I think my texting game is pretty solid. I know how to banter well. The only issue is escalation past “just texting” into calling, FaceTiming, and ultimately meeting in person for a date. I don’t know how people do it quite frankly. Do you literally just ask her “hey wanna call/FT/meet up?” How do you know when the time is right to ask that question? Obviously each girl is different, but surely there’s some patterns.

If I can get to the stage where we’re at least calling, I think that’d give me so much more leverage and opportunity to compensate for the aspects of my appearance I can’t control, namely my face. I can then use that to increase my odds of meeting in person. I’m a pretty vibrant person over call and can’t fully express it over text. But of course it’s getting to the point where we are calling that I have trouble with.