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I met this (western) girl at a cocktail like three weeks ago. Slim, cute, friendly, in her early 30s. I noticed interest but we spoke for a relatively short time.

Second time I see her. House party. We stick around each other 80% of the time. As expected, for social-circle reasons, that party turned out to be a pre-selection bomb for me. More interest from her. We leave together and end up at a bar. We hold hands but she's kind of shy/awkward getting past a certain limit. On the way back, I notice her beginning to go cold from auto-rejection (as nothing else had happened so far). When we separate, I go for the kiss. She dodges me. I chuckle, point it out to her and pull her to me from the waist: we make out for some minutes. I have bad logistics (she's tired, it's kind of rainy and cold, I live far away) so I tell her hey let's see each other again.
I get home, sent her a short good night msg and wonder how did my experiment go (first time I push the envelop and take a leap of faith like this, let alone with someone from social circle) .
The next morning, she answers my polite msg with another one. Some hours later she msgs to set up a date a couple days later.

Third time I see her - first time 1 on 1. I choose a casual restaurant near my place - and my place is where we end up, making out. Escalation wall: Playfully went for her bra three times with different degrees of success, the third one (I had cupped her tits from below her bra while laughing) she kind of got mad/offended at me. Here it began to surface she sees me as very high value and that I might try to "play" her, not take her seriously, etc. . . I saw her eyes, she looked hurt; I hugged her, kissed her cheeks and forehead, I really felt a bit bad for her. When it was time for her to go back home, I escorted her to the bus stop and she held my hand on the way - this may have been a mistake but given the circumstances I complied. Then at the stop she felt better and started giving me French kisses like crazy.
Here started another thing: she began whatsapping every single day: to ask when is she going to see me again, do small talk, send me kissing smileys, etc. . . I try to keep the conversations to a minimun. I tease her that normally girls get clingy like this after sex, not before (nothing but the truth!). She playfully (?) threatens me away from an "open-relationship" plan. I just reply some funny face to that and leave it there. . .
We arrange to see each other the end of the week (like 6 days later). Then days later, she messages me to just go to her place for dinner.

Fourth time I see her, second "date". She cooks me a meal, we have very nice sex, she really has a nice body, she offers me to sleep over, we have great sex the next morning. Here it surfaced that, partly from what she told me, despite her age, she's not so experienced - there's a lot of things she hasn't done much, or is not used to, finds over-stimulating, etc. . . Seems like she comes from a dry spell that's more than a year long. In fact, despite all her moaning and panting and frantic grabbing me and kissing me. . . I couldn't get her to come; she just wouldn't get past a certain point.
After, she msgs me asking me once more when will she see me again. . . I tell her the next weekend. She says she's busy, pushes the envelope for the Wednesday. I don't find it practical. Eventually things fall into place for the Wednesday.

Fifth time I see her; third "date". Dinner at my place. Lots of sex. She asks me if I all I want is sex, I tell her the truth: if all I wanted was sex, I'd just pay for it. She likes the answer. In all, she leaves happy. . . I don't escort her to the bus stop.
. . .but then she pushes the envelope to date me the Sunday too! I say I don't know. . . she doesn't take it nicely. Has kind of "nexted" me since then.
Stopped contacting me altogether and instead started posting on FB these things girls like to post - like a picture of the sunset at the beach and some text "blah blah blah people who don't deserve you, blah blah blah people who really deserve you".

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Anyway, not sure if she's going to come back or it really is over. In previous years I'd be chasing like a lost puppy but I'm really forcing myself not too.
It's obvious she wants (or wanted) a full-fledged boyfriend-girlfriend relationship and I feel like I'm putting the foot on the brake; from the moment I first kissed her it seemed she was making a deal too big too soon out of everything. I don't mind NOT seeing other girls while I see her, I'm very busy but also (and unlike other girls) I don't see her being able to deal with it; it would just hurt her too much. . . however, I still want much less committment than she does.

Any relationship experts here?
Anything I could have done differently?
Anything I can do if this were to continue?
 

Black

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I'm not exactly feeling "outcome-independent" here. After all, I also come from a long dry spell (albeit shorter than hers).

