How (or if) to move forward?
Lots of shit is happening all at once. I’ll just let you know where I’m at before moving on to the situation at hand.
The last couple of weeks have been pretty damn good.
I’ve started subscribing to the Stylelife Academy. I’m working on the first program “Conquering Anxiety.” The missions basically have me doing things that I had already thought of on my own, like identifying public hang out spots and frequenting those places. But for some reason even though I thought of it I had never done it before. I guess having to check in with each mission has a psychological effect. I’ve already found a couple of places that I intend to frequent. (A couple of bars and a Barnes and Nobles/Starbucks)
Now, I’m an avid reader and it has been perpetual habit for me to spend two or three hours each night reading. The past two weeks however I’ve gone out almost every night. I still find time to read. I just do it in small chunks now instead of two or three hour marathons.
Anyway, while doing this I have made about two approaches. Neither were successful except that my view of the approaches changed as I was doing them. I found myself qualifying her to determine if I should keep going.
Anyway while all this is going on a new situation develops on its own.
It started during lunch at work last Wednesday. I’m sitting there talking to this student worker from India and my friend Deb. Indiagirl is cute and super smart. But she is also married. It’s not a problem for me that she is married. But not knowing much about her culture I’m unsure how to approach her. While the three of us are talking the conversation turns why I’m not seeing anyone. I say the usual shit about how I’m not really looking.
After lunch I hear Deb on the phone saying, “He’s got a gottee and blond hair. No girl it’s blond he done dyed his hair…”
I look around and say “What the hell are you doing?”
She just looks at me and keeps talking.
About an hour later Deb hands me a number with a name on it. WTF? I didn’t ask for this. But what the hell. I call the number which is a work number and talk to the girl. Apparently she works with one of Deb’s friends.
We’ll call her BDG (Blind Date Girl).
We talk for about two minutes and BDG gives me her cell number. I call her again that night and we talk longer. BDG is an RN. I find out she is eight years older then me. (I’m 28 and the last girl I kissed was eight years younger then me. It balances.) BDG has three kids and is divorced. Her mother also lives with her. I figure what the fuck? I’m not being too picky right now. We make an AFC style date to go out for dinner that Friday. Being a blind date, dinner sounds like a good option to me and I couldn’t think of anything else at the moment. So I just suggested the first idea I thought of. We make plans for Friday because that’s when her kids go to their dad’s for a week.
Date in hand I go to Barnes and Nobles to play chess. While I’m there I approach a girl sitting at a table doing homework. I approached with the Movie Moment opener and when I ask to sit down she says yes. We talk for a couple of minutes. She’s dividing her attention between me and her work writing stuff down as we talk. Something clicks inside my mind. If she isn’t interested in meeting me I’m not interested in meeting her. I tell her it’s a pleasure meeting her and then I go get my ass kicked in chess. I’ve analyzed this approach and have determined that I did two things wrong. First the opener requires a lot of confidence and I feel like I looked nervous. Second, she was studying to be a nurse (why do I keep running into nurses?) and I’m trying to get out of the medical field. Without even realizing it I started criticizing what she has chosen to do with her life. I didn’t even become aware of this until I thought about what I said later.
Friday night I get dressed and go out. We had planned to meet there. When I meet her the first thought that runs through my mind is frumpy. Whatever… we say hi, we actually shake hands (I’ve always thought shaking hands with a girl was funny) and go inside. I should say here that at this point I already knew that I wasn’t very attracked to BDG. But being that I was already there I decided, fuck it I’m going to have fun. We talk over dinner, mostly BS. I don’t remember if I tried any routines here or not. Mostly we talked about books and movies and a little philosophy. I think I did most of the talking.
After dinner I asked her if she could play pool. She said “Not well.” I said cool cause I really can’t either. So of course that’s what we go do. We get in my car and I drove over to Flanagan’s, which is a bar. Walking in I talk to this guy whose wearing a pink shirt with the word GEEK across his chest. I tell him that’s a great shirt. It turns out GEEK is with a band that’s playing.
