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  • amyjo
    Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 24

    How should i act on the first date?

    well i've been talkin with this guy for about a week. we've known eachother for a few months but we never actually talked alot or hung out. but now we are. and his younger sister is completely awesome. and we are starting to hang out. were going to my guys game tonight! i cant wait. we made signs for it too! lol =)

    so yesturday i was talkin to his sister and i was saying me and my guy should go to the movies. and she talked to her bro at their home and he wants to go. and its gonna be a date. it will be me and my guy and her and her bf. a double date! im excited. but how should i act on the date. bc i need to continue to convey the fact that i like him. but how. bc a movie is a great way to be with him and to silently convey the fact that i like him. and were not an official couple yet...but this night could make us become one. idk.

    but any ideas as to how i should act on my date?????....
  • sourpuss
    Veteran Member
    • Dec 2006
    • 3581

    Just be yourself.
    Movies are tough dates because you can't talk or interact much. But make sure he knows that you're happy to be there, maybe suggest going to a coffee shop after or something. Ask him questions about himself, that's the easiest, I think. You can get to know him, and he'll get the message that you care to want to know more about him.

    Smile at him and make eye contact when he looks your direction.

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    • WildChild
      Banned
      • Sep 2008
      • 14142

      Sourpuss has said just what I was thinking. Be yourself and movies are kind of hard to interact in.

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      • SinisterUrge
        Veteran Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 370

        Originally posted by amyjo
        im excited. but how should i act on the date. bc i need to continue to convey the fact that i like him. but how.
        You're going on a date with him. If that doesn't convey "I like you" he's thicker than a castle wall.

        *Smile, giggle, and flip hair when he's being charming and intelligent.

        *Cross your arms and show him your poker face when he's being a jerk (teenage boys become jerks quickly and several times a day. If they were adults they'd all be Bi-polar).

        This is technically called 'operant conditioning' but women have been brainwashing men with it for several millenia.

        Good conversation topics:
        *Pop music (most teens like something played on the radio today)
        *Movies you like from the last 3 years.
        *What do you like to watch on TV?
        *Mutual athletic/artistic/scholastic interests?
        *Countries you'd like to visit

        Then keep tabs on him. How does he treat people he isn't dating? Any disgusting habits? Did he steal his sneakers from a drifter's corpse?

        Usually after 2 or 3 dates you know enough about somebody to tell if they're somebody you actually want a relationship with, or just somebody who looks cute but you have no connection with.

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        • newhere808
          Veteran Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 541

          Originally posted by sourpuss
          Just be yourself.
          Most important first date advice ever

          A lot of people get so caught up in making a great first impression they forget that the person their dating typically wants to know them, not some impressive persona created for a first date.

          Guys are huge offenders in this regard from what i've seen, and by the third our fourth date when their actual selves start to show up it can be quite jarring to the lady their with.

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          • Futureboy
            Veteran Member
            • Nov 2009
            • 331

            I dont agree with sinister urge. your too new dating to socially condition a man. He may this this is controlling

            Be yourself, smile, look him in the eye, not too much

            A double date is difficult to be intermate. Just touch him leg or arm in the cinema and he'll probably take the que to hand your heand or touch you on the leg or arm. If it feels like a big gap between you when it's only an inch sihgs are nt good you need to touch

            First dates generally it is what is not said is more important if it is right it will happen

            just enjoy yourself and remeber he's probably nervous or anxietous too. Not that he will admit it

            Fb

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            • Guest

              you are an amazing young woman. I'd say "just be you", but there's no "just" about you.

              be who you are. if he's at all sharp he'll see how great you are!

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              • SinisterUrge
                Veteran Member
                • Feb 2008
                • 370

                Originally posted by Futureboy
                I dont agree with sinister urge. your too new dating to socially condition a man. He may this this is controlling
                Teenagers are the ones most in need of conditioning :P

                And I'm not suggesting you go Manchurian Candidate on him and program him to kill somebody every time he opens a deck of cards with five queens in it. The boy has to learn dating etiquette and he is (sub)consciously hoping to win your approval. The poker-face/smile routine is simple behaviorism.

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                • amyjo
                  Member
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 24

                  ...and i think its a "date". his sister thinks its a date and so do i, so im assuming when she talked to him bout the idea...he got the point too. but what if he didnt. his sis is calling us a couple. and was like: maybe i can find another couple to come too. so she is considering us to be a couple but does he?? i mean were not technically a couple but shes thinking of it as a date for us....and so do i. so if we think that, wouldnt he?? im not sure what he thinks...obviously. lol

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                  • newhere808
                    Veteran Member
                    • Dec 2009
                    • 541

                    Originally posted by amyjo
                    ...and i think its a "date". his sister thinks its a date and so do i, so im assuming when she talked to him bout the idea...he got the point too. but what if he didnt. his sis is calling us a couple. and was like: maybe i can find another couple to come too. so she is considering us to be a couple but does he?? i mean were not technically a couple but shes thinking of it as a date for us....and so do i. so if we think that, wouldnt he?? im not sure what he thinks...obviously. lol
                    I would say you shouldn't overthink it, as it may give you more stress about the situation. Just stay relaxed and take things as they come. Certainly put your best foot foward if you'd like to do so, but just be you regardless. You'll be able to tell how he regards it by his body language shortly into it.

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