I went on a date with a girl today. She lives in the town nearby. I got her to pick a place for us to meet, as I'd never been there before so I figured she'd know better.
When I met her at first, I was pretty stunned as to how attractive she is. Bearing in mind I haven't dated for 6 years, I guess I'd forgotten what it feels like to be attracted to another girl. Anyway, she had a real natural beauty to her. For a moment I felt intimidated by how attractive she was, but just approached her and acted pretty normal.
We seemed to get along pretty well. I think a big part of it was because when she was 22 she had a stroke, and right now, she works for a charity trying to ensure people better understand stroke. She has no real symptoms anymore, but you can see hints of her aphasia every now and then. You can see it's just slightly more demanding for her to access her vocabulary at times, she says it makes her tired to talk for really long periods of time.
We spoke for about 2 and a half hours, then I asked if she wanted to leave the bar and get some food. I wanted to give her an opportunity to leave really. She was happy to come and eat with me, and we spent another couple of hours at a burger restaurant. She got her wallet out to pay half of the bill but I offered to pay, for the meal, £25, not too bad but not cheap either.
I mentioned that I should get home sometime soon, since I took the train to get there, and she checked the train times for me (my phone ran out of battery). We kept talking, and she walked me to the train station, despite it being the opposite direction from where she had parked.
We hugged, and I told her I wanted to see her again. She smiled and said 'yes' and we parted.
On the train ride home, she sent me a text saying:
"Hey it was really nice to meet you, I had a really good time. It would be cool to hang out again sometime :)"
How does that sound guys? I think it went pretty well.
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This date was really good for me, it's made me feel a lot better about everything. I arranged this date with a girl on OKC one day after splitting with my fiance, and at the time I was worried that was too soon, that I shouldn't be messaging other girls. But it made me realise that there's plenty of people out there, and even if it doesn't work out with this girl, there's always going to be someone out there for me. Before I went out with this girl (Marnie) I would have still wanted to get back with my ex, but I don't want that anymore, it helped me move forward.