Anti dating

My dating life is often a topic that includes much hilarity among my friends and I. I for one, have normally been in relationships, along with my girlfriends, