I guess this is my first post since migrating from the other place? I took a bit of a dating break around when I took a month and a half off of dating (starting with verbally cutting things off) and am only now getting back into dating, albeit at a slower rate than I was going over the summer.
Some notably bad dates in the second half of the year:
1) Met a woman for gelato near where we live. And then it went downhill. Her name was different than what was on her profile (why?), she revealed she doesn't eat gelato... because she's on a detox diet (why not mention it and we do something else?) and then she tried to have me guess what nationality she was (correct answer: I don't care, and there is no correct answer to this question, ever.)
2) Lots of difficulty trying to hammer down a coffee date with a woman. First time she had to cancel (after trying to upgrade the date to a dinner at a nice restaurant), then pushed back our second date 30 minute shortly before I left my place, and then was still almost 20 minutes late beyond that, then reveals that she has a kid that she never mentioned in her profile or our texting, and then tries to extend the date to dinner at a nice restaurant nearby. Red flag, red flag, red flag.
Still, despite those bad dates, I saw several women a few times each throughout the year. I'm more relaxed on dates than I used to be, by a lot, but I still need to be more flirty and less guarded, and also less willing to drop things when my interest slightly wanes.