Horse and carriage ride? Wow, wish that was offered where I live. Need a bigger city for it. But it seems like something I would
only do for a long-term girlfriend/fiancee/wife and not a girl this early. At this stage, you should be testing her out to see if she's up to your standards or if she's just like all the other girls out there.
I think you really need to go with your gut on this. Anyways, I have a question: when did you two kiss? You've met up three times already. Did you kiss/make out on the first date? Second? Before the first date? I need more info. 'Cause if she's leaning away from you on your third encounter, something's definitely wrong (read: no chemistry). And even when you explicitly bring it up, she "stayed exactly where she was." Dude, this is significant. Any girl who truly likes you is going to be touching you all the time, even when you don't expect it or want it. She'll find any excuse TO touch you and get closer to you.
It's awesome you play guitar -- a lot of women like musical talent. I'm still learning guitar (not acoustic), but I have lots of piano experience. Anyway, it seems like you were focusing your musical powers with the wrong mentality. It seems like you're trying to "woo" her or "win" her, and those actions scream "NICE GUY."
It's cute that you tried to jokingly put your arm around her like they did in the Simpsons episode, but that automatically made it unoriginal. You're copying another idea (following) instead of coming up with your own ideas (taking the lead).
When you say you "made it very clear to her that" you weren't "the kind of guy to grope her," why did you say this? How did you say it? And why did this even need to come up? Chicks who like you love getting groped, LOL. And they'll do most of the groping.
THEY will start the grope war with you.
She also "told you that she didn't want you to do it," -- whoa! If a girl is rejecting your arm, what makes you think she'll NOT reject the whole of your body?
"Flash forward to the end of the date" -- OK, some more flags with this paragraph:
1) If it's this early in any dating phase, don't be her transportation slave/chaffeur. Meet up mutually and both provide your own transportation/escape routes.
2) 40+ miles away? You're nuts. That's over 80 miles on your car. Why not have both people meet up somewhere else? MUTUAL. EQUAL.
3) Kissing a girl at her door is so cliche and cheesy. Avoid it. It's also weird that at date #3 you're only trying to kiss her on the CHEEK. I'm gonna assume you two never even kissed anytime earlier. That spells no chemistry to me. Also, she even said "don't try to kiss me." WHOA! RED FLAG! ABORT! She already rejected your arm, and now she's rejecting your face.
OK, next paragraph:
1) You said you put in soooo much effort and she's only treating you like "some kind of skin disease when it comes to physical affection." Lesson: Don't put in too much effort on a woman,
especially this early. Only when she has
earned your effort (i.e., she's your girlfriend), should you put in any effort (cuz that means she deserves it).
2) "She says she is attracted" to you but her body language keeps telling you otherwise. While I'm a STRONG believer in honesty (as a Christian), there are still
so many liars and hypocrites out there. This girl is a liar and hypocrite. She says she's attracted to you? She's lying. Do you like liars? NO. You shouldn't. If she liked you, her words would match her body language. And they would be positive and awesome.
3) She told you she prefers to wait to kiss a guy until the 4th or 5th date? B-S! Pure B-S. Once again, she may say she's a Christian, but she's telling you another LIE. Reject her. Reject all liars. (But the take-home point here is any girl who really likes you loves getting close to you and would want to kiss you on the first date or even BEFORE the first date. I promise you.)
Next paragraph:
1) You're not moving too fast. You're moving too slow. And erratically. Your changing lanes and going across the median. You're driving in the shoulder.
2) Both commited to abstinence? Maybe you, but she probably isn't. With YOU, yes. LOL. But you'll see her get physical with another guy. Watch it. It's really painful to see. But you should learn from this to minimize future pain.
My first reply in this thread was for this post. I disagree that it's too soon to know. I think there's dozens of signs that you posted about here, and I bet there's HUNDREDS of signs that you missed in person and/or you're not sharing in the original post.
1) You're doing whatever she says. Read the above posts with me and Gardener101. She told me to stop calling her a "weirdo" or she'd "go out and tell mommy and daddy" instead of handling the situation like an adult and not reporting a silly comment in a post. What I was trying to demonstrate with my interactions with Gardener101 is that you
should not be a woman's slave. You should be
her equal. Don't do everything she says. She's not your boss. Your mistake is she wanted to watch Simpsons, so you did. She wanted to watch TV during dinner, so you did. She wanted to play Grand Theft Auto, so you did. There's two problems with this:
a) You're doing whatever she says.
b) You're not being a man and taking the lead. You're letting HER take the lead. Always.
2) You and Gardener are correct that you're doing "too much too soon." She doesn't have intimacy issues, she IS playing you. You're my Christian brother, so I'm only saying these things to be 100% honest to you, not to hate on you or anything. Anyways, do not "give her a few more dates to open up to you." A girl should be open to you before the first date. Otherwise there's no chemistry. No attraction.
3) If a woman truly liked you, she would want the TV *OFF* during dinner. That way she can focus on the conversation -- the YOU and HER -- rather than have the chit-chat of incessant TV noise in the background. She wanted the TV on during dinner so that she could pay
LESS attention to you, and more to
anything but you. Huge red flag. If a girl is into the TV more than her date, that's a problem.
OK, this is the first G101 post in this thread I 100% agree with. Shocking, I know.
Only problem is she typed "cut her lose" instead of "cut her
loose," but I'll let it slide. I can't expect perfection.
1) E-mailing every day? Way to often. You clearly have too much free time, and too much free time for her. You're smothering her with attention. Don't do it. For example, I still have a backlog of e-mails, messages, and phone numbers from women going back to... holy moly 2005? I'm
SO UNBELIEVABLY BEHIND in getting back to women. I have to pick and choose the ones I care about the most -- the ones I'm attracted to the most.
2) Talking on the phone for several hours? Same mistake. This is a GOOD thing if she's your girlfriend, but if this is some random girl, you're giving her too much of yourself by talking on the phone for several hours this early.
3) Beein on 10 dates instead of 3? This is all in your head. This is all your mental fantasy. What truly matters is reality.
Quoting for truth. If a woman isn't comfortable with you, she won't be affectionate. The key is to MAKE her comfortable with you ASAP. In other words, BEFORE the first date she should already be smothering you, lol.
*vomit*
"Extra careful because she is extra attracted to you"??? AlexeiKaramazov, please ignore this advice. It's pretty much the opposite of what's going on. I'm not insulting or attacking trulyliving, I'm only disagreeing.
hahahahaha.
Reporting someone is childish and it's equivalent to running to mommy and daddy instead of handling tension on your own like an adult, and you know this. And like I said earlier in this very long post of mine, I'm only causing trouble with you to illustrate to the OP that a man should be fun-loving,
daring, and should not do everything a woman tells him to do.
So neener neener Gardener101.
Quoting for truth.
Wow, this post of mine took like an hour.