wayoverdue Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 I met a girl a couple of weeks ago at a business related happy hour that I really liked. Initially, she was trying to sell me the services her company provides. We went to lunch and had a great time, for two hours. Little talk at all about her business services/proposal. In fact, she mentioned she wanted to get together without regard to the services. Later in that week, I asked her out for drinks and she met me in a nice restaurant and for four hours we talked and laughed and again had a great time. Constant eye contact, she told me all about her family, job, buying a house, etc. At one point she held my hand briefly and told me she really liked how I was so calm. At the end of the night, we had a long hug and talked about getting together again and she seemed all for it. I bought dinner and the lunch before and she wanted to pay towards this and I said "you can buy next time" and she insisted, "yes". So the next day after dinner I invited her to a BBQ at my friends house. She said she couldn't because she had guests coming to town, which I know was true. So fast forward to yesterday.... I sent her a txt and said "I really enjoyed seeing you last week and would like to have dinner with you this thursday, are you available?". This morning, very early I get a txt saying "no, I am not available thursday, I have a dinner party, etc., and then a reference back to the business proposal. She did not offer an alternate date, and since I've now been turned down twice (for what seem to be valid reasons) I'm just wondering where to go with this and whether to try again, and how? I didn't want to ask her out by txt, but my friend convinced me that I didn't know her good enough to try and force an immediate answer from her on a phone call, and that I should do it by txt to allow her time to consider. And also, she's 38 and a txt'r. I'm 52, prefer the phone. So now, I want to call her and ask, "when are you available", but not sure how that might go.
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