So here’s the deal – necking guy tells me in an email that he wasn’t sure I was into him, was having trouble reading me, and so while he wanted to invite me back to his place for pie (really, he’d made some pie from scratch the day before) he didn’t know how I’d react. [...]

Who necks anymore? I’m not even sure the phrase is still in use, but I was on a date last night and I’m pretty sure that’s what we did for a good 20-30 minutes. It was way too rated PG-13 to be called making out or fooling around. All the action was at the neck [...]

For our second date he asked me out to dinner, in his neighborhood, a long subway ride away from my apartment and an exorbitently expensive nighttime cab ride home. It seemed pretty clear to me that he was thinking I’d spend the night at his place. I accepted his invitation but I promised myself and [...]

It’s the dating story I tell most often: It was a few years ago and I’d been going out on dates 3, 4, sometimes even 5 nights a week for months and yet somehow no one seemed to make it past the 3rd or 4th date. And I wasn’t being picky. Really, I wasn’t. A [...]

A quick thought for this morning. Last night’s 2nd date (he was last weekend’s coffee date) was pleasant enough. Nice guy: Sweet, smart, polite, interesting.  All the good things. He’s just so wishy-wishy.  Maybe he’s intimidated by me?  I’ve been told I can be a little intimidating.  Anyway, I can’t be attracted to a guy [...]