Gentleman, I recently find myself back in the game. And believe i have made a series of errors. Was hoping I could get a consulting opinion about accurately identifying where I went wrong.
New hire comes to work (she is 28y/o (as am i) staying and consulting for 3 months.) I train her, and we hit it off. She was dating someone at the time. I got her number and we went rock climbing anyway. Soon after we had plans for dinner, but it seemed to me like she blew me off. So i completely ignored her. Two months later she has broken up with her boyfriend (who was cheating on her.) and we end up matching on bumble. One thing leads to another, and I ask her out again. She accepts. We meet for dinner, have a great time, get drinks, and then go back to her place (but no sex.) This was thursday. 12/1
During dinner she invites me to join her on a cross country road trip, because her new consulting assignment starts in California. We currently are living in Chicago. I agreed on the spot (at dinner.) I kept texting to a minimum, and used the phone only for setting up dates or replying to her texts. It was friday 12/2, and when we were leaving work she offers me a ride home. Which i accepted. She offered to hang out sunday, and I said sure- we could for a short period of time as I had finals for grad school coming up.
Sunday 12/4 comes up, she comes over mid afternoon and we end up hanging at my place for a few hours. Sober 100% of the time, good conversation and some great oral sex was had. before the dirty, she mentions that she is leaving soon and doesn't want to hurt someone, or be hurt. I told her hey, its cool- lets just see where this goes and take it from there. She leaves for her place that night after we had some fun.
I see her again at work 12/8. She makes some excuse as to why i need to ride home with her. I accept, and as she is dropping me off at my place she mentions having a cold pizza at her place, so i ask her if she is inviting me over, she says yes. So we go back to her place, have more oral sex and drink wine. I stay over at her place- as we both have work in the morning, and she drives me to work. This night she mentions how She normally doesn't go for guys like me, and that she still remembers the first time we met. She remembers how even though she was seeing someone, she still wanted to keep talking with me and flirting after the work day. She says she has not felt that before. And that I am very weird, in a good way. She also tells me that she told her room mate right away about me. 12/9
12/9 Friday, we both work. Company holiday party. She again offers to drive me home. We both get ready after work, and I catch an uber to her place so we can ride together. We didn't want the entire office to know about us, so we played it cool- and i basically just spend time with my friendly co workers. I made sure to chat up all of the girls, and she would approach me once and awhile on her own to say hi. We had made plans before going to the party to leave together and grab brunch in the morning. I had WAY to much to drink, and she comes back to my place- where I promptly pass out. She was quite livid, and ended up leaving my place at 330 am, against my protest. But i let her go, and went back to sleep. I wake up to some texts sent 10-15 min after she had left saying something to the effect of: You know i really wanted to stay... but apparently you are too passed out to even respond to that.
12/10 Saturday, I send her a quick text saying hey- a few mistakes were made last night, if you want to talk about it call me. A short while later, she did. We laughed it off. She had plenty to do, as her parents were visiting her sunday. She invited me to join her shopping, and to do dinner ****tails after.
This is where i think I made a critical mistake. I went shopping with her and hung out. Dinner was nice, and so were drinks. We ended at her place. Made out, did a bit of heavy petting- but she was very tired, and I left. I also made the mistake of asking her to join me for dinner 12/13 at some point during the night. As this is the last time we can see each other before she leaves the country for 2 weeks.
I am going to be on vacation when she returns, then we have that long car trip in the early part of january.
12/11- I let her have space. Parents were in town, and I had dates with 2 other girls. She texted me first, mid afternoon asking how my day was going. I didn't see it till an hour later and shot back something simple.
12/12 She ignored the text till this morning, and sent me replays early in the morning. We never set a definitive time for dinner, so i casually asked if 6pm was ok. To which she responds: I'm having a panic moment about leaving for my 2 week trip, let me see what I can get done. My response was, Ok, get back to me sometime when you want to hang.
She throws a big text afterwards, with an Absolutely!!! and then starts chatting me up about life. I keep it short, and bow out after 2/3 back and forth.
Now that you gentleman know the basic story, I just want to make sure that I am on the right path as to where I ****ed up.
1. We were hanging out too much, too soon. I normally ask a date a week, and thought it was OK to hang with her if she was the one suggesting.
2. Some people at work found out about us. And two of my co-workers apparently approached her, and let her know that I really like her, and that sometimes I fall hard for girls. This was a huge mistake again on my part of talking with a friend about her. When she did approach me about this, I brushed it off- saying wow, I need new friends- but yah I do like you.
3. I asked for a date while on a date.
4. I wanted to see what was there between us before she left for california. I think that I should have played it much slower- even with the limited time, and been willing to see if she would be cool with me flying out to see her once and awhile after the trip. IE. I moved to fast, and looked desperate.
