our time together at the moment
Artist: Is this going too fast for you?
Me: It's going fast but I like you, lets see if we can find the right level of fastness
Artist: Ok.
Artist: Can I ask, are you still going on Match dates?
Me: Nothing since I met you.
Artist.......

Nothing from her till she texted me a photo of her hand just now where she'd written 'I need a hug' on it. Sweet but odd.

Im not sure whether its good or bad-I see your confusion bantabb. Whats her relationship history?

btw Sorry to come in on a thread that I haven't contributed to....I just haven't got the courage (or impetus) to go on a dating site. Bit put off that I found my ex skulking (who left last year after 20 years together) on Match.com. I read his profile, knew the reality and then worried about the truth behind everyone else's! Irrational, I know.

But if you do meet a man with a French name who works in the film industry, run for the hills! Fake Barry would be a better prospect.

Good luck though everyone - you all seem to have it very sussed.

I took a quick look at men in my area, and several look like Gerard Depardieu

Oh dear Punk I know what you mean....its a jungle out there sometimes! One of my exs has managed to carve 12 years off his age on OKC. Lol!

i dont think thats at all irrational santasapunk

ike - so was 'lunchtime' not a typo? i've never heard that!

snape - if you were in grade school he would be pulling your hair! Seriously though, why do people bother to post comments like that? It's not as if anyone is forcing them to get a tattoo, or suggesting they be paid for on the NHS.

bant - honestly, this Does Not Sound Good. The "i need a hug" is her getting insecure and anxious...and that's without you actually coming out and saying, "we're spending too much time together and moving to fast, please just chill." Based on the conversation above, you're not quite giving her straight answers either which isn't helping - when she said "is it moving too fast" you really should have just said yes. I'm sorry if this all sounds mean but I feel like this is heading for a bit of a messy ending.

it's tricky, I think, to find the best way to deal with people who get all needy & insecure..you'd hope that a person in her 40's would have enough personal insight to give herself a bit of a talking to and try and get a grip??

Yoga - yeah I see your point, but I'm trying to not do the whole 'meet her, sleep with her after a whirlwind, tell her things are moving too fast once I've filled my boots' cliche.

She is nice, I do like spending time with her, I'm just finding that 3 hour conversations every night and her planning on spending all of our free time together is a bit much. I want to see her and get to know her better but also not see her or speak to her every minute of every day. That might in itself be okay but combined with the condom thing and the hanging up the phone when I try and get a word in during the calls, is a bit much. So yes I should be a bit more assertive without upsetting her.

Whenever I tried to talk to her like grownups the other night though, when I was round hers, she would kiss me to stop the conversation.

Bant ...There are times when integrity goes out of the window and you have to run for the hills.

Do you want one of us to phone her and pretend to be your wife?

Bantababes Gerard Depardieu.

This.

Yoga I particularly like the use of the vernacular in "ya cunt". That has to be in the next title thread

she's 'love bombing' like a religious cult:o