I'm really liking this current discussion and it's 100% applicable to what I'm experiencing currently. Here is a step by step breakdown of last night's date with an emphasis on when we arrived back to my place. Please critique this with your harshest eye as I am committed to getting better and not leaving pussy on the table.
Last night was my second date with a 40 year old American born Asian woman, divorced, no kids met on Tinder. She works as an ad exec for a medium sized company in OC California. I'm 43 years old.
First date: Last weekend, met for a quick Starbucks as my schedule was crazy and it was the only time we could meet. Date lasted for about an hour, good banter, little bit of flirting and I was the one to cut things short. Texted her a couple days later and we setup a date for happy hour yesterday (Weds).
Second Date: We both arrived at approximately the same time, I greeted her with a hug and we sat on the patio of a bar/restaurant. I had a beer and she had a wine. We shared a small plate and I sat directly next to her. Our banter and vibe were exactly like our coffee date where she was laughing and playfully slapping my arm at my wise ass comments. I was also touching her on the arm, the back and moving in and then away the whole time. Note: We still have not kissed as I am saving that for back at my place.
After about an hour and when our drinks were down I suggested we stop by my place for round two. She at first was hesitant and the following dialog ensued:
Me: "Hey, let's get out here and drop by my place and you can have one of my legendary dirty vodka martinis" (we had talked about this on our coffee date)
Her: "Ok...oh you mean NOW?"
Me: "Yeah, it's right on the way home, it will be fun"
Her: "Hmmm.....ok, but I have a condition"
Me: "Oooh, a condition. This I gotta hear"
Her: "Do you have anything else to munch on since I'll be drinking more?"
Me: "I'm sure we can find something..."
From there she followed me home and once inside I took off my shoes at the door and she asked if she should take her boots off too which I said yes to. She then asked to use the restroom and I put on Pandora on the TV.
After she came out of the bathroom I showed her my alcohol collection which seems to be a hit with everyone who comes over. I went to pull the Grey Goose out of the freezer and she goes "oooh you have Fireball, I love that!" I said, "yeah it's good but check THIS out" I had just purchased a bottle of JD Tennessee Fire and said we should try it together and we can see how it compares to Fireball. She liked that idea and I poured us both a large a amount and we went to the couch.
After a couple of minutes of sipping and chatting I pulled out my ipad where I showed her some photos from my portfolio.
NOTE: I'm a semi professional photographer and do a lot of landscape, sunset, architecture and urban style photography. I play up the artist vibe for all it's worth!
She began looking at my photos and I would give quick back stories on each. Like just about every other woman who checks out my photos she's really impressed and amazed asks....as if on cue "Did you really take those??"
After about 10 minutes of her looking at my photos (and me touching her the entire time) I wait for a high point where she's smiling and really feeling one of my photos and go for the kiss. She's a little surprised at first but kisses me back (with tongue). Her body language is a little stiff and I can feel she's still guarded so I hold off on going caveman. We continue to kiss and my hands and slowly roaming around her arms, shoulders, hips while my forearm is grazing her breasts. I move kissing her neck, collarbone and when I get to the top of her breasts she gently pushes me back and sits up in her seat. I start talking again and don't miss a beat. We chat for another five minutes and I repeat the process. During the second pass I'm able to rub her breast over her shirt but she still hasn't "let go" and was still stiff in her body language. She then says that it's starting to get late and she needs to go".
It's here where I'm not sure what to do. I don't want to act needy and beg her to stay but I don't want to act too indifferent. So I go for one last makeout and her hand is on my stomach so I move it to my crotch and her facial expression is something like "whoah" but she again pulls away with a "Uggghhhh!!" while laughing and then stands up and puts her boots on. Just my 10 cent psychoanalysis is that her ASD was too strong to overcome.
I walk her to her car and tell her to text me later which she does when she gets home thanking me for the fun night.
Sooo....here are my observations and what I may have done wrong. Feel free to add to this list!!
1. LMR or really resistance to anything but a kiss was due to her age and advanced anti slut defense. Looking back I have sealed the deal with every woman under 30 who came back to my place. Every. Single. One of them...
2. I begin making out and escalating too soon after we get back to my place and the drinks didn't have a chance to loosen her up yet. At the same time, I'm always insecure of waiting too long to make a move so I tend to jump into the cold pool early so to speak.
3. When we began making out I wasn't as physically aggressive as I could have been. I've been burned by cavemaning in the past and the phrase "Don't scare the cat!!" keeps running in my head while I'm kissing a woman on my couch.
4. I'm horrible at convincing them to stay when they've decided that they need to go "before things go too far..."
5. Some of you may say to ditch the first coffee date and go right for drinks. While I usually do the bar date model the above scenario has occurred on countless first dates that took place in a bar.
Honestly, what I just described above has happened to me countless times. But again, it's always with women well over 30 years old. Either the woman really gets into the makeout and gets turned on and we bang or they're guarded like this one and things stall out.
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Anyone and everyone please feel free to chime in but I'm really looking forward to hearing what B7, Travesty and Kaotic have to say. Help me guys!!