Some updates.
So the girl I went out with last week, the one that I really liked. I'm seeing her again for a third date tomorrow. But she's been honest with me and said she doesn't really know what she's looking for, and she's just out of a long term relationship. She doesn't know if she wants to date, but at the same time, she does seem to want to spend quite a bit of time with me. I don't know what to think of that, but whatever - I'm going out with her to see Paddington 2 (someone kill me; to be fair this is my fault, I picked the movie, but I didn't want to see Daddy's Home 2, or Battle of the Sexes either).
The thing is, she doesn't know what she wants, and I think (despite what he profile says) she doesn't really want a long term relationship right now. I get the general impression she doesn't really know what she's doing with her life, and that she would be quite distant, which I wouldn't appreciate in a relationship. I'm still happy to hang out with her, I think she's a really cool person, but I feel that were just going to end up as friends.
I met another girl on Tinder (Amy). She's pretty attractive (between a 7 and 9 out of 10 depending on which photo you look at), and she plays video games. She's currently playing Horizon. I ended up ignoring Sygma's advice and chatting with this girl a lot - just because it's not my style I guess. It wasn't that I didn't find the advice valuable, it's just that if a girl starts talking to me online, I really enjoy chatting with them and for me, it's a good way of making the first date feel really comfortable and easy. I find that helps for both of us. I can totally see how it could be a romance killer, but if you're chatting with the right person, that just doesn't seem to happen.
We're meeting up for a date on this next Sunday. She seems pretty into me in general. For instance tonight, we were chatting for about 3 hours on whatsapp. We video called for a bit to make sure we were real people, in general it felt really good to talk to her. I definitely felt that over the last few days, I've been developing a fondness for her. She's just a nice girl, and she wants a lot of the same things I do out of life.
At the same time, I have another date next Thursday. She's okay, but really hard to judge until I've met her. She hasn't spoken to me that much (which is fine, obviously). I guess my concern is that I'll be in a slightly more serious position with one of these other two girls, by the time I even date this girl, which is just going to distract me on my date with her.
I cancelled another date with a girl on Friday. Stuff is just getting too hectic and I don't have time for it. She seems like a nice girl but less appealing than the other three.