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texting a girl after you've set up a date

mkivtt

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Question. I've read about abundance, using texting with the goal of setting up dates and when necessary to build rapport.

So if you've got a date, do you go cold and stop texting a girl? Case in point, today is Tue, and I'm seeing her on Sat (assuming she doesn't flake yet again). Of course I'll text her Sat morning or early afternoon to ping her we're still on. But until then? What about unusual circumstances, e.g. you know she wasn't feeling well - do you ping her to see if she's better?

Do you go cold, and maybe make her wonder "oh so now that we've scheduled something the rapport texts stop and he goes AWOL"?
Or do you text maybe every other day or two, just some minor flirty rapport stuff?

Of course, the more you text, the more you run the risk of saying something stupid or her deciding you're too boring/needy. Then again maybe I'm not quite out of the AFC mindset of pinging her every now and then.
 

Thedoctor

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Hey mkvitt,

Yup, in the past I've tried both ways (Occasional ping texts and none at all) and if there is that big a gap (from Tuesday to Saturday) without you sending at least one text, it has a very low success rate. I actually had one girl ignore me altogether for a second date (first meet was a really short one but did go well) because I didn't contact her until the day of. So I would definitely recommend a couple ping texts during the week. At least one on Thursday in this case.

As far as the unusual circumstances, in your example I'd probably say something like "Hope you're feeling better...." rather than "how are you feeling". That way you brought it up, and if she wants to talk about it she can. Just make sure you limit the conversation to a few messages.

Make sure to read all the posts on "Flaking" and "Texting" and in no time, you will be a texting Guru!

Yours,
-Doc
 
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razir110

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A good one is to text her the day before to change the time like by 1 hour. So it doesn't sound like you are confirming a date or something and you don't come up as an insecure guy. And I'm not really sure if it's that important to text her in that gap.
 

Franco

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Hey mkivtt,

I would check out Marty's post about this topic here as I think it will help answer some of your questions.

- Franco
 
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