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Been on four dates with a new guy and feeling like we have a lot of important things in common, value and lifestyle wise, but feeling a little torn on an emotional connection so far, but maybe its too early to tell so I'm trying to give it time. Feeling like he's much more analytical while I am much more of a feeler. Our dates have all been very casual, Each one has basically been going out for happy hour drinks and apps (once lunch and then bar hopped a bit) and after the last date it hit me that we've done the same thing each time, and how it would be awesome to cook dinner or something at one of our houses to mix up the environment and allow for maybe more intimate/personal conversations. I wish he would suggest it and am not sure why he hasn't but I guess at this point I might have to. I'm not a big drinker either so maybe I need to suggest we do something non-drinking and see how he responds.

There's one thing that's bothering me which I'm not sure if I'm blowing out of proportion but I guess this is the place to put it out there - we were making out in my car before his Uber got there to pick him up, this was the most recent date and second time we'd made out but both just when we were saying goodbye in public so not like super long, and this time as we were kissing he moved my hand to his crotch, which took me by surprise and while in the moment I just let it be, now after the fact it's really been bothering me. I think because I wasn't expecting that to happen and I wasn't honestly really ready to have my hand there, as we hadn't had too many intimate moments yet. I would have rather we just kissed and he had said something sweet about how he enjoyed it, not moved my hand to his crotch. It threw me off because we hadn't even been kissing for barely a moment and a now after the fact I can't stop thinking about it. I'm not sure if I'm just over-reacting because I'm a little cautious after a recent breakup with someone where things moved way too fast and really kind of messed with me a bit, though it was luckily a very short relationship...anyways appreciate anyone's thoughts or input.

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