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Member
(05-19-2012, 05:50 AM)
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#8951
I left with my pride fully intact to say the least. So yeah, it is true that regret is always worse than rejection. It's like the Wayne Gretzky saying goes "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." I'm gonna keep doing it and not get discouraged. |
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(05-19-2012, 04:11 PM)
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#8952
Just got back from a date with the girl who was ill the first time we arranged things. It went really well, we had lunch, talked loads, walked around some shops and went to the park. She was really funny and cute and we've both agreed to do something more activity based next time though neither of us know what lol.
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Member
(05-19-2012, 04:17 PM)
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#8953
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Member
(05-19-2012, 04:33 PM)
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#8954
Dinner at your/her place. Make it with her after shopping together.
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Member
(05-19-2012, 04:38 PM)
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#8955
If you are having long phone conversations with people BEFORE you meet for the first time you are doing the exact OPPOSITE of what you want because you are trying to get to know them over a fundamentally low resolution medium. Same with instant/text messages, I think those are a complete waste of time before you go out for the first time. When I was setting up first dates I more or less never called them, never texted them, never chatted with them on IM, and never added them on Facebook. Send a few email-type messages to build some rapport, then ask them out. Remember, you yourself said this:
Originally Posted by http://www.timemuffin.com/post/23155309379/wheres-the-human:
Last edited by Argyle; 05-19-2012 at 04:41 PM.
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Member
(05-19-2012, 04:56 PM)
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#8956
Very true.
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Member
(05-19-2012, 05:44 PM)
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#8957
It should be a laugh whatever happens. |
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Member
(05-19-2012, 06:11 PM)
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#8958
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Member
(05-19-2012, 06:54 PM)
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#8959
Just do it. Don't think about what other people think, don't think about why you need to do something that benefits you, don't think about why you didn't do it today or skipped out on it. Just do it. Getting some sun, exercising, trading some of your wasteful personal time into productive personal time, is not demanding except for the fact that it isn't your current habit and honestly, that is really the source of that negativity. A resistance to change and effort. We invest in things all the time but rarely do we often work ourselves as we do our videogame characters, but we innately know that the more time we spend on them, the better and more experienced they become. You are the person you define yourself to be and you won't have to think a certain way if you already are a certain way. This is not a race and you quite literally have decades of life in front of you. Fill it with things and stories and frankly, everything else pretty much takes care of itself including women and relationships. |
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Member
(05-19-2012, 06:56 PM)
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#8960
Regret is a million times worse than rejection. That should be in the OP somewhere. So true.
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Banned
(05-19-2012, 07:20 PM)
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#8961
This is all beliefs that can be changed (the negative ones). The more you resist this notion, the more things will stay the same |
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Banned
(05-19-2012, 07:40 PM)
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#8962
My roommate is friendzoning himself hard with this one girl he likes and it's so hard to watch. I've told him to cut the shit with the FB chat and long text conversations, but he feels great about it all. I tell him, "Just ask her out and stop talking to her so much; use texts/FB as a means to arrange a meet-up," to which he responds, "I think it's better to let a girl get to know who you are and get comfortable. I don't want to scare her off."
Dude, no. |
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Member
(05-19-2012, 08:41 PM)
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#8963
Anyone here believe in getting a 2nd chance to approach someone you missed the first time?
Last edited by neptunes; 05-19-2012 at 09:25 PM.
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Member
(05-19-2012, 08:46 PM)
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#8964
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Member
(05-19-2012, 08:49 PM)
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#8965
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Member
(05-19-2012, 08:53 PM)
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#8966
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Member
(05-19-2012, 08:55 PM)
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#8967
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(05-19-2012, 08:56 PM)
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#8968
I just had a first date with a girl, it went alright for the most part. Got a second date for next week set up already and she texted me that she had a good time right after I dropped her off too! I didn't make any moves though and I'm nervous that she'll start seeing me as just a friend if I'm not careful.
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Member
(05-20-2012, 12:56 AM)
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#8969
We didn't know it was a punk night, so we just felt out of place. But ah well, was good getting out anyway. Would be nice to know some hip new places to go around this area though. |
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(05-20-2012, 01:23 AM)
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#8970
met a gorgeous girl who was hitting on me after a concert, she gave me her number and because Im a idiot and I because I drank too much I didn't save it.
On the plus its the first time a girl has called me cute and that felt awesome because I've been getting fit lately. |
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(05-20-2012, 02:49 AM)
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#8971
![]() It'd be for the best for him. |
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(05-20-2012, 03:39 AM)
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#8972
Those are the best dates. Don't over-plan a date. Leave some room for some improvisation, or in your case, an activity that you haven't done in a long time. She'll enjoy it.
