Friends Dating Places

One of the hardest things when you’re interested in friends dating is telling the difference between a hang out and a date. Nothing is more embarrassing than telling your friends about your romantic date, when he’s telling your friends that the two of you were just hanging out.

Without having to flat out ask him, how can you tell the difference? There’s always signs people will send out if they want your time together to be a little something more than just friends hanging out.

How did he ask you to hang out?

If a guy is interested in you, he’ll want to break the pattern the two of you usually had as friends. Does he usually text you to make plans, and this time he picked up the phone to make a call? Any sign of unnecessary effort may mean that he’s trying to cross the dating line.

Did he suggest that others come?

A lot of the time when friends are going out, they’ll suggest for others to come along. If he specifically keeps it to just the two of you, chances are he wants you to spend your time together alone for a reason.

Are his mannerisms different?

You know those little quirks everyone has? If you notice his have suddenly changed, it’s probably out of nervousness. A lot of guys don’t realize it, but the way they move and the things they say are slightly altered when they’re nervous. Since you’re already friends, the nerves aren’t just from hanging out with you, but from the timidness of having to make a move.

Is his body language more intimate?

If a guy is into you, he’ll usually lean in while talking or listening, and have as much physical contact as possible. This can be anything from touching your hand more often to guiding you by placing his hand on the small of your back as you walk through a door.

If anything changes out of your regular routine, but some thought into why it has changed. If he’s acting how you feel with your new urges to go from friends to dating, he’s probably thinking the same thing you are! And you, my friend, are on a date.

Guys seem to think it’s foolproof. Dinner and a movie, the date that takes no thought, but seems to be a tradition when guys get to pick what they’re doing for the evening. The only downside of dinner and a movie? No matter how new the restaurant, or how good the movie, you always get da ja vu when you’re doing it. Repetitiveness does nothing to spark romance, but if you play it right, this age old tradition may just work in your favor.

The first thing you have to do is make sure the movie is going to have an emotional connection. If there’s only comedies and action thrillers in the theaters, find a cinema that plays old movies and take her to see something she could have an emotional connection to. Has she mentioned before that Casablanca is her favorite movie? Well imagine how excited she would be to see it on the big screen again. Almost every big city, and even a few smaller towns, have a movie theater that plays old movies.

Since it’s friends dating and you probably already know their sweet tooth, so use that to your advantage and stock up on her favorite snacks before hand. Having access to something she can’t buy in the theater will make you look sweeter than the M&Ms.

If you’re feeling extra flirty while out, make a game out of the movie! Set rules before the film starts like every time they kiss in the movie, you have to kiss in the theater. It’ll give you time to concentrate on if the movie is bad, and will make the night more memorable than your average trip to the movies.

If you are going to do a night at the movies, make it special! Your search for dating will come to a quick close when you woo your friend with a memorable trip to the cinema.

When friends dating are first starting their relationships, it’s difficult to make the transition. Chances are that if they’ve been a friend for a long time, the two of you have mutual friends and you spend most of your time together with them as well. There’s a reason ‘Two’s a Company, Three’s a Crowd’ is such a popular saying– because it’s true.

Putting aside bonding time between just the two of you is essential to take your relationship from a friendship to something more.

A lot of couples make the mistake of thinking since they got to know each other with friends around, that they should keep themselves surrounded with friends whenever they’re together to create the same atmosphere they’re used to, but this is an early death sentence to your relationship.

There should always be a separation of friends and relationships, even if you do have a merged world of the two. What I mean by that is it’s fine if you have time with the person you’re dating and your friends together, but that time should be limited when the relationship is fresh. You need to have intimate alone time so you can distinctly separate your former platonic relationship, and start developing your newly formed romance.

It’s always been said by dating experts that it’s extremely important to involve your friends in your relationship, but that’s coming from the stand point that your new love interest isn’t already associated with your friends. Introducing your date to your social group is a way of letting them know how serious you are about the relationship. Starting off as friends is the opposite– instead of spending more time with your friends, you should concentrate on spending less time with them and more time alone together.

When you’re transitioning into romancing a friend, always do it with the most private time you can. Keeping your friends constantly involved can not only be harmful to the development of your relationship, but it can hurt your intimacy. You need to develop as a pair before you can go back to joining your group as a whole.