Hi everyone,

Im new to RP and just had a girl over my house the first time since reading it, and wanted to see if you guys could give me any advice on my FR and what I could do differently. I just started reading about this stuff right before the quarantine happened. Since the quarantine in my area has lightened but not fully been lifted, I’ve been trying my luck on some of the online dating apps.

I met this woman off of bumble and went out with her in the city I live close to. She’s latin american, learning english (but speaks it well). We started at a park in the city, grabbed a drink in the city and sat outside. General talking, getting to know each other, where we live and were raised, etc. She bought up how she wants a relationship, and wants to be a priority by basically asking me if I had time for a relationship. End of the date she starts telling me her parents are overbearing (even from another part of the globe) and asks for advice.

We add each other on instagram and start talking on there and I invite her over for a week later to make dinner together and watch a movie. Day of I ask her when shes coming over, she asks for my address and complains about how far away it is (40 min drive). Says its raining and wants to reschedule and I basically tell her that it’ll be fine (it’ll stop raining). She asks me what I want from this dating app, and first I give a joke answer and then she says “you didnt answer my question” and I say “something between a long term relationship and a one night stand” (which I got from here!) and ask her if it answers her question and she says “but well lets see where it goes”.

She comes over that night, looks kind of uncomfortable coming in. Dressed up for a date though (she looked nice). I asked her about her week, gave her a tour, she still seems a little uncomfortable. We chat more, and start boiling water for the pasta. As the pasta is cooking we put on music and I try to Salsa dance with her. She asks me if I’m nervous because my hands are shaking. I was hungry and I also only took like 2 salsa lessons in my life, lmao, so it was probably both nervous and hungry. She starts laughing, gives me a little lesson, we start doing it and obviously she has much more rhythm than me, oh well.

We eat, talk still stays as small talk, whatever. After we finish we go sit down and I sit down next to her and put my arm around her. She asks how dating is treating me and I say “it’s good, how is it for you?” and she starts complaining about how it’s hard to find anyone who wants a relationship and about how she doesn’t want something casual and how it’s not for her and she doesn’t like one night stands. I say that I don’t want one night stands either and she seems a little surprised.

I ask her about her parents and she says nicely its fine thank you for your interest.

I get up, make some tea and come back and she says that I was nervous before but I won’t admit it and I just tell her I was hungry. She starts laughing / giggling and asks me if I get nervous on dates and I tell her no.

Eventually she says she has to go soon and looks away. I pull over and kiss her and she says she has to go again and I kiss her again and we start making out. We’re making out, touching each other (no clothes off), and after like 10 minutes she says it’s time to leave and she leaves.

I feel like I either missed something or didn’t pass a shit test (I’ll admit the salsa dancing rattled my confidence but I feel like I recovered) or pass a comfort test. What do you think??