Dating thread 173 - Winter is coming - 'cuffing' is optional

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1. The first rule about the dating thread is don't talk about it with people you're dating.
2. Develop a thick skin.
3. Do not 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. Know your worth.
8. If it's not fun, stop.
9. Loo update is mandatory.

10. No dating the thread. 11. Treat others as you'd like to be treated 12. Any relationship you have that could get ruined by having a conversation about your feelings, standards and/or expectations wasn't really stable enough to begin with 13. The things you choose to ignore/ tolerate now are the reasons you will break up in the future

Link to Info on Dating Websites & Apps www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3514717-List-of-Dating-Site-Info-Dating-Thread

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Optional: Please give your irons (potential dates you are talking to) nicknames like Mr Scottish. Initials are allowed (Mr S) when you are an item. 😘

Well he's just asked me if I like poetry so might be an evening at home after all. I actually do know a fair bit about poetry but yeah....

@shitwithsugaron. Erm yes just opp child free times, illness, hols etc

It should be easier now as I would invite him to my house etc. Obviously his kids have come first and he works very hard both great traits. And at the start I prob wasn’t really ready ( I told him all this)

On date - he's really gorgeous but no convo at all

Is he just quiet ? Where is the date x

Lovely dinner and rain-soaked snog with Mr Train. Razor was wielded but not actually required sadly. I shall sharpen it for next weekend though when I shall evidently be his 60th birthday present on a weekend away 😍

Witwoo @TigerDater!

@TigerDater sounds great xx

Aw that sounds fab @TigerDater !!

And a promising start @Jane1978xx

@eyebrowsofinstagram hmmm could be first date nerves?

@unambiguousbeard. I don’t even know what to say to that?! 😂

A good weekend to all.

Date 3 with Mr Dog didn't go so well.
I can't really say why on here but some of the niggles I had are now bothering me more.
However, we are still talking. And he has explained some things.
But I will need to think about whether I can have a relationship with him.

@KhaleesiTargaryen it's our 3rd date- awks as he has to stay at mine but still no touching or talking.

So awks as texting was amazing so was 2nd date

@eyebrowsofinstagram if there’s not touching or taking what are you doing ?

@EchoElephant Probably better to know these things now before you get too committed so you can either manage them or not progress the relationship

I was wondering that too @Jane1978xx

Hope your night wasn't too terrible @eyebrowsofinstagram

@EchoElephant I would leave it with mr Dog. Read rule whatever it is. The one about the things that aren't right now will be the things that split you up. It's so so true.

Back to weeping and wanking again

I seem to have accumulated a selection of irons. There is mr Poetry as previously mentioned who is I think is Italian so I've forgiven him. Mr ilovemykids who seems very sweet and is very attractive but lives in a far away seaside town. Plus he keeps banging on about his kids. Guess what, I've got some too but I don't need to talk about them! Anyway I'm giving him a chance to chat about something more interesting. And mr ott I think I'll call him. He is bloody gorge, huge beard, huge muscles, loads of tattoos. Messaging is sparse but I woke up this morning to "I want you. I want you to be mine" errrrrrrrerrrrrrrrr. Actually I'm my own. Although annoyingly it's also quite swoony. He's a yank maybe they're like that? @MoreNiceCereal ?? He's also ex us army. I'm a pacifist. If there's a demo against a war I've been on it. I even object to red poppies. So that won't be happening. Probably. Still at least I'm enjoying the interactions and finding it all amusing.

Oh @NoMoreWeepingAndWanking I'll give you a post coital hug

@unambiguousbeard it was just the logistics of it. I would only meet someone when my daughters with her dad and he wasn’t having her regular due to moving etc and he had his kids more than usual. And he was ill and away for work and I was on hols for 2 weeks. But it was prob better I wasn’t ready at the start. I spoke to him on line the first night I joined OLD 😂 just for a look.

I'm on my own all weekend. I'm so in need of being held. I feel so lost right now.

No I was wondering what @eyebrowsofinstagram was doing on her date. Just sitting in silence. I u sweat and the difficult logistics of meeting someone. We all have busy lives

I u sweat?? I meant I understand

@unambiguousbeard it will be easier now hopefully.

@NoMoreWeepingAndWanking do you have a friend to visit or could you go on a nice day out ? Keep yourself busy. I also decorate when I’m on my own xx