Tactful way to ask a woman if she's single? (dating, boyfriend, divorced)
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Over the last few months, I've been talking to the woman who works in the office next to mine. We frequently run into each other in the hall or office kitchen and get into interesting conversations.
Yesterday, she invited me to go walking with her sometime next week during our lunch hour break. I like her and want to get to know her better. I'm open to dating her, but I don't know if she's single or not. I've never heard her mention a boyfriend, and she told me that she lives alone, but I can't assume that this means she's single.
What would be a tactful way to ask if she's single? I don't know if it's considered too forward of me to just come out and ask her the question, but on the other hand, I don't want to beat around the bush.
Oh, and if it matters to you, I'm a 29-year-old male. I don't know her age, but she appears to be in her mid to late 30's.
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Originally Posted by passionatearts
Over the last few months, I've been talking to the woman who works in the office next to mine. We frequently run into each other in the hall or office kitchen and get into interesting conversations.
Yesterday, she invited me to go walking with her sometime next week during our lunch hour break. I like her and want to get to know her better. I'm open to dating her, but I don't know if she's single or not. I've never heard her mention a boyfriend, and she told me that she lives alone, but I can't assume that this means she's single.
What would be a tactful way to ask if she's single? I don't know if it's considered too forward of me to just come out and ask her the question, but on the other hand, I don't want to beat around the bush.
Oh, and if it matters to you, I'm a 29-year-old male. I don't know her age, but she appears to be in her mid to late 30's.
She's single and she wants to get to know you better. Go with it. You aren't going to get your heart broken or step on anyone's toes by getting to know a woman well enough to find out if she's single.
The way some guys have asked me is, during the course of conversation, to say something like, "oh your boyfriend must not like that" or something, to which the reply is "oh, I don't have a boyfriend."
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Originally Posted by fleetiebelle
The way some guys have asked me is, during the course of conversation, to say something like, "oh your boyfriend must not like that" or something, to which the reply is "oh, I don't have a boyfriend."
When I've heard something like that I didn't respond the way they were trying to get me to. It's just one sign to me that they're passive aggressive. I divorced one of those.
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