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How many dates before you are boyfriend/girlfriend?

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Haha, well, I'd definitely count those as buying signals
In the words of my dear sweetie "Knarf" aka "duh"

Yeah, definately the "touch" thing... I am very guilty of that one.

Which was/is fine with my BF because he is too..

He would always try to give me bear hugs before we were dating...and it kinda freaked me out cuz I didnt know how to take it!
 
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Agreed. Then you won't be suprised about a certain thing about her, because that might happen if the first date is your first experience getting to know her.

Nice job of compressing what can often be a long explanation.
 
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Until I married my ex-h I always dated one person at a time and most dates turned into relationships.

Even though you had a great first date, I think you may be jumping the gun here. I've seen too many people get hurt lately by commiting way too soon. At my age I do want to know "intentions" early on, but that doesn't mean we have to define the relationship and be exclusive after a few dates. It would be better to really know a lot more about them, mannerisms, how they act with others, before being exclusive.

If you can keep in mind that you should be getting to know her as a friend first before pinning all kinds of hopes on the relationship before it gets started, it might cut down on the possibility of heartbreak too-maybe.

With that said, after the first and second date with my ex-bf, I didn't want to see anyone else. We committed early and invested a lot of serious emotions into someone we didn't know as a "friend". A lot of pain was involved when we broke up.
 
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I'm guessing it's different for everyone. Though this is something I'm kind of wondering myself at the moment. Not worried about it though. Those things tend to work themselves out. Anyone you are considering being exclusive with, you should be communicating openly, regularily and clearly with. . . thus I think this would naturally come up sooner rather than later.
 
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