Drunk ramblings date report: FAILURE but redemption is possible. Read it in one go and you get the idea
This girl off Bumble seemed to give off the impression right from the beginning that she found me intimidatingly handsome. We found a lot of stuff to relate about to talk about on wechat the days leading up, but details schmetials. She had a really hot style (one of the main things I look for) and yet also seemed very universally attractive like she could be some kind of TV star. She seemed kind of high class overall so I swapped my fit from a more platonic date earlier that day to something more formal and acted a bit more mature and came in there knowing I'd be leading way since I knew she'd be nervous. Spoiler alert is that this often acts in my detriment. (Spoiler alert) one too many times I've been alone with a girl thinking I sealed the deal and then she actually thinks I wasn't that interested in her or something and wasn't expecting me to escalate even though I in my head thought it was pretty obvious we both found each other hot.
We met at a super chill, hidden bar (my kind of venue, since I like actually hearing people and usually there are less turbo-normies which is nice in China where popular places are often crowded to the brim) and we were the only ones there after a while. She was really nervous - especially since her English wasn't amazing. This is basically a universal excuse most girls have so it'll be pretty crazy if/when I get to B1/B2 mandarin because I can tell girls will open up a lot - talk about motivation. She mentioned how she liked to go clubbing - her style was kinda hooker-ish for lack of a more euphemistic way of saying it; the classic girl who goes clubbing a lot. Hella wechat moments, A lot of IOIs/compliments and she was right up against me the whole time. So all things considered I thought I had this in the fucking bag like I've never seen before, basically every signal was telling me she wanted to hook up (there's more context that would be hard to explain in the type of stuff we talked about on wechat before and the jokes she made, just trust me bro)
I led the conversation for the most part but there's nothing wrong with that if she's introverted. At one point she said she was getting dizzy because she hadn't drank in a while so this threw me off a bit. I kinda planned on going to another bar; we were looking at the map a lot and talking about bars, clubs, etc. a lot of the time so that she could also feed me information - I didn't have another place in mind so I basically gave her the choice (better to just ask yes/no than give choices but whatever) of walking around and going to another bar or checking out my apartment (which I mentioned earlier; "it's pretty nice, I'm decorating it, blablabla') and she pretty readily said she'd like to go to my apartment. So we left after only just an hour of meeting. She was honestly still nervous but, to be honest, I figured she was horny for days, and we could walk it off on the way to my place.
Once we got there, I subconsciously knew that if she didn't "know" then it was probably over, because it's not like I had glasses of wine and I had on idea how to even use the TV to put on a movie or whatever. One of the only things I said after sitting down was like "yeah I don't even know how to use the TV, I've never turned it on" "you want to turn on the TV?" "no... we don't have too..." and so I basically just went right for it and put my arm around her shoulder and stuff but she instantly wasn't receptive at all. Everything started crumbling.
She basically gave exactly what little I remember of a JAV video or something
@Rance posted once where she starts shaking her head and acting all cold. I don't remember a lot of the advice at overcoming last-minute resistance (reading
@myeyes threads has a lot of "of fucking course" moments right now - I realize I probably should have gone in for a kiss on the neck or something but I guess that felt a little rapey to me in the moment or something jfl) besides to just... kind of ignore the whole head shaking thing and keep going. I kept rubbing her neck, back of her head, brushing her hair while giving fuck me/puppy eyes (not I'm going to rape you eyes) all while intermittently talking a bit (which killed the vibe a bit in retrospect - why wouldn't it - but it felt necessary to lower the anxiety which I subconsciously knew I definitely had to do, while still keeping what sexual polarity was built up (which I thought I had plenty of)), and she was saying stuff like "how many other girls have you done this with?" or "is this normal for you? To be like this the first night you meet someone" and put into her translate app "I didn't know this is what we were going to be doing" but in my head it's like WTF DID YOU EXPECT, A REAL ESTATE TOUR? I DIDN'T EVEN SAY WATCH A MOVIE, I JUST SAID COME OVER LOL.