Don't stress. Go for it on the next one.
Maybe next time line up a list of places you've never been to before and go there with your guys. It can be a fun activity and you never know what or who you might find. |
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Fifty feet tall, balls of steel, fires fricking laser beams from his nipples...
(05-20-2012, 10:29 PM)
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#8973
Personally, I think the two go hand in hand. |
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Member
(05-20-2012, 10:38 PM)
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#8974
Usually I'm against texting before you meet up with a girl from OKcupid.
Against my better judgment, I'd been texting this girl from OKC for the past week pretty consistently. She went for my number, and initiated all of the texts. We talked on the phone on four different days for 30 minutes each time, and texted all the time. Needless to say, I was looking forward to the date we had planned for tonight. I texted her a few hours ago asking if we were still on at the time we planned, just to confirm. She replied yes and asked if I had a facebook. In retrospect, I should have said something along the lines of "I just deactivated it" or "just deleted it" but stupidly I gave it to her and she friended me and with a smiley face asked me to friend her back. I have nothing embarrassing on there, I hardly post anything, just a song I'm listening to or what not. Anyway, an hour later she texts me saying her dad got into a car accident and she has to go to the hospital. Obviously there's a chance of it being true, but man I'm calling bullshit. I guess she saw my Facebook and decided I wasn't worth it. Most of my pictures on Facebook are old and I don't look like that anymore/dress better/am much more confident. Just a really disappointing experience and it feels like a kick to the face. We had great chemistry on the phone, I would have loved to see how it would have worked out in person -- but assuming that her excuse was a lie, it's great I got to see how shallow she was before anything happened. To top it off, she's currently "online now" on OkCupid. Forgive me for rambling, but I just despise Facebook, partly for this reason. I've had it now for four years and I'm a completely different person than I was when I signed up. Years of my personal life has been stored on this thing, be it from wall posts or pictures of social events, which even with my strict privacy settings people can somehow see, thanks to timeline. People change, something this should not be so readily accessible to anyone. Imagine in twenty years when we find a presidential candidate's facebook from when he/she was in college, filled with pictures of them doing a kegstand or some stupid shit at a frat house, which they obviously should not be held accountable for -- it could likely ruin their chances at getting elected. Apologies as I'm just rambling now, but I'm just in a sour mood after this whole experience. Going to take a break from Facebook and OKC if anything.
Last edited by kid ness; 05-20-2012 at 10:42 PM.
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Banned
(05-20-2012, 10:51 PM)
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#8975
I need to talk to someone about my ex
She says she loves me and that's why she doesn't want to date me, because she doesn't think she's good enough for me. She considers serious dating ~ marriage, and saying she can't date me because she loves me. She thinks that serious relationships don't have fun, and that our past relationship was serious. Part of her complaint a while back was that we never "did" anything, but half the time her interests and mine aligned but we didn't do those interest together because her aforementioned feelings about it. Like she couldn't show me to her friends because it was serious, or a dinner date was serious. A guy likes her for a while, and she wants to make him happy, but she doesn't love him. I told her, a relationship is two sided. She needs someone to make her happy, not just to make someone else happy. She says it would be better because she wouldn't feel like it's "serious" because she doesn't love him, and doesn't even want to have sex with him. She's like "well maybe if he wants to..." I just can't understand. |
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(05-20-2012, 11:13 PM)
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#8976
Wow the Hamster Wheel is spinning in that one.
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Member
(05-20-2012, 11:14 PM)
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#8977
I'd use this as a learning experience; how she was wrong for you, why things might not have worked out, and how you can use this whole thing as a learning experience for next time. In the meantime, stay positive. |
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(05-20-2012, 11:26 PM)
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#8978
GAF there is an attractive girl in my class that I been wanting to talk to, but considering there is only three more weeks left my time is running out. I think the best way to handle this is to ask her if she wants to study together...I guess I'm nervous and anxious about it at the same time.
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Banned
(05-20-2012, 11:31 PM)
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#8979
She says "she doesn't know how to be a real girlfriend" and says she wants a "shallow college relationship"
I suppose it's because she's turning 19 and I'm turning 23, and her fwb was a 25 year old drug addict. It's ironic because she doesn't love him, but she'd do stuff with him that people who are dating do. But she is okay with it because she doesn't "love" him, and she thinks that dating me will "waste your time" and how she isn't the girlfriend type. She calls herself a parasite. She thinks that after 3 years of dating you'll be engaged. She's like, you want a relationship, I want fun. Why is this so confusing? |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 12:53 AM)
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#8980
Question for you guys that are a bit 'further along' in this whole thing. Dating is not a problem for me. Making out, touching boobs, whatever. Been there, done that.
