Archive for July, 2007

research the movie before planning a date at the movies

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

This bit of advice really has a lot do with which stage of the relationship you are in. I recently ended up at the movies with a girl that I had been dating for 3 years. At three years, we were in a stage of the relationship where we had to know that we were not going to be married, and we were beyond the whole lovey dovey, romantic love life.

So the movie we ended up seeing had a lot of romance and that whole Hollywood magic relationship crap. Well we didn’t know it was going to be like that, and really it made things uncomfortable for the both of us. These kinds of things are especially worse if there are other new couples in the theater and you can see them getting close to each other and crap.

The same is true for other stages of relationships, you may not want to see something that is overly sexual if you are on a first date, and you should probable get to know someone better before choosing to see movies that would be considered controversial.

With a ton of information available today about all the movies out there, and most of the info also available on a cell phone, there should be no excuse for putting you and your date into an uncomfortable movie situation - research the flick before you buy the tickets.

Double date with ex-girlfriend, and her friend as current dating interest

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

This is a story that I am going to learn from. One night I went out with an old flame and her friend thinking that the old flames were extinguished and I could pursue her friend without any issues. Thing wre nice and cordial until after a few drinks I asked her point blank if she had any issues with me having sex with her friends.

She came out with “well which ones?”. At that point I knew this was going to be a problem. I should have taken an exit strategy at that point, but I stayed and we hung out for several more hours, going to another cafe for some food, that’s when things got worse. What I had thought would be a friendly opportunity to get to know a friend’s friend turned into an entirely different situation.

I tried to divert the conversation to non sexual areas, but the cat was already out of the bag about my interest, and the two friends began getting catty with each other, and it turned into a kind of a 2 hour long fight. Not that the whole time was a fight, it just flared up, off and on.

So I learned not to set up a date with a potential love or sex  interest with an ex that has not already been pre qualified to being open to you dating her friends, otherwise it could turn into a long night that you know will go nowhere.