I probably shouldn't. Seriously, can girls "smell" I've been f*cking??? The two days after I slept over at her's I've been getting all these IOI - from random girls on the street, shop assistants, social-circle. . .
 
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Black said:
I'm not exactly feeling "outcome-independent" here. After all, I also come from a long dry spell (albeit shorter than hers).

I probably shouldn't. Seriously, can girls "smell" I've been f*cking??? The two days after I slept over at her's I've been getting all these IOI - from random girls on the street, shop assistants, social-circle. . .

1) they sense the confidence you have
2) you are more attuned to their IOI's
3) You unconsciously are making more eye contact because it worked.
4) Yeah there IS something in your pheromones....
 

Black

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Eye contact and pre-selection are two things that have been giving me such a boost!

On another note, I just got my "commit ultimatum"! huhu!
Only three dates into the relationship! I wonder how much my fault it is. . .
 

JimmyB

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Black,
You'd have to decide what it is you want from this girl. Now it's kind of too late to go back but if you really did want a relationship with her there's nothing wrong with just meeting up with her again. This site advocates not meeting up too much at the beginning but they're not 1 size fits all rules. But, if she was pretty much calling the shots and is so quick to move on after you say "no" one time, it probably wouldn't have led to too much. It was probably just casual and that was the extent of where that was going, maybe a little bit longer. Unless you want to commit to a relationship escalating that quickly, which probably isn't in your best interest based on your post.
 

Black

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Ok, this is what happened. . .

She cut communications, then got back to me some days later requesting a "serious relationship", I said "it's not going to work", she said "ok. . . a relationship" (meaning not open, but without the pressure the word "serious" entails for me), I said "hmm fine". Then we were together again for another while. . .

Briefly, this happened a handful of times, until mid-march, I lost interest, blundered and said something that offended her when she got needy and demanding. . .
More specifically, I went to take care of her when she got sick (I then began to notice compassion had replaced attraction on my part) and like three days later - I think she spoke to some feminist friends of hers or something - she has another confidence crisis. . . which pissed me off.

It kind of falls under something I read around here:
Because of her years-long dry spell and (culturally) her restrictive background, she was quite inexperienced, and so she needed to turn it into something "serious" (as I moved quite fast for her). Low abundance on her part and emotions all over the chart.

Recently, she contacted me because of a problem she had so it looks like we might, after all, stay in touch as friends (which is how I prefer to end things).
 

JimmyB

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Looking back at this, it's important that you draw a line in your relationships. For yourself and for her. So in this case, the girl seemed really damn horny. But she also doesn't want to come across as a whore in her own mind, so you guys should be "a couple" if you're having sex like this. This is on you to dictate. You need to find what works for you and communicate it to her. You can say something like "I like you and want to keep seeing you, I'm just actually really busy this week. How about we meet next Thursday instead?" Offer another date. Or you could jut say "I want to keep seeing you but this is going a bit quick for me. How about we just meet next Thursday?" If she gets upset or anxious, it's because she's horny but she'll come round eventually. Set your own pace.

If she contacted you (for whatever reason) she's probably looking or willing to get back together. It really depends what you want. If you want to hook up with this girl, you could make it happen. Don't let drama get the best of you.
 

Black

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Thanks, any of those two replies would've been better than the (mostly) short answers I was giving her. I was too worried she was trying to reel me into some kind of "formal commitment" and that she wasn't really attracted.

In fact, a guy I told this to also thinks it's all excuses/rationalizations and she's looking for sex.
It's not that she wasn't going on and on about this whole "relationship" thing - it's basically me reading it at face value.

. . . interpretation which implies I have to operate in a space between the short/frustrating answers I was giving her and really leading her on (which was my biggest fear).

. . .and yes she did contact me once again towards last weekend, directly asking to meet. I tried to make it a coffee on Sunday to see what she wanted - and she flaked and requested a Fri/Sat thing. She's had some serious nervous breakdown some weeks ago and I'm not sure she can hook up with no strings attached; I'm afraid hooking up would be yet another burden that she can't handle. I'm not crazy about that either; I'm looking to meet other girls. I guess I'll have to let her down as kindly as possible.
 
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