When's the last time you went on a date?

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Friday night (3 days ago).

However, before that, it had been...14 years (?!) since I'd gone on "date". Been married, divorced, and in & out of another relationship-without actually dating (just inadvertently meeting people who knew other people I knew, hanging out, and somehow hooking up).

So the whole "formal" date routine/ritual is unfamiliar to me except as a bizarre cultural artifact that supposedly is means by which "single people seek same"-for suitability assessment leading to possible pairing.

Anyway, the date went okay, it was double date-the other couple's talkativeness was handy distraction from awkwardness. Had nice time, but the guy didn't call back-of course. Didn't get much sense of his personality, so nothing to miss.

Dislike having no current "project" ("special interest" person about whom I can study/learn, and vice versa) for which to apply myself. It's anxiety-provoking to be "idling", running in place, waiting for next opportunity to appear, in which I can again practice my social skills.

Almost had a date on Friday, but almost dating is about the same as almost walking.

3 years for me.

I have been single for about 7 months, before that I had the same boyfriend for almost two years. The last time I went on a date with him was in December because we went to different schools (me-university, him-naval training school). Since then I have liked two gay guys, a straight girl, and the one possibility (a lesbian girl, we agreed to be friends if not more) (as you can tell I am a bi girl). I visited her when I was visiting my brother (she lives in Los Angeles, my brother lives mainly in Orange County, and I live mainly in Colorado). We spent an afternoon/evening together but my brother was there also and we are both currently single, we start school at the same school in less than a week so maybe we will become girlfriends this school year. I have also gone to special events on campus with one of my guy friends (he is gay, I like him as more than a friend, he has a boyfriend, and he knows I like him).

Have date tonight & it's making me terribly anxious, simply because it's new unfamiliar person (novelty is excruciatingly uncomfortable for me to navigate/negotiate).

Plan is to hang out at my place rather than go out somewhere, as is my preference-though of course I worry that'll give "wrong idea". I'm not an "activity" sort of person. Am private, contemplative, mentally-oriented, thus am disinclined to waste money & be miserable going out to spend money. Can't properly get to know someone in public anyway, that's just how it is for my personality/temperament.

Of course, this guy was a "no-show" once already (and subsequently apologized & asked for another chance), so it's tough to keep in mind that this may not even happen-and I won't know until the last minute.

The last time I went on a date was....sometime in the 1970s. People don't date anymore. At least not in the sense of a couple going out and the guy pays for a dinner and movie or whatever. Do they? I don't know anyone who goes on dates anymore.

I've never been on a date.

I'm kind of breaking up with my girlfriend right now, but we went on a date last saturday and I stayed at her place on the weekendsfor the last month now.

2 years ago.

Wait didn't I answere this already?

12 years ago

3 or 4 years ago.

broke the 18 year mark 2 weeks ago...

Not sure what actually counts as a date at this point, but I'm out with my BF like every day.

i have never been on a "real" date