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Originally Posted by supafrey
You guys are being stupid in ways only people that analyze these situations intellectually on internet forums can be.
He doesn't owe this girl anything. A lovely girl is asking him out for dinner. As such, he should be polite. That's it. Politeness is absolutely NOT going to a restaurant we can't stand and having an awkward conversation about feelings and intentions and plans, whatever. Adults can go on dates with one another without owing them any sort of sexual advances or financial responsibility, etc.
His new details may make this moot anyway, but I really didn't disagree with much of any of your post. I certainly wasn't advocating having some big talk to make sure that she knew that he didn't want her. I would have just said to make sure that you go dutch if you remain uninterested, which is a strong enough signal through actions without being awkward at all.
I was just strongly disagreeing with GG's line, "So what if you're a tease? Girls do that all the time." He hasn't done anything wrong yet, and it doesn't sound like he's going to, I just didn't like the advice of telling him to serve his own self-interest by optimizing how he can best use her to hook up with whoever.
But anyway, it appears that we were getting ahead of ourselves. To be fair, the OP of this situation put us there.