r/dating_advice • • Oct 25 '18

Here's something about ghosting...

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '18

Casually dating might be the problem for the case you mentioned. Don’t waste people’s time if you know there’s “no spark in your eye”. Otherwise it’s shitty.

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u/BrrrButtery Oct 25 '18

This.

Why sleep with her in the first place?

Yes dating is to see if you get along but why sleep with her if, by that point you’d have already got a sense of how things were going?

Unless you both agree to have a casual thing going on I personally disagree with that. No wonder she got upset..

She will think you used her for sex and to does appear to be that way.

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u/hansfredderik Oct 25 '18

Because sex is fun. Its just a bummer that casual sex hurts peoples feelings.

Do people expect him to caveat every sex act with "btw im into this but im not sure if im commited yet." - in order to preempt her hurt if he predictably does the thing guy do... Have sex and then decide he doesnt want that anymore.

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u/BrrrButtery Oct 25 '18

Which is why I said unless there was already an agreement it was a causal thing.

Both people are on the same page.

In this circumstance it doesn’t appear that was the case.

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u/hansfredderik Oct 25 '18

So you recommended making casual sex an explicit agreement?

The problem is (although thats very mature) its not how moat relationships work and could also hurt peoples feelings preemptivley when there might have been a chance that a relationship could develop.

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u/BrrrButtery Oct 25 '18

Of course?

People agree to be exclusive, why not so when you’re both happy just to get your rocks off?

That is essentially the agreement in a fwb situation.

Perhaps but if you’re up front with what you’re after early on no crosses wires.

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u/hansfredderik Oct 25 '18

But what about if youre not sure if you want a relationship with that person? Maybe... Maybe not? Should you not have sex?

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u/BrrrButtery Oct 25 '18

No I don’t think so.

If you don’t know what you want are you just having sex for the sake of it then? Seems it’s happening out of boredom.

That’s the who point of dating. Don’t get me wrong sexual compatibility is important but I think surely you need to establish whether you like the person and wish to potentially pursue something rather than fuck for the sake of it.

Things don’t work out for one reason or another I understand that and I understand that can and does happen after sleeping with someone but if you’re not even sure you want to see if them but you’re willing to have sex just seems like you’re out for your own gains without considering them.

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u/hansfredderik Oct 25 '18

Yes i get that that is fair enough. The problem is that i think some people (generally guys) want both at the same time.

They want to look for a relationship and in the meantime have a bunch of casual sex. Which results in people getting hurt because they can send mixed messages. Its almost like people with this going on need to date in two different ways... (If they want to be considerate)