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Guy friend maneuvers: stick it out or bounce?

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First time posting to this forum and I'm looking forward to the interaction!

So, I reconnected with a girl I haven't seen in a couple years. Basically just trolling my black book one night, shot her a text and low and behold…she's single and interested in catching up over a drink. So far, so good. rarely works, but never say never, haha.

Now to clarify, we've had a sexual relationship in the past, but for reasons irrelevant to this post, I will spare you details. Lets just say, we dig each other. So it was nice to see her be very responsive when I just took a leap of faith and texted her. Ok, getting to the point…

So last night she invites me out with a group of her friends. A mix of guys and girls, however, it ends up being all dudes and one girlfriend. My date is the hotter of the two and I know these other guys didn't expect to see me. Let the cock-blocking begin! Now, I'm not adverse to a little competition, but given the fact we hadn't seen each other in years, I figured no reason to go all out just yet and start competing with these guys. She knows what I'm about. So I decide to read the situation and hold back a little.

Anyway, as the night goes on and everyone's pretty buzzed by this point, it seemed like just when we'd be having our moment, another guy friend would swoop in to kill the momentum. She was friends with the DJ and even he kept leaving his table to come down and get a twerk session with her every ten minutes it seemed like. It was all somewhat comical to me.

After hours of drinking, dancing to 80's music and watching this girl revel in the attention—I was over it. Her friend had already bounced, as I'm sure she also got tired of all the attention going one way. So, I decided it best to skip the after hours and leave early too. I can't help and feel like maybe I made a mistake by leaving early though. As I was in my Uber on the way home, I shot her text to thank her for the evening one last time. She replied with "Yaaay!?"…which was confusing to say the least.

Here's my question: Should I have stuck around and seen how the evening would play out? Do you think I let the competition get the best of me or did I bounce at the right time and maintain interest? I'm hoping that by not going all in right away, helped me to maintain some type of strong position and let her know I'm not just in for a hook up. That's what I hope. I've slept with this girl several times in the past, so I didn't feel the need to go super hard on the competition.

Okay, thanks for reading! Have at it. Please be respectful.
 

Smith

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You probably shouldn't have agreed to go out in a group setting in the first place, so you leaving early is actually not a bad move. I would leave early if I was you. She wants the attention and all the guys around her are "orbiters".
 

Bboy100

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What Smith said. It seems like she just wanted attention and validation and nothing else. I doubt she was interested in hooking up again to begin with. Otherwise, she would have taken your invitation more seriously, and met you one on one. Next her.
 
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