We go in get a couple beers and find the pool tables. There’s a group of girls playing at one of the tables. (I find out later they’re all with GEEK’s band.) The other table’s balls are all screwed up. A couple of balls are missing including the cue ball and there were two 14 balls. The girls at the next table gave us one of the two 8 balls they had. So we had two 8s, two 14s and no cue ball.
We played anyway.
There was enough of a difference between the 14 that we could use one of them as a cue ball (As long as we didn’t strike.) We played like that making up our own rules until the girls at the other table finished and gave us their cue ball. When we finished we moved to the other table and played a more normal game of pool. About half way through I accused her of being a pool shark. She laughed and denied this. When we finished I handed the cue ball to these two guys who had been waiting at the other table. These guys had been standing there for about 15 minutes. They were well dressed, good looking guys but they had these stone expressionless faces. They weren’t having fun. They weren’t even talking to each other. I wondered if that’s how I looked to most people. BDG even commented on the difference between how they stood there waiting and how we had played anyway and had fun. It occurred to me then that being able to adapt to a situation and have fun to spite whatever difficulties are present might be a DHV.
The band started playing and we sat on some bar stools and listened. I was looking for an excuse to escalate kino, (There virtually was none at this point) and I noticed her hands kind of balled up in her lap. She was wearing a couple rings so I did the Finger Ring routine. This is the first time I’ve actually used it with someone I’ve just met. It went really well. She was interested in what I was saying. When I finished the routine I just kept her hand in mine. (Her right hand in my left, so we were reaching across each other.) She left it there. She didn’t make any sign at all that it might be weird that we were holding hands.
After a couple songs she wanted to go somewhere else.
I asked “Somewhere more quite?”
“Yeah,”
I mentioned this other bar called Tiki which was down the street. I knew that it would have fewer people there. She thought that sounded good so we left.
On the way to the car she suggested that we just go to her house.
What?
I stayed reactionless. I just say okay.
“Oh,” she says “Nothings going to happen though. I can’t promise you anything. I mean my moms there so we’ll have a chaperone.”
What?
I can hear David D in the back of my mind saying [She’s thinking about having sex with you]. We were just getting to the car when she said this. I turned toward her smiling and said “I’m just amazed you think you could get that far.”
She laughed. “It’s usually the guy who…”
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
I return her to her car then follow her home. As we’re walking to the door I’m actually thinking “Shit, could this turn into my first foolsmate?”
Well, no.
Her mother is nowhere around which I was thankful for. She fixed us some crown and coke and we sat on the couch with my arm around her watching Rodney Carrington on Comedy Channel talk about his penis.
I didn’t know how to escalate it any further and I had to be at my second job in the morning. So after a while she walked back out to my car with me.
Outside I decided to try to kiss her. She did not hesitate. Her mouth parted and I got a little tongue. She told me I was good at this. I said she was too and kissed her again. Then we said goodbye and left.
We talked briefly on the phone the next day. She asked me if I wanted to see 1408. And I did. No, really… fuck her I wanted to see the movie. So we went Sunday. We sat with our hands folded together through the whole thing. I dropped her at her house and went home afterward.
I know my problem.
It’s a question of morals. I keep thinking that I’m an asshole. I think that she’s probably going to want more of a relationship then what I’m actually looking for. This is a problem that I faced with another girl. That relationship ended almost as soon as it began when she asked me if I didn’t feel about her the same way she felt about me. I tend to back off when I become afraid that I’m going to hurt someone emotionally.
So I backed off. I did not call her again until Deb told me she believes that BDG wasn’t really looking for anything serious.
So I called her again. She wants to see me but not during a week that her kids are around. This is exactly what I wanted to hear because I have no interest in ever meeting her kids.
So here is where it stands. It will be a week before we see each other again. What I’d like is to make things move toward a Fuck Buddy relationship. I’m just not sure how to move it in that direction.
Anyway, whatever happens in this situation I’m still going out alone most nights this week. We’ll see if anything else develops.