Her body language really was no't "scared" or closed off at all, I guess moreso like this was some moral dilemma. I kept trying to smooth talk her and said stuff like "you don't have to do anything you don't want to do" to seem less manipulative or whatever, but still no dice. I asked if she wanted to just go back to another bar and keep hanging out for a while since we understandably have only been talking for a fucking hour, but she said she just wanted to go home. She was texting her friend on Wechat a bit the whole date, and when I saw her send a picture of the living room we were in during this, that cortisol spiked me for some reason, so I kind of just felt like a rapist and gave up and was like "alright, let's go.." and she looked kinda surprised. I grabbed her shoulder and stuff to lead the way out and she kinda just flopped like a ragdoll onto my chest, and thought I'd give one last crack at it and gave her the look, and we gave each other a quick kiss. If that even means anything.
Walking her back to the gate, a minute or 2 affter she called her Didi ride, I asked to hit her vape for the lols since for some reason I start chainsmoking those things whenever they're around yet never get addicted/withdrawals/etc. long-term - to my surprise she left it and her cigarettes back at the apartment. Talked her into getting them real quick rather than for "next time" (which might not exist) since you can cancel Didi for free right after calling.
There's a lot of random small talk happening this whole time where I'm basically playing the whole "situation" off smooth (I asked if she wanted to just go to another bar or something a few more times) and she asked if I wanted a ONS, and I mentioned that it wasn't actually my intention (it honestly isn't) and that I actually like her (less so now!) and thought coming over and getting bizzay was normal and it seemed like what she wanted/expected.
She didn't come back in (I originally said "you don't even have to come in - we can just grab them" but whether she'd ignore that is anoher question) however on the walk back she grabbed my hand and held it, and all of a started giving me lovey-dovey looks, WTF, and we kissed goodbye (kinda on the cheek but whatever lol) a few different times (you know how it is not leaving after saying goodbye lol). Mixed signals (sometimes girls be capping to get their way out of a situation talking about anything like "next time") during the 5 minute conversation waiting for her ride back but I never lost my cool the whole time and tried to be respectful and hear her out without simping out, for the off chance she
actually is more traditional and against ONS.
In retrospect, I should've teased her a lot more and shit like that during the start of the date, but wtf do you expect when it's 1 hour and I thought she seemed dtf before she even walked in (hence why I asked on at least 3 or 4 instances if she just wanted to hang out somewhere for a while longer, but not dice. Maybe she was actually tired, idk. Either that or she doesn't fw me is the way I see it).
So honestly I don't fucking know.
Not a single thing about her (literally besides having both LTR and 'fun dates' on Bumble) was screaming "is hard-no against making out/sex on the first date" and yet her excuses
seemed genuine (I'm not very experienced in interpreting the lies and truths of women) and not like it was attraction suddenly dropping and regretting everything - she could hardly keep her eyes off me.
Maybe she just wants a betabuxx BF or something - I don't see how I can actually salvage this situation. I only have experience with the formula of going somewhere -> chilling at my place. Framing things in a different way than some "fool me once, fool me twice" shit seems challenging, because now that's instantly codeword for "are you ready to have sex pretty please???". I liked
@Rance's advice of "just ending up" at your place but, while I am a ~15-20 minute from a popular club area, it's still out of the way, + it's like a 5 minute walk from the gate to my place and it's practically impossible to "accidentally" go there in any way shape or form lol (plus slaying in the daytime is kinda awkward on a university campus for obvious reasons given said 5 minute walk lol).
TL;DR the lessons learned are to improve overcoming last-minute resistance + deck out my place some more so that there's something to "do" after getting there. I knew I should've bought some wine or something but I didn't know where to buy glasses so I skipped out on it jfl. I think if I just put something on the fucking TV for half an hour I'd probably be telling a totally different story right now