Say you met on a Tuesday, do you text only on Sunday or so to arrange a second date for the upcoming week..or upcoming weekend?

If you meet on a Thursday, do you wait at least one week?

I don’t have much time to date, honestly between work and the kids schedules and having them every other weekend, it’s tough to yet also fit in these one-week rules that make, at the minimum, two weeks distance from the first date. I get the feeling that after a week of no contact the spark and flare 🔥 will extinguish …

With the exception of the polite customary* post- date/next day text I don’t want to text immediately, come off needy or desperate, but there’s this girl that I met on Tuesday that I want to take out again, but I can only do it next weekend at the earliest.

*she was a slow, one text person a day kind of person on the OLD app, this time however she never replied to my text. I don’t want to make nothing out of it, but I do want to go out again, or at least propose. If she does not have any interest In will then know.

At the end of the first date she did make some positive remarks about my shirt and I teased her, but the signals were definitely mixed. I was too pussy to go for the kiss and she might have thought - this guy is weak. That being said I want to obviously text her and see if she is even interested in meeting again…but don’t know want to text too soon/come across needy or desperate. How do you’ll handle these things endless first dates mixed signals and follow ups post first date?