Ladies, thank you for all of the support you give on here. I think I found a Captain. Now I hope to continue to improve. My story is as follows...

I've been trying online dating for several months. After wading through the PUAs, the major Alphas, and several Betas, I received a message on Plenty of Fish, the dating site/app. He was polite and inquiring. We exchanged numbers early so we could exchange pictures.

He is 31 and I am 27. He is a businessman and I am a high school teacher. He ended his last LTR because she was lazy. My last relationship ended because I could not be submissive to a low value man.

We met at a restaurant in my town today for lunch. He came into town last night because he had a business meeting here. I insisted on meeting during the day.

He have me two choices for restaurants because I couldn't decide. I don't like making decisions like that anyway, so it was nice that he narrowed it down. I was nervous, and so was he. He dresses in a suit 90% of the time, but expressed that he likes women in casual clothes. We were meeting at a steakhouse, so I went with nice black pants and a cream top with lace down the sides and these shoes. Also, no make up except lip gloss (because humid and sunglasses.)

We moved the original meeting from 11 to noon at his request. Since I had the whole day off, I told him to take his time, he had business to attend to. At noon, he was 10 minutes late anyway so I waited outside the restaurant. He apologized profusely; it was the GPS messing up.

First impression? Oh. My. Goodness. He pulled up in a brand new Cadillac. He drives a lot for business, so I wasn't entirely surprised, just pleasantly so. He also opens/holds doors open for women. In my heels, I'm just shorter than he is. The perfect height for dancing.

We went inside and were seated immediately. The waitress was nice, because we kept talking instead of deciding what we wanted to eat. She kept taking her cues from me. (Is this normal in a restaurant? To take the cues from the girl when a couple is seated?)

We talked about work, school, travel, and family. He has an accent and seemed content to hear me talk when he had questions. He noticed that I was addressing the waitress by her name, so I explained that it was just something I did because they have a hard job. He says I'm so nice to do that.

We skipped dessert and went for a drive to downtown. My city doesn't have a lot to offer for entertainment, but we walked to look at the art gallery and I introduced him to our local candy shop, which has the best caramel corn. Somewhere in the novelty candy aisle he decided to take my hand and ask me if I knew how to dance. He have me a little twirl, pulled me close and kissed me. Wow. (Lots of intermittent kissing until the end of our date, I'll spare you.) We took a little walk to the fountain and sat in the park to talk a little more. Neither of us were ready to end the date so we went for a drive. I answered questions about my city. Showed him a few things of unimport.

He was very straightforward about exclusivity. And asked if that was okay, if we could be exclusive immediately. I agreed. He doesn't want to waste time with noncommitment and neither do I.

He's travelling Monday through Thursday next week, but will be traveling between cities tomorrow evening, so we're going to a movie together. We didn't want to separate at the conclusion of our date. He walked me over to my car and opened my door for me. (Lots of goodbye kisses.)

Texts later included a lot of compliments. :)

I'm leaving out minor things. If you have questions, ask away! I'm so elated I can hardly breathe.