Recently, I went on a Tinder date with a girl and then waited about 6 days before asking her for date #2, with no contact in between. Someone told me that was a mistake and that I should have been texting with her in the interim.

Now, this is a really basic question, but I am very inexperienced and, frankly, a little bit autistic about these things and I don't get what kind of texts to send and what the purpose of those texts should be (flirting, building comfort, developing the relationship, what?).

The person told me to ask her how her week had been. It would never occur to me to text something like that.

So, supposing we are talking here about the time between dates 1-3,

1) What should you be looking to do with these texts? (again, is it to flirt, to build comfort, to develop closeness...)

2) What kind of texts specifically should I be sending? Can you give me some examples?