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I definitely see a pattern here and I think that some people just like to project an image of themselves as being atypical no matter the issue/topic/situation. Perhaps they believe it makes them seem more interesting.
I have gone out with quite a few men before meeting and marrying my husband. I have been on "dates". They were never very interesting. The best relationships that I had came from meeting people organically as I went about my life, whether the relationship was a FWB or a traditional relationship. I was lucky that my FWBs were FRIENDS. Friends first, friends still with some fun gravy on the side.
Now we call what we do when we leave the kids with the in-laws "date night". They don't look super different than any other night except the kids are not there. We eat out plenty as a family as well.
So overall dating was the teeniest portion of my romantic interaction as a younger person.
I have dated and had serious relationships. However, my serious relationships did not begin with "dating," at least as it is commonly practiced today (a period of casual or "feeling someone out before becoming serious/exclusive").
LOLOLOL. I actually had a girlfriend "borrow" him one Friday night.
There was a movie they were both dying to see that I just did not want to see at all.
They went together and we all still joke about their famous "date"
I loan mine out as well, actually it wasn't a real loan it was more of a barter.
She got him for the afternoon and I got cookies......winners all around.
I definitely see a pattern here and I think that some people just like to project an image of themselves as being atypical no matter the issue/topic/situation. Perhaps they believe it makes them seem more interesting.
And some people are so committed to telling the absolute truth that they will do it no matter how prolonged and vicious the attacks become, in the hope that it will help someone someday.
I am beginning to doubt whether I am that person, though. The accusations by people I previously admired and respected are the most painful.
I see there are 5 us us now, in the never-dated category.
And some people are so committed to telling the absolute truth that they will do it no matter how prolonged and vicious the attacks become, in the hope that it will help someone someday.
I am beginning to doubt whether I am that person, though. The accusations by people I previously admired and respected are the most painful.
I see there are 5 us us now, in the never-dated category.
So you are being "viciously attacked" because your experience is not that of the majority and we have the audacity to comment on a thread that YOU created to discuss your atypical romantic life. My, now that's rich.
And some people are so committed to telling the absolute truth that they will do it no matter how prolonged and vicious the attacks become, in the hope that it will help someone someday.
I am beginning to doubt whether I am that person, though. The accusations by people I previously admired and respected are the most painful.
I see there are 5 us us now, in the never-dated category.
Based upon the definition generically used by me and almost everyone I have ever discussed dating with, you Nila, have been on a date.
I believe you define a date differently than most people.
This isnt an attack on you.
I forgot that, too, is not normal for this forum. Feel free to ignore it.
I'm not attacking you, but to me, 16 yr old girls have no business spending the night at a guys house...... You might have been more advanced or smarter and have been in college, but I don't think the average 16 yr old girl is equipped to deal with all of the stuff associated with sexual activities and staying at boys/mens houses...
Preggers is always a big one, and yes, I know that there is adoption/abortion, but I'm talking about the emotional tolls that have to be paid with such decisions...
I'm not attacking you, but to me, 16 yr old girls have no business spending the night at a guys house...... You might have been more advanced or smarter and have been in college, but I don't think the average 16 yr old girl is equipped to deal with all of the stuff associated with sexual activities and staying at boys/mens houses...
Preggers is always a big one, and yes, I know that there is adoption/abortion, but I'm talking about the emotional tolls that have to be paid with such decisions...
Getting outside the scope of the thread here.....
The OP may have grown up outside the US. In parts of Europe it's not unusual for teens to spend the night together even in the parental home. We also don't know if anything sexual happened (yes, teens do have sleepovers and camp-outs where nothing happens!). And not all 16-year-old girls are the same. Lots of unknowns, here. Whatever.
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because your experience is not that of the majority and we have the audacity to comment on a thread that YOU created to discuss your atypical romantic life. My, now that's rich.
