Okeydokey Posted December 24, 2009 Posted December 24, 2009 Guys, do men feel uncomfortable about calling a new woman on her landline (home phone)? Here's the deal, if you want background. We don't work in the same office but we occasionally collaborate on the phone over some cases. Went on a date a few weeks back and he wrote right afterwards to say what a wonderful time he had. Then, he said he would call last week about plans for the weekend, no call. Today we were chatting (and it was a teensy bit awkward since the no phone call was hanging out there) and at the end of the call he suggests that we get together, asks when I'm coming back from the holidays, and suggests we hang out the day after I get back. Then says "You don't have a cell phone, huh?" I'm thinking he's implying I didn't call because its your home phone (didn't occur me until I was driving home otherwise I would have just asked if it made him uncomfortable to call me at home). He knows perfectly well I don't have one bc it has come up. I'm thinking that it felt like an uncomfortable big jump from this rigid professional realm that we're getting to know each other in into my super personal space of home phone.
sonicranger Posted December 24, 2009 Posted December 24, 2009 Well, ya its just weird. He's known you only professionally, you've chatted at work, hung out after work or whatever and are now establishing "something". In this day and age, with no cell phone it's just kind of odd. The fact you have a home phone only, just seems so serious, even tho it clearly isn't. You just need to tell him that you have a home phone and thats it. He is welcome to call you whenever and that theres nothing to it. It's just the dating rules haven't been established, you two need to figure them out as you go.
boogieboy Posted December 24, 2009 Posted December 24, 2009 If he TOOK your number, he has no excuse for not calling, landline or not. He just didnt want to call you. Tread lightly with this one....
Author Okeydokey Posted December 24, 2009 Author Posted December 24, 2009 He didn't take my home number per se. When we were making plans to hang out, I gave it to him because the locations is hard to find in case he had trouble finding the place since he is new in town.
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