What happened to "going steady"? Where it was common to go out on one date and not expect anything from anyone. Now we hangout out once with someone and expect more. Or in other cases, we talk to someone once and right away think of dating. Both are bad.

I am personally guilty of this. I talk to someone once and automatically think about more. What happened to taking things slow and getting to know someone in person? Does everyone want to text each other these days? Is flirty texting a thing now? Hiding behind a screen, where interpretations happen. I'm sick of having to turn into Sherlock Holmes just to try to figure out if a guy likes me or not.

Unfortunately I think I live in the past. Because I ask people to hangout all the time. And sure I think, "What if?" But if we are just friends then I will choose that over nothing. I ask people with the intention of nothing at all and somewhere in between all the texting, things get misheard. People think they are going on a date and in reality that was never the goal.

I think going and grabbing a bite to eat is okay to do. And just hanging out at the library is fine. Can we just slow things down? Why is everyone rushing into relationships like all the fish in the sea are the only ones you see? I promise you will find someone. If we actually just hangout and something turns to more, that's great and hell yeah I'll be excited. But if not, let's just keep hanging out and not make things so awkward. I promise I'll get over it.

Can we go out a lot of times before thinking of something more? Lets just put all the strings and problems to the side and be friends. Let's not worry about what others will think and tell them that we are just friends. They won't believe it, but they really should because that's all I want to be.