Last night at a party, I, for the first time in my life, asked a girl out on a date. She accepted my proposal to dinner and gave me her number. I felt quite happy to see things go so well, but I also felt overwhelmed with the task ahead of me. I have a bunch of questions I was hoping to get help with.
1. Although we met for the first time last night, I think she is someone I would really like to persue a long term relationship with. I'm quite aware of the fact that my infatuation is at least partly due to my ... well, desparation. Like I said before I have never been with a girl before. How can I make it seem like I'm not as desparate as I am? I'd like as much as possible to ease into this and scare her away.
2. For a first date, I was thinking of taking a simple little picnic with some semi fancy food and a dessert to top off the night. Would this be appropriate? If we were eating outside, it would be much more relaxed, and the views would me much better. Tell me what you think.
3. Are there any not too tacky ice breaker games/activities to do, or is just plain conversation the best way to go?
4. I've heard thousands of times: "wait a couple of days before calling her". Now, I don't want to fool around and play games, but is there really any truth to this?
5. Am I taking this all too seriously? I do understand that a first date hardly means anything sometimes.
Well, feel free to post whatever first date advice, or any other sort of dating advice that comes to mind. Anything, and I mean
anything would help. Also, maybe even hearing some first date experiences might make this easier for me.
Thanks a lot TFPers.
