I met this young woman at a park recently with my kids. I am a single father, with 2 boys. We clicked really well. She doesn’t have kids, but she’s mid 20’s in school (she was at the park reading). We hit it off really well, and we talked for about an hour. I got her phone number.

Here is where I need personal advice. I think I need advice on whether or not I can salvage this. Can you analyze my sequence of events for me?

I messaged her within 45 minutes, after I got home. She usually takes 30 min – 24 hrs to respond. I have initiated texts, essentially always, but its short and to follow up on lingering questions she texts back (it always takes hours). I decided not to match her text response times and usually text within 15 minutes from the point she texts me. Anyways, she recently canceled on me for a coffee date, but gave me intricate details on the next 4 days to reschedule. She claimed she was sick, but when I texted her later to see how she was doing, she admittingly explained she was at her friend’s graduation, and that she had a head ache. I think I messed up by offering to make her a “super salad” (she’s vegetarian) which has all the health nut key ingredients people use to get over coughs. She said yes but felt bad saying she just met me and later declined. I think I came off as week and too pushy and as a pleaser type.

I did offer a time to reschedule based off her schedule she shared with me, but she didn’t respond. We were talking a lot and we tend to send a couple of long texts back and forth. At this point its been almost 2 days since I last texted her, and it was just conversational. I decided to not text her until she says hi, but I think I came off too strong with her.

Can anyone else give me some advice on what to do, other than not be too needy?