No prospects here either. Met up with an old high school friend who I hadn't seen for a couple of decades and he treated me far better than any of my Match.com dates. In fact, I'm a little concerned he may be interested in me--thought I may have been getting a bit of a vibe..............oh, and he's married. Figures.

Daphne - I run a lot too and that just seems more important than selling myself online in what would essentially feel like an unpaid part-time job. I am still not sold on the artificiality of the whole process as most of it seems to be visually driven and is symptomatic of our ADD culture. I believe in random chemistry moments and until it happens I am increasingly okay solo.

Persistent Guy messaged me last night to confirm our plans for tomorrow. And can you believe it? He actually called it a date! That's a first lol. It'll be really interesting to see how this pans out considering he's been wanting to get together for so long. I'm doing my best not to overthink it since it's a little bit of pressure.. hope I can live up to the hype! But all I can do is be myself and it'll be what it'll be. We barely know each other really so I find myself wondering what his motivation is to keep pursuing me regularly.. am I a challenge? Is he genuinely interested? But like I said gotta stop overthinking and just see.

Good luck!

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this paragraph makes me lurve you, but as I've already declared lurve to Force10 and possibly Sunny, I better stop before I get labelled the discussion board tart

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Can't wait for dinner with my awesome friend tonight. It'll be a good chance to bitch about our love lives and lack thereof
Still no word from the Non-Texter since Sunday night. So that's 4 days. But I'd bet anything he'll email me tomorrow evening and ask if we can get together tonight. I won't be anyone's last minute option. So I'll just ignore him, and if he emails again, I'll tell him what a turn-off it is to have a guy act sooooo interested in you, but not put any effort into contacting you until 2 hours before he wants to get together, and expect that I'll drop everything to do so. That'll either get him to straighten up or move on; I don't care either way. I'm gaining a lot more self-respect in that area of my life. Oh, and I canceled the FB friend request
Not making much forward progress with the other guy. He seems to like me...I mean, we text constantly, so that's a pretty good indicator...but still no mention of meeting. It's only been like a week since we started chatting...is that a normal time frame? I don't know what's considered normal anymore

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There's no set time frame to go by when you're chatting with someone. Though in my experience, the longer you chat without meeting, the more likely it is that he's keeping you hooked in case his other prospects don't pan out. It's happened to me a few times, so I prefer to meet within a week if we communicate regularly. Of course location and schedules play at part in that, and meeting sooner rather than later doesn't rule out the above situation either.
Which I think has just happened to me again. I haven't heard from 'Single Dad' basically since Monday. I sent him a text on Tues, as he was working in my neighbourhood that basically said "hey, if I knew you were going to be around here for a little while I'd bring you a coffee or something" to which he replied "No, too many bosses around. But thanks." I've been in his line of work, and understand that yes, the supervisors do drive around and check up on you. So I responded with "I hear ya! Well then, stay cool and enjoy the rest of your day!" And that was it. Haven't heard anything at all from him, and to think on Sunday he was "supposedly" really into me, couldn't wait to see me again, was really interested in getting to know me better, etc etc.

So, it looks like I don't have any prospects either.

I don't know if I should text him or not. I don't want to seem too eager, since he did mention he does enjoy 'persuing' women he's interested in. Sigh...wow, I really suck at this.

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I wanna watch the way you creep across my skull."

Exactly!! This is what's driving me nuts!! I'd rather hear the truth than just be left hanging forever. That's more upsetting to me than a straight-up rejection. Do guys think they're just being "nice" by disappearing instead of actually telling the truth?

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Well, if he's a major conflict-avoider, just be happy you found it out early in the relationship rather than after you'd become more attached!

haha. Nothing wrong with a little random, multi-user, digital flirtation, blue...