I have a date this week!

I feels a bit strange to be making a thread about this, but this is the Cat Lounge... I have a date this week! It's been ahwile since I've allowed myself to date, but I met a nice gal online. She didn't have a photo in her profile, but we had a blast chatting and we definitely have some chemistry there. She knows what I look like though, but that's a good thing. If she can stand to look at my picture and still have a great time chatting, that's more than half the battle. This is my first real blind date! Have any of you ever done it this blind?

Ryan, that's great news! I wish you the very best of luck! Don't be so hard on yourself....you're a very handsome man! I'm sure she feels the same!

As for a completely blind date, I've never done it nor could I. Call me shallow, but looks are important to me. I have to feel that physical attraction along with the chemistry & personality attraction.

Can I ask why you didn't ask for her picture? Hope your date goes beautifully for you! You deserve it Ryan! Plus, we all want to know all the details...well, most of the details!

Nope! Never been on a blind date and too late for me to try that avenue being engaged and all.

Good luck! Have to agree with you, half the battle's won since you both knopw that you two have things in common to talk to each other about. You just have to remember that when you meet in person.

Originally posted by Shell
Ryan, that's great news! I wish you the very best of luck! Don't be so hard on yourself....you're a very handsome man! I'm sure she feels the same!

As for a completely blind date, I've never done it nor could I. Call me shallow, but looks are important to me. I have to feel that physical attraction along with the chemistry & personality attraction.

Can I ask why you didn't ask for her picture? Hope your date goes beautifully for you! You deserve it Ryan! Plus, we all want to know all the details...well, most of the details!

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Awww... thanks Shell! Like I've said once before, I don't think equal rights have reached the point where women commit as many, (or any) roadside crimes as men. I think this relates in some way to a one-sided blind date for women, so I guess I'm not surprised if there are women who wouldn't do this.

I wouldn't normally do this myself. I don't even look at profiles without a photo, but she had the guts to contact me, so I'm intrigued. I did ask for a photo, but she doesn't have one on her computer in any form. I agree about the physical chemistry though. There has to be some. Personality just doesn't count for everything. And yes, I'll have to remember what we have in common and fill in the rest with lots kidding around. (I just hope I can remember to bring my wits. )

I met Bill, on a blind date. We've been together, for 2 1/2 years, have bought a house and acquired three cats and two dogs. Not bad, for a blind date.

ryan, i want to wish you luck on your blind date. you seem like a nice guy and i hope she turns out to be a treasure.

i have been out on a few blind dates in my time. a few good and a few not-so-good. i always teased my friends that i could tell what they REALLY thought of me when they said "oh this guy would be great for you" and then you see the guy.

Ryan good luck on the date! Don't worry about it, though. You have already impressed all us ladies here so a one on one should be a breeze.

Thanks you two! I am really looking forward to it. I think reading and posting here, (however limited or contrived) has somehow made this easier to try again.

Katl8e, yeah that's a pretty good result for a blind date.

Too cool, Ryan!! Glad you're moving on,
and crossing my fingers for a very good date for you. No experience with 'net or blind dating to share, but can't wait to hear how it goes for you.

Ken and I meet on a blind date..7 years later we are an old married couple of 1 year

Have a great time on your date

Good luck on your blind date!

I've had several double blind dates...friends set us up and wouldn't give either of us descriptions. One was PUMPKIN HEAD (his head was THAT BIG with red hair) But I've also had a few work out. As a matter of fact, my life partner was a double blind date. We've been together for 6 yrs now.

As for physical attraction, that build with time. Lust comes in a flash, love takes time. And a long term relationship isn't built on lust.

Lots of good luck Ryan.

Ryan, good luck on your date! I am sure it will work out just fine!! Any woman would be lucky to meet someone as nice as you! Let us know how it goes!

I actually belonged to a dating service for a short time when I was much younger (and single, but I guess that goes without saying...) I had just moved to a new city and didn't know anyone. Apparently there were many more men than women who belonged, because at the start of each new period I would get, like, 30 profiles of guys, and each of them would have received about 2 profiles of women. So I ended up going on lots of blind dates, and actually had a pretty good time on most of them. Of course there were some that didn't click, and one that was pretty scary, but for the most part they were just trying to meet people too.

None of them worked out for anything really long-term, but I did go out several times with a few of them, and ended up dropping out of the service to date one of them more seriously (we eventually broke up, but like I said, I was pretty young). But I found that blind dates could really be a lot of fun. I think you have to be ready to accept that a major love connection isn't probably going to happen every time (that all-important chemistry just might not be there), but I think you can still have a good time with someone even if you don't hit it off in that way.

I hope you have a terrific time on your date!!! You'll have to tell us all about it!

I met my new beau on line.

I have been to two blind dates. The first (a long and very funny story! ) was this guy I had known when I was 6 and he was 11 (I think), and I actually had my first crush on his brother, who was 9 then. He asked my relative to ask me to dinner along with some more people, wich she did, so it was a semi blind date. He fell in love, but I didn´t, but I couldn´t get rid of him and I had my flat full of flowers and him talking to my anwering mashine everyday...He finally ALLMOST stopped phoning me when I told him I was starting to see and old friend...which actually was my friend "Philip" - must have been a french guy, and was in fact my refrigerator

The other time a mutual friend set us up for a dinner in a restaurant, unfortunately my friend cheted and showed him pics of me, so I asked for pics of him as well, but would have wanted it to be completely "blind". We also changed emails for a few days before the date.
That date went wery well, to say the least...he almost moved in the same day and allmost 4 years later we still live together and have a son!

As for not seeing each other before, I thought of the date as a "nothing to loose" thing, I wanted to go with open mind, for the worst it would be one lousy evening, but it could turn out to be a fun evening, and as I had nothing better to do, why not? But I had my friend telling me it was a nice guy, so maybe it was not a chanche. But still, thinking about it, even if I didn´t know anyone who knew him...I think if would be fun to have a completely blind date! But then again, our community does not have as many dangerous people as in the US...

Am I going in circles here?

Good luck on you date, since you have "spoken" on the internet, and found a connection there, there is nothing to worry about. For me the "mental" connection weighs the most, and if that is there, the physical connection will follow.

lots of luck Ryan, hope you two hit it off, you never know, i will Echo Shell, your family hee must have some details

Thanks everyone! I'll have some details by Friday or Saturday.

Goodluck with the date! Hopefully shes a hottie right?

Peace,
Brandon