Since the beginning I've wanted a relationship. It doesn't have to be a relationship in title, I just want a person that is there for me for at least x, and y, if not x, y, and z. To be specific I have people I can talk to about anything, I have girls that want to cuddle, I've had girls that I can have emotionally empty sex with... I'm not happy. How much crushing disappointment should I expect? I assume there are lots of people that get what they need in relationships. Makes me wonder what I'm doing wrong. I feel the most emotionally attached to the girls I am only friends with, because we talk about all sorts of nonsense. The girl I last had sex with could die and I wouldn't care (this may make me sound like an absolute asshole, but it's the truth so why lie to NeoGAF). Yeah, the problem is at least partially me, but what is it. I can't figure out what's wrong with me or what I'm doing wrong. |
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Two Panda's Thumbs Up
(05-21-2012, 01:07 AM)
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#8981
You also can't go into a relationship with such selfish views. It's not about what the girl can do for you, but what experiences you guys can share. That's the meaning behind the whole "be happy by yourself, before you can love someone" thingy. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 01:11 AM)
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#8982
I'll try and find some places I guess.
Last edited by Xun; 05-21-2012 at 10:38 AM.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 01:12 AM)
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#8983
Also while I'm traditional in that I don't think dating is a fast-track to sex, for a lot of people it is. You can play the field until you find someone you click with emotionally and physically. |
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Banned
(05-21-2012, 01:32 AM)
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#8984
a lot of people go into relationships hoping to fill some void, and that's why they fail. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 04:33 AM)
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#8985
I sort of alluded to this novel of a situation a page back. Probably best if I just let it all out here...
So, I have this friend. Her and I went on a date a little over a year and a half ago. It didn't workout because I reminded her of some dude she dated a year before. Needless to say, she ended up going for that guy after things didn't workout between the two of us. I went about doing my own thing after things didn't work out. I'm not the type that "feels the need" to always be involved with someone else. I still remained friendly to her and talked whenever she approached me or whatever. During that time she sort of used me for attention to try and possibly make the guy jealous. I confronted her to figure out what her deal was. Things went south and we didn't talk regularly after that. Then things start to get weird last summer. She begins talking to me again. Like, talking to me all of the time and I wasn't sure where she was going with all of this. I ask her what's brought on her talking to me all of the sudden. She breaks down and tells me she feels really bad how it all went down. She apologized for "everything" and feels like she didn't give me a chance. Not sure what she meant by that so I kept her at an arm's distance. I still talked to her, though. Things continued to be weird. She got estranged from our circle of friends due to things unrelated between her and I. Although, I think what happened between her and I made a few of my friends distance themselves from her. She's still talking with me and I'm keeping it friendly. She invites me for dinner over at her place and I completely avoid the question altogether. I wasn't looking to get all that baggage of her's back in my life again. But, I still made an effort to try and be a friend. It stayed there for the majority of the year. Last weekend we were messaging each other and she wanted to hang. I was a bit reluctant but I agreed. We ended up going to play minigolf close to where both of us live. I didn't know what I was getting into but I just went in with the mindset to enjoy myself and have a good time with a friend. I picked her up because she lives close and was on the way. We get to the course and it feels different between us. We're breaking the touch barrier with playful nudges and her not knowing the right way to hold the club. She commented on how much smaller her hands are than mine. She compared hand sizes with me as we put our palms against each other. She held it and I had to break it. It was different. Overall, we played two games and had a blast. We both have a keen sense of wit and sarcasm at our disposal. We let it flow and enjoyed ourselves. After both courses were done she wasn't sure what to do. She wanted to play another round or go and do something else. We ended up going to get ice cream at a local place. I ended up paying for hers and mine. Since I had the idea and I wanted to see where this was going. Wasn't trying to buy her off by any means. Just the gentleman inside me, that's all. She tried getting me to not pay but I told her it's my treat. We ate our ice cream outside and talked for the next two hours outside. We talked a bit about everything. She told me things with that one guy were a really bad idea. I opened up to her about a couple of other experiences I had and made her laugh along the way, too. I figured opening up about that type of stuff puts you square in the friendzone and I was fine with that. Except after that she seemed to get a bit closer to me. We talked about religion, politics, other wacky people, and what our summer plans were. Somewhere along the way she tried figuring out where I was ticklish and challenged me to figure out her ticklish spots. I didn't because it was all a bit weird. I had no idea what lines we were crossing and I was playing it safe. She got hungry and bought herself a burrito from next door. It was getting a bit later in the evening and she was getting cold. I offered to take her back to her place. She said sure but didn't seem to want to get away from me just yet. Before we left she said I could come into her place and we could watch a movie. I told her thanks but I was up earlier and feeling a bit tired. I took her back and we pulled in. She invited me in again to watch a movie but it was feeling really weird. I declined and she said she wanted to do this again. I said sure but she's going to be a little over an hour away during the summer. Told her we'd work something out. I gave her a hug and went home. Since then her and I have been having really long conversations through texts. We never really did that before. She enjoys it and I find her funny, too. It all works out. She's mentioned to me a couple of times trying to figure out when we can hang out next. Things are a bit weird on my end right now but I told her in a month we can probably get together. But anyhow....I'm not sure what her intentions are in all of this. None of this should be happening but it is. I'm sorry for the short novel but I think in order to understand this all you may need the appropriate context to the situation. Just a side note: Please no PUA or B. Smith advice. That whole group is entitled to their opinion but it's not for me.
Last edited by Leeroy3101; 05-21-2012 at 04:37 AM.
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Flört
(05-21-2012, 04:43 AM)
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#8986
gaf what do i do when a girl smiles at me and keeps touching me
does she want sex |
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Banned
(05-21-2012, 04:48 AM)
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#8987
she wants to bang you
you could do the "be hard to get" thing and it turn into a relationship i guess.... |
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Flört
(05-21-2012, 04:51 AM)
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#8988
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Member
(05-21-2012, 05:01 AM)
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#8989
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Flört
(05-21-2012, 05:04 AM)
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#8990
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Member
(05-21-2012, 05:18 AM)
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#8991
Be careful not to get her pregnant during the threesome. That would turn into some horrible sticom, and who wants that? (I do, get it done, and report back in nine months to ask Gaf about who the real father is of this possible bastard child.)
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Member
(05-21-2012, 05:24 AM)
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#8992
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Member
(05-21-2012, 05:33 AM)
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#8993
Welll, I'm back in the dating game.
Broke up with my GF this weekend, we had been dating for almost two years. A very extroverted person and a very introverted person do't mix, no matter how hard you're willing to change yourself. Oh well, back on the market I guess. But first, some me-time. |
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(05-21-2012, 05:40 AM)
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#8994
Okay, I commented on a friends status, on Facebook, and I saw that her that a cute friend of hers posted as well. Now, just for a little back story, I do not talk to the mutual friend that we have in common. She only added me because we went to high school together. How do I approach the situation? I know I should be honest about my intent, or I would be forced into the friendzone. So should my first message be something like "hey, I find you attractive and I would like to get to know you"? Or is that being so honest that it comes off as creepy?
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Member
(05-21-2012, 06:29 AM)
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#8995
I'm confused. Do you still want to be with her? Because you sound conflicted, and maybe you are, which is understandable.
Regardless, I think you should first figure out what you want before you try and interpret what she wants.
The general rule of thumb seems to be messaging women you don't know on facebook is a bad idea. You almost always come off as creepy and it just doesn't work, at least from what I can tell. Unless of course she acknowledged you somehow in her post, then it might be acceptable. Still sounds like an uphill battle though.
Last edited by luckyboyceo; 05-21-2012 at 06:32 AM.
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Member
(05-21-2012, 06:43 AM)
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#8996
Hurrrgh. Ex-fiancée just asked me "how are you?". On Draw Something (I know). Hmm. Personally I am doing better emotionally from it and it's been about 2 months. I'm kind of surprised she's saying anything to me through it. I guess I'll respond and see where it goes.
I guess cutting her out from Facebook made her actually wonder about me. Weird. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 06:46 AM)
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#8997
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Member
(05-21-2012, 06:48 AM)
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#8998
Like Prologue said, I wouldn't bother responding either. Would you really be interested in talking with her again at this point? Don't you think that will just make things worse? It sounds like you've been making some good progress emotionally and I'd hate for you to set yourself back a few steps, which is what usually happens in these kind of situations. |
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Member
(05-21-2012, 06:52 AM)
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#8999
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Member
(05-21-2012, 07:04 AM)
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#9000
It's backwards, I know, considering she was the one that left you, but there was probably still a void that was let when you guys split, and that was her attempt at filling it. At least, that's my interpretation of why that happens anyway. I agree though, more often than not it leaves me worse than I was prior to her reaching out. At some point it's obviously okay to reach out, but shit have a little bit of courtesy and give me some breathing room at first. |