Seddit, so I haven't had a first date in a good 7 years due to me being off the market, and the date I had today was just set up perfectly for awkwardness (we were going skiing a good 2.5 hours away roundtrip).

While I woke up feeling nervous as shit (but told myself to keep frame and listening to "Mansformation" before hand certainly helped), all the jitters went away when I finally met up with the girl. I figured that even if the date bombed, I would have a great time skiing.

Conversation was easy and natural for both of us, and we actually had a lot in common. Through out the ENTIRE total of 10 hours we hung out together, there wasn't any awkward silence AT ALL.

I initiated some kino, but I believe this girl was pretty shy (how do you handle shy girls) when it came to physical stuff. She didn't really resist, but she didn't really reciprocate or initiate anything either. No matter, I kept it light, slowly escalating (nothing sexual), but I didn't really have too much reciprocation.

One of the earlier mistakes I made was when I insisted on paying for dinner. She wanted to split, but I insisted.

The other mistake I made was that I'm terrible at initiating the kiss. I would have earlier than when I dropped her off, but I just wasn't feeling her body language. Finally, when I said goodbye, I decided "fuck it" and went for it. It was incredibly awkward, mostly because she tried to go all tongue at first, which threw me off, and then she kept pulling away, just some really quick, light kisses.

I left, but realized I forgot something and had to go back. This time around, she was MUCH more open with the body language (grabbing my hands, wanting to go in for a hug/kiss) but still the kisses were really short, and she pulled away really fast. I'm assuming it's shyness? As I think she seemed pretty interested in me. How do you deal with that?

TL;DR: Went on date with girl. She didn't really reciprocate kino much, but wasn't resistant either to it. Kisses were really short and I felt rejected at first, but afterwards when I had to go back, she was much more receptive body language was even though we kissed again and it was real short.