Well, I wasn't expecting such a detailed response. I greatly appreciate the support.

A couple of things: first, to the point of being "too nice". Maybe I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of that being a bad thing, but when she said it I took it as a compliment. I try and make it a point to be friendly to people unless they have given me a direct reason not to. I hear all the time from customers and coworkers about how nice I am, and while I try to restrain from being too prideful in that, it does make me feel good to hear it. Like I'm putting some positive energy back in to the world. Anyway, before I get too off topic, I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm having a hard time seeing being too nice as a bad thing. I mean, I suppose to some I might come off as meek, but do women really reject men for being "too nice" as often as people claim? I've fallen into the "nice guy put in the friendzone" trope before and I'd like to avoid doing so again.

To the point of our kissing, I think you're reading a bit too much into that sentence. I don't think I'm a bad kisser; I've had multiple girls tell me that I was good at it. That's why I'm being so critical about my kissing this time; because I know I didn't perform as well as I have before. I suppose I was too taken aback by the thought that this kiss was actually happening. It's true that I might be, rather probably am hyping up how good she was, but I know on my end that my work was sloppy. I think being self-critical and meek are two different things, at least in this instance.

I do, however, entirely agree that I never should have sent that text. I even remember feeling desperation welling up in me as I was typing it out. I should have just asked her out in person and left it at that. All this talk about her disrespecting me, attacking my dignity, and her thinking that I should have "put her in her place"... This is where I disagree. I don't see her ignoring me as disrespect, necessarily. I mean, yeah it sucks but she has every right to not date me if she doesn't want to. She comes off as a shy girl; maybe she just didn't know how to handle the situation. Maybe she didn't want to hurt my feelings. My point is that I can't say for certain why she's ignoring me, therefore to take it as a personal affront would be too hasty of me. She may very well have the best of intentions, just executed them poorly.

All in all, I'm not really looking to date multiple women at once, play hard to get, or anything like that. This was just a case of me meeting a girl by happenstance and being attracted to her. That's how pretty much all of my relationships go. Going out with the intention of picking up girls is fine and all, and if it works for you then by all means more power to you, but it's just not for me. I'm looking for someone I could potentially spend the rest of my life with, not a pair of pants to get into for a few weeks and get bored. I've experienced the latter too much already.

Thank you again for taking the time out of your day to give me such a thorough response. I appreciate your support!