Have I missed anything? And have i correctly identified all of the areas i really went wrong?
New hire comes to work (she is 28y/o (as am i) staying and consulting for 3 months.) I train her, and we hit it off. She was dating someone at the time. I got her number and we went rock climbing anyway. Soon after we had plans for dinner, but it seemed to me like she blew me off. So i completely ignored her. Two months later she has broken up with her boyfriend (who was cheating on her.) and we end up matching on bumble. One thing leads to another, and I ask her out again. She accepts. We meet for dinner, have a great time, get drinks, and then go back to her place (but no sex.) This was thursday. 12/1
During dinner she invites me to join her on a cross country road trip, because her new consulting assignment starts in California. We currently are living in Chicago. I agreed on the spot (at dinner.) I kept texting to a minimum, and used the phone only for setting up dates or replying to her texts. It was friday 12/2, and when we were leaving work she offers me a ride home. Which i accepted. She offered to hang out sunday, and I said sure- we could for a short period of time as I had finals for grad school coming up.
Sunday 12/4 comes up, she comes over mid afternoon and we end up hanging at my place for a few hours. Sober 100% of the time, good conversation and some great oral sex was had. before the dirty, she mentions that she is leaving soon and doesn't want to hurt someone, or be hurt. I told her hey, its cool- lets just see where this goes and take it from there. She leaves for her place that night after we had some fun.
I see her again at work 12/8. She makes some excuse as to why i need to ride home with her. I accept, and as she is dropping me off at my place she mentions having a cold pizza at her place, so i ask her if she is inviting me over, she says yes. So we go back to her place, have more oral sex and drink wine. I stay over at her place- as we both have work in the morning, and she drives me to work. This night she mentions how She normally doesn't go for guys like me, and that she still remembers the first time we met. She remembers how even though she was seeing someone, she still wanted to keep talking with me and flirting after the work day. She says she has not felt that before. And that I am very weird, in a good way. She also tells me that she told her room mate right away about me. 12/9
12/9 Friday, we both work. Company holiday party. She again offers to drive me home. We both get ready after work, and I catch an uber to her place so we can ride together. We didn't want the entire office to know about us, so we played it cool- and i basically just spend time with my friendly co workers. I made sure to chat up all of the girls, and she would approach me once and awhile on her own to say hi. We had made plans before going to the party to leave together and grab brunch in the morning. I had WAY to much to drink, and she comes back to my place- where I promptly pass out. She was quite livid, and ended up leaving my place at 330 am, against my protest. But i let her go, and went back to sleep. I wake up to some texts sent 10-15 min after she had left saying something to the effect of: You know i really wanted to stay... but apparently you are too passed out to even respond to that.
12/10 Saturday, I send her a quick text saying hey- a few mistakes were made last night, if you want to talk about it call me. A short while later, she did. We laughed it off. She had plenty to do, as her parents were visiting her sunday. She invited me to join her shopping, and to do dinner ****tails after.
This is where i think I made a critical mistake. I went shopping with her and hung out. Dinner was nice, and so were drinks. We ended at her place. Made out, did a bit of heavy petting- but she was very tired, and I left. I also made the mistake of asking her to join me for dinner 12/13 at some point during the night. As this is the last time we can see each other before she leaves the country for 2 weeks.
I am going to be on vacation when she returns, then we have that long car trip in the early part of january.
12/11- I let her have space. Parents were in town, and I had dates with 2 other girls. She texted me first, mid afternoon asking how my day was going. I didn't see it till an hour later and shot back something simple.
12/12 She ignored the text till this morning, and sent me replays early in the morning. We never set a definitive time for dinner, so i casually asked if 6pm was ok. To which she responds: I'm having a panic moment about leaving for my 2 week trip, let me see what I can get done. My response was, Ok, get back to me sometime when you want to hang.
She throws a big text afterwards, with an Absolutely!!! and then starts chatting me up about life. I keep it short, and bow out after 2/3 back and forth.
Now that you gentleman know the basic story, I just want to make sure that I am on the right path as to where I ****ed up.
1. We were hanging out too much, too soon. I normally ask a date a week, and thought it was OK to hang with her if she was the one suggesting.
2. Some people at work found out about us. And two of my co-workers apparently approached her, and let her know that I really like her, and that sometimes I fall hard for girls. This was a huge mistake again on my part of talking with a friend about her. When she did approach me about this, I brushed it off- saying wow, I need new friends- but yah I do like you.
3. I asked for a date while on a date.
4. I wanted to see what was there between us before she left for california. I think that I should have played it much slower- even with the limited time, and been willing to see if she would be cool with me flying out to see her once and awhile after the trip. IE. I moved to fast, and looked desperate.
Have I missed anything? And have i correctly identified all of the areas i really went wrong?
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