The last couple of weeks have been pretty damn good.
I’ve started subscribing to the Stylelife Academy. I’m working on the first program “Conquering Anxiety.” The missions basically have me doing things that I had already thought of on my own, like identifying public hang out spots and frequenting those places. But for some reason even though I thought of it I had never done it before. I guess having to check in with each mission has a psychological effect. I’ve already found a couple of places that I intend to frequent. (A couple of bars and a Barnes and Nobles/Starbucks)
Now, I’m an avid reader and it has been perpetual habit for me to spend two or three hours each night reading. The past two weeks however I’ve gone out almost every night. I still find time to read. I just do it in small chunks now instead of two or three hour marathons.
Anyway, while doing this I have made about two approaches. Neither were successful except that my view of the approaches changed as I was doing them. I found myself qualifying her to determine if I should keep going.
Anyway while all this is going on a new situation develops on its own.
It started during lunch at work last Wednesday. I’m sitting there talking to this student worker from India and my friend Deb. Indiagirl is cute and super smart. But she is also married. It’s not a problem for me that she is married. But not knowing much about her culture I’m unsure how to approach her. While the three of us are talking the conversation turns why I’m not seeing anyone. I say the usual shit about how I’m not really looking.
After lunch I hear Deb on the phone saying, “He’s got a gottee and blond hair. No girl it’s blond he done dyed his hair…”
I look around and say “What the hell are you doing?”
She just looks at me and keeps talking.
About an hour later Deb hands me a number with a name on it. WTF? I didn’t ask for this. But what the hell. I call the number which is a work number and talk to the girl. Apparently she works with one of Deb’s friends.
We’ll call her BDG (Blind Date Girl).
We talk for about two minutes and BDG gives me her cell number. I call her again that night and we talk longer. BDG is an RN. I find out she is eight years older then me. (I’m 28 and the last girl I kissed was eight years younger then me. It balances.) BDG has three kids and is divorced. Her mother also lives with her. I figure what the fuck? I’m not being too picky right now. We make an AFC style date to go out for dinner that Friday. Being a blind date, dinner sounds like a good option to me and I couldn’t think of anything else at the moment. So I just suggested the first idea I thought of. We make plans for Friday because that’s when her kids go to their dad’s for a week.
Date in hand I go to Barnes and Nobles to play chess. While I’m there I approach a girl sitting at a table doing homework. I approached with the Movie Moment opener and when I ask to sit down she says yes. We talk for a couple of minutes. She’s dividing her attention between me and her work writing stuff down as we talk. Something clicks inside my mind. If she isn’t interested in meeting me I’m not interested in meeting her. I tell her it’s a pleasure meeting her and then I go get my ass kicked in chess. I’ve analyzed this approach and have determined that I did two things wrong. First the opener requires a lot of confidence and I feel like I looked nervous. Second, she was studying to be a nurse (why do I keep running into nurses?) and I’m trying to get out of the medical field. Without even realizing it I started criticizing what she has chosen to do with her life. I didn’t even become aware of this until I thought about what I said later.
Friday night I get dressed and go out. We had planned to meet there. When I meet her the first thought that runs through my mind is frumpy. Whatever… we say hi, we actually shake hands (I’ve always thought shaking hands with a girl was funny) and go inside. I should say here that at this point I already knew that I wasn’t very attracked to BDG. But being that I was already there I decided, fuck it I’m going to have fun. We talk over dinner, mostly BS. I don’t remember if I tried any routines here or not. Mostly we talked about books and movies and a little philosophy. I think I did most of the talking.
After dinner I asked her if she could play pool. She said “Not well.” I said cool cause I really can’t either. So of course that’s what we go do. We get in my car and I drove over to Flanagan’s, which is a bar. Walking in I talk to this guy whose wearing a pink shirt with the word GEEK across his chest. I tell him that’s a great shirt. It turns out GEEK is with a band that’s playing.
We go in get a couple beers and find the pool tables. There’s a group of girls playing at one of the tables. (I find out later they’re all with GEEK’s band.) The other table’s balls are all screwed up. A couple of balls are missing including the cue ball and there were two 14 balls. The girls at the next table gave us one of the two 8 balls they had. So we had two 8s, two 14s and no cue ball.
We played anyway.
There was enough of a difference between the 14 that we could use one of them as a cue ball (As long as we didn’t strike.) We played like that making up our own rules until the girls at the other table finished and gave us their cue ball. When we finished we moved to the other table and played a more normal game of pool. About half way through I accused her of being a pool shark. She laughed and denied this. When we finished I handed the cue ball to these two guys who had been waiting at the other table. These guys had been standing there for about 15 minutes. They were well dressed, good looking guys but they had these stone expressionless faces. They weren’t having fun. They weren’t even talking to each other. I wondered if that’s how I looked to most people. BDG even commented on the difference between how they stood there waiting and how we had played anyway and had fun. It occurred to me then that being able to adapt to a situation and have fun to spite whatever difficulties are present might be a DHV.
The band started playing and we sat on some bar stools and listened. I was looking for an excuse to escalate kino, (There virtually was none at this point) and I noticed her hands kind of balled up in her lap. She was wearing a couple rings so I did the Finger Ring routine. This is the first time I’ve actually used it with someone I’ve just met. It went really well. She was interested in what I was saying. When I finished the routine I just kept her hand in mine. (Her right hand in my left, so we were reaching across each other.) She left it there. She didn’t make any sign at all that it might be weird that we were holding hands.
After a couple songs she wanted to go somewhere else.
I asked “Somewhere more quite?”
“Yeah,”
I mentioned this other bar called Tiki which was down the street. I knew that it would have fewer people there. She thought that sounded good so we left.
On the way to the car she suggested that we just go to her house.
What?
I stayed reactionless. I just say okay.
“Oh,” she says “Nothings going to happen though. I can’t promise you anything. I mean my moms there so we’ll have a chaperone.”
What?
I can hear David D in the back of my mind saying [She’s thinking about having sex with you]. We were just getting to the car when she said this. I turned toward her smiling and said “I’m just amazed you think you could get that far.”
She laughed. “It’s usually the guy who…”
Yeah, yeah, yeah…
I return her to her car then follow her home. As we’re walking to the door I’m actually thinking “Shit, could this turn into my first foolsmate?”
Well, no.
Her mother is nowhere around which I was thankful for. She fixed us some crown and coke and we sat on the couch with my arm around her watching Rodney Carrington on Comedy Channel talk about his penis.
I didn’t know how to escalate it any further and I had to be at my second job in the morning. So after a while she walked back out to my car with me.
Outside I decided to try to kiss her. She did not hesitate. Her mouth parted and I got a little tongue. She told me I was good at this. I said she was too and kissed her again. Then we said goodbye and left.
We talked briefly on the phone the next day. She asked me if I wanted to see 1408. And I did. No, really… fuck her I wanted to see the movie. So we went Sunday. We sat with our hands folded together through the whole thing. I dropped her at her house and went home afterward.
I know my problem.
It’s a question of morals. I keep thinking that I’m an asshole. I think that she’s probably going to want more of a relationship then what I’m actually looking for. This is a problem that I faced with another girl. That relationship ended almost as soon as it began when she asked me if I didn’t feel about her the same way she felt about me. I tend to back off when I become afraid that I’m going to hurt someone emotionally.
So I backed off. I did not call her again until Deb told me she believes that BDG wasn’t really looking for anything serious.
So I called her again. She wants to see me but not during a week that her kids are around. This is exactly what I wanted to hear because I have no interest in ever meeting her kids.
So here is where it stands. It will be a week before we see each other again. What I’d like is to make things move toward a Fuck Buddy relationship. I’m just not sure how to move it in that direction.
Anyway, whatever happens in this situation I’m still going out alone most nights this week. We’ll see if anything else develops.