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Reply 1
Lana
I've never been on a real date unless you call hanging out a date.

That so sad. :rolleyes:


i suspect many people havent.

what age are you
I don't think my boyfriend of 18 months and I ever went on a single date. (If you consider a date to be what you do before you become a couple.) Hanging out is much more fun anyway, and less pressured.

I went on a couple of dates in October/November with this guy called David, but I didn't really fancy him and didn't enjoy myself at all. I'd much rather chat to the guy I like in the pub when we're out as a group, to be honest.
Reply 3
technik
i suspect many people havent.

what age are you
Nearly 19.
Reply 4
I agree, when it's a prearranged "date" it can be more awkward because there are pressures that come with titleling something. I didn't really "date" boys when I was still in school, everything was done in groups or we got to know each other casually in class. I think dating is only necessary once you're out in the world and social activities need to be more arranged because we don't live with other people our age so much anymore and working full time we are too busy just to hang out.
Reply 5
The only problem i've got a minute I don't have time to hang out I'm always at work for college.
Reply 6
Life's a bitch, then you die.
Reply 7
2 5 +
Life's a bitch, then you die.
True!
Reply 8
I've only ever been on dates when I'm just starting going out with someone that I don't already know through friends or whatever. So thats about three :rolleyes:. However, saying thing, I don't know when dates stop becoming dates :confused:

I think its much more of an American thing really. Either that or I just watch too much Friends.
Reply 9
2 5 +
Life's a bitch, then you die.


If you're lucky, somwhere inbetween you become the Pope.
If you're lucky???
Reply 11
kingslaw
I think its much more of an American thing really. Either that or I just watch too much Friends.


Nah its mostly a sitcom thing. We also don't live in bright purple apartments :p: .
Reply 12
susiemakemeblue
If you're lucky???


The dude practically had those nuns in the palm of his hand.
Reply 13
katiesado
Nah its mostly a sitcom thing. We also don't live in bright purple apartments :p: .


Speak for yourself.



*Chandler walks in*

*Audience applauds*
kingslaw
The dude practically had those nuns in the palm of his hand.


Yeah but they are all celibate! (Or even if they're secretly not I doubt they do it with reckless abandon!) :wink:
Reply 15
I think it's more an American/older people thing. When you're in school you know people anyway and tend to hang around in groups, so if two people start "going out" then it just means they hang around with the same people whilst holding hands (and so on...) In uni, it depends how you know the person and how you meet, whether going out on dates is appropriate. I think once you're in the working world then it becomes more applied. In all the high school movies though, they seem to "date" a lot younger than we do.
Me neither.
susiemakemeblue
Yeah but they are all celibate! (Or even if they're secretly not I doubt they do it with reckless abandon!) :wink:


ooo you'd be surprised...
Lana
I've never been on a real date unless you call hanging out a date.

That so sad. :rolleyes:

never mind ey
I didnt really encounter people "dating" until I came to uni - at high school you were asked out by a boy/girl and then immediately were their girlfriend. I suppose the dating stage was before you got together, when you hung out in groups of friends to go bowling or to the cinema and flirted but werent alone so it wasnt a very threatening situation.
At uni, a lot of my friends meet guys in clubs, swap numbers, and then go on actual dates without ever becoming a couple. I was in a long term relationship until half a year ago so I'd never been on a proper date either, but now I have, and they're quite fun. My current love interest is officially just my "date" for now, as he lives too far away for us to become an official couple :frown: