I took the advice and slowed way down on the texting with internship girl. We chatted one night this week after nearly 2 months now of nightly chats. Feels weird. However, she must've been given the same advice because she didn't bother initiating any conversations all week which is unusual. She was usually the one initiating our conversations all summer.
I tried texting her last Sunday night, but didn't get a response until Tuesday. She said she was sorry, was tired when I texted Sunday, and planned to respond on Monday, but forgot. We texted through the evening like we used to.
Later in the week I found out bad weather was being predicted for the night we were planning to meet up when she got back in town. So I texted her about it (she would've been at work at the time) and got a simple "oh ok" reply followed by no response to my follow up text. Likely just busy and forgot to text back like earlier, but it's kind of a big thing to just brush aside like that so I'll admit I'm getting a little worried.
Granted, she's in the last week of her internship and probably very busy so I'm staying optimistic, but this is still a change in usual behavior and I know people can get cold feet as meetups near, or it's worse and she is losing interest.
Aziz Ansari hits it on the nail with the problem with texting girls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WLrYE9HScY
It sounds like you're getting cold feet in all honesty to echo what gwailo said so if you aren't dating other girls already, you should definitely delete her number/texts and move on. For what it's worth (and I'm guilty of doing this myself at times), your life shouldn't revolve around waiting for girls to text you back so go off and do other things.
Yea, early retirement. Hanging it up. It was a good year, career year even.
I'd be down for that drawing tho.
You don't have to hang it up for the rest of the year if you don't want to but I think I a month or three does the mind wonders. Although it seems like your self-image issues have nothing to do with dating. If anything, I think
Shyness by Philip Zimbardo is worth a read for self-image exercises.
Shoot me a PM with an image of your choice. I can't promise Picasso work but I can promise that I won't idealize it.
For everybody in the thread that's feeling down, keep fighting. I was on the Tinder dating circuit for a year and a half. I had good times and creepy times.
It all led to me going on a date with my future wife. I just kept at it and it led me to the beautiful woman I go to bed with every night.
Don't give up, because the one date you choose to not go on, could be your future husband/wife.
Pray do tell about your creepy times since stories are welcome!
Jhoan said:
Tomorrow I'll go on another date and this will be yesterday. I didn't feel stunned or anything from this rejection funny enough. I'm numb to getting told the you're a handsome guy but speech these days. Any way keep fighting the good fight man, you're not alone. I think I'm I'm going to go have a drink at the nabe bar.
Yeah...so this this never happened but I did go to the bar alone to draw after that date and had a beer, The girl in question got upset that I had stopped texting her the prior day (Friday) since I told her I had a bunch of errands to do and didn't reply to her for the rest of the day. I should preface this by saying that she got angry when I stopped texting her for two hours on Thursday since I had to take a shower and head out so that was a bit of a red flag. Sometimes I don't like to text all that much with girls and will take my time replying.
Fast forward to yesterday and I wake up to another text from her stating that she didn't hear back from me for the rest of the Friday and then mentioned the heatwave we've been experiencing in the east coast. I replied to her apologizing for the previous day since I got busy and then told her I would be down to hang out. I never heard back from her possibly as "revenge" for going silent on her.
I might follow up with her again and pretend like nothing happened to set something up for next weekend but getting angry prior to meeting up makes me wary. So the cautionary tale from this is that some women take texting very seriously whereas others are laid back and don't like to talk as much. With those girls, lay down the plans and forget about it for a few days. It all needs to be played by ear.
In other news, I've been texting back and forth with a Puerto Rican-Italian girl who I'm slated to meet up with on Thursday evening at a par. It's been going well.
Another girl gave right off the bat after my initial message when I asked about a particular picture of her on a slide. At first I was wary because I thought it was a bot since it's rare for girls to give their number out in the first message. However, her profile was verbose, her pics and questions answered looked legit, and my fears were laid to rest once I received a text on the other end that was indeed human as conversation settled in. It led to a playing a guessing game on which playground she took the picture. This segued into setting up a date at said playground as suggested by her for this week after I figured it out as the reward for my efforts. I found that to be an incredibly smooth move as it's not something I will forget for a while.
Other than that, it's your typical back and forth with a few girls on OKC and following up with some other ones that I fell off with. Meeting up with an Asian girl from Tinder tomorrow to play
Pokemon Go so that should be fun.