So I was on a tinderdate. We had been writing on tinder for a couple weeks but due to both of us being busy we couldn't meet up until now. The style of texting was mostly banter and soft sexualisations (through innuendos) and she was looking forward to it, so all good so far. We met at a bar really close to me, said hi and hugged, started out by playing a quick game of shuffleboard, both had a lot of fun, a lot of banter and both physically escalating and touching each other. After the game I suggest we go sit at the sofa in the corner and chat, she agrees. (at this point It's extremely on) We go sit there, she sits next to me, basically as close as possible (the sofa had a bit of a funky shape with pillow seperations at the shoulder part, which made it hard to physically escalate through hands like I would normally do), so I instantly get our legs touching instead and we start talking, she keeps her leg there for a very long time and has a very open body language so all good so far. Now... we talk and for some reason we had A LOT more in common than I thought and I guess I started seeing more potential and got in my head. it was due to creepy amounts of coincidental things we had in common. Examples: When we met I asked where she studied. And apparently she is studying the exact same thing as me, same place, same courses, I just finished my studies half a year ago. (it's not a common nor' well known study, hence the odd coincidence). Then she told me she did martial arts, like me. She told me she listened to "all kinds of music" and I did a takeaway and said eh, everyone says that, it's boring and asked for favorite band. And her favorite band is my favorite metal band (I did in no way expect her to be into metal at all). And the list goes on with multiple things like this. It must've got me in my head and nervous (wasn't nervous at all until now). After a while I then tried to sexualize the conversation to escalate, but for some reason the conversation just kept going down non-sexual paths even tho we both held strong eye contact and she was clearly still into me. I tried to get close and touch her face/neck a bit, but I felt the angle we were sitting at made it seem sudden and aggressive if I were to just straight up go for the makeout, so I whimped out. We decided it had gotten late and we'd walk part of the way home before splitting up. So I thought, this is my chance, take her hand, and kiss her during it... She came from school to the date so she had bags in both her hands (so that fck'd the idea of holding hands and going from there). At the end when we split I was gonna go for the kiss but realized she was lik 40 cm shorter than me and again I felt it would just seem off to go for it and we hugged and said we'd meet at my place next time and we both had fun. So.... WTF... I suddenly whimped out like a 13 year old.. is it at all salvageable or did I just completely butcher all attraction? When we went for the goodbye hug I could actually tell she was disappointed that I didn't go for the kiss and I instantly thought "F*CK!" Texted after to say it was fun and ask if she got home safe. She said yeah it was really fun, she was home safe and asked if I got home aswell. The day after I invite her to my place for the drinks we spoke of and asked what her calendar was like the next week. She said she sadly can't this next week due to exams on friday (I knew she had that exam and she is also very nerdy with her studies, so seems like an actual fair excuse). I guess getting in my head made my brain melt... she didn't respond to my last text so I guess I was right in feeling I fck'd it up. I am thinking of maybe just hitting her with "Hey, was thinking about our date and man... the amount of things we had in common was so over the top it was almost weird so it kinda baffeled me, but I am honestly up for giving it another shot if you are" (not sure about the wording but I guess you get the gist of it) Either that or try to set it up again after her exams and just brush off the ignore (she could be busy with exams, but doubt that's the reason, we're on day 3 since the no reply) Any suggestions on how to move on and is it at all salvageable? This is the first chick in a very long time I actually saw potential for something longterm with. Sorry for wall of text, any advice or suggestions appreciated!

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Thanks Alex, I did end up doing that aswell.
Went for setting up the date after a bit of banter and she sent this text:

"I hope my assignment was good, but I have a tendency to get nervous whether what I did was good enough (sweating emoji) - My calendar is pretty booked at the moment, but I'll tell you if there's an opening (regular smiley)"

So I went with: "So the perfectionist comes out huh (winky face) - All good, I'm away on a trip from thursday to monday anyway"

Do I reengage after a week or do I just keep her warm with banter until we have time to meet (or I figure out if she's still interested or not)?
I did think about chugging in the takeaway you mentioned above, just not sure if she would end up taking that negatively and ending it there.

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Sounds like you were killing it the entire time except for the escalation logistics toward the end. When you see her again, find, or MAKE a logistical excuse to kiss her on the cheek. At least in my experience, a kiss on the cheek gets girls more than ready for full-on making out. Maybe when you greet her, or at some point during the interaction where you feel it's right to escalate into that. Often times, if I don't have a good escalation for that kind of kiss, I just do it out of the blue (obviously there's already been plenty of touch and hugging / caressing). If she asks "what was that for?" all I say is "because I felt like it. Is that a problem?" (said with confident eye contact and a playful smirk). This has always worked for me because it was calibrated and there were already those other preliminary escalations.

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Ah that's brilliant, thanks for the advice, I'll definitely give that a shot if I actually get her out again! I was also thinking that if I do get her our I HAVE to go for the kiss even if it doesn't feel right at all, cause I will 100% not get another shot, and I'm also pretty sure I'd have to atleast attempt to escalate it into sex.

Not sure if escalating straight to sex after whimping out the first time is possible tho since she probably will be giving a lot of LMR since I set more of a "dating" frame than a "FWB" frame by not doing anything last time, hopefully we'll see.

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