Step inside it's the Dating Thread 93

[SweetPotato1]

Looks like this needed to be kicked off again..

The Rules

1. The first rule about the dating thread is you don't talk about it with people you're dating.
2. Develop a thick skin
3. Do no invest emotionally too soon
4. It's all BS until it actually happens
5. Trust your gut instinct
6. People vanishing, lying & being generally weird is not your fault
7. You are the prize - they should be trying to impress you
8. If it's not fun- stop
9. Loo update is mandatory

10. No dating the thread

Or maybe I do want a serious relationship. I want respect, monogamy and commitment, but I'm not asking anybody to move in with me, marry me, make massive sacrifices for me........ I enjoy a bit of space as much if not more than the men who are so terrified of losing their space.

Oh well, good for you. You're not clearing your diary just for him. I agree with you. You shouldn't feel like this. Who else have you got? If H doesn't want to see me again after tomorrow night I'll be back to the drawing board. I'm staying off POF for the moment because I'd prefer not to know if H is on it.

I'm exchanging flirty texts with Journo at the moment. Think he's only after a FWB scenario but I can live with that. I have a number of men on the go and the ease with which I switch between them tells me I'm not ready for a relationship right now.

But I still haven't put Mr A off and I really must tonight.

Sorry Waving, I see that the lunch was today. I obviously skim read in my haste to post

Waving your update reminds me of the meh feeling I got when back from a titanic date with Popcorn.. Give it a day or two, try to pinpoint what went wrong and try addressing it with a clear head which I did not do would be my advice. Yes him choosing his friends over you on Saturday is not great but on the other hand you have seen each other twice already this week and there is always Sunday. I think you are playing this right, keep your eyes on the road and your head firmly on your shoulders easier said than done, I know

And message that MrWriter. If he is pouting because he read on here that you were also seeing someone else, then he is probably a bit of a jealous Frog for assuming you would be exclusive this early on!

Ahah, 314, happy to be apprentice McBitch, wielding my ceremonial sgian dubh of truth at untrustworthy candidates...

Good luck Twiggy!

Well, did you feel you were compatible with mrwriter? Something insouciant ha ha, fake insouciant, like ''well, I thought YOU were good company! :-p''.
or a very risk averse "happy new year mr writer''

Yes, I bet mr writer has a few irons in the fire too.

What has he written by the way? I nearly met up with a man until I found out he'd subtracted nearly a decade off his age, he was a writer and the books he'd written, omg, Princess Diana would have loved him. They weren't properly in print any more but you could still get his main one on kindle. Basically, he'd written a book about trusting your intuition which I do get. A bit like Marie-kondo writing a book about tidying up. (except MK's much more commercially successful).

You are even more of a rollercoaster than me, Waving, though once twiggy starts her current run, this thread will go off the scale!

Wow, good work waving

I know, we'll all be dating the thread when twiggy starts four nights at the Palladium !

at you all!

Good luck twiggy!

And good job to you waving!

I have another date to add to the blackboard: MrIkea is scheduled for Sunday night. Yay!

Loo update!! Mr sex has turned out to be a sex starved midget, every conversation ends up with a "naughty" conclusion and I am not sure how to getting away. On the plus side it turns out he doesn't actually live here and will be going back to uk tomorrow so no worries of a second date

Run, Choccy, run! SexMidget won't be able to catch you!

😂 at choccys loo update. Sex starved midget 😁. I agree with tanya finish that drink and get home safe, he sounds like a sleaze.
Thought long and hard about young stuff, and I'm ghosting.....he lives with his parents ffs. Nope.
Meanwhile Mr Bones and I have been exchanging lovely messages, although I revealed something quite candid about a former relationship in my last message (it was relevant to conversation), so I'm waiting to see if he thinks I've got too much baggage. I declined made up an excuse for a date with him on Sunday, but I'm now thinking he seems lovely and I am child free this weekend. It would be my first date since a traumatic breakup and I'm, in all honesty, very nervous.
Also Mr French is messaging and also very lovely chats, but his pictures are not clear shots, and I don't know his height (how do you subtly ask that) do love a French accent though....hmmm.

Well I think I have let MrA down gently. But am mildly annoyed that I attempted to lure MrCS out and he's on POF instead

He's not taking it well and now I feel like a shit.

Oh no mygast what has he said?

Grrrrr at men "not taking it well".

Do you know, or have you ever even HEARD OF, a woman being rude to a man she went on a date with who said "thanks but no thanks"?

No, but you get many more men than women behaving like entitled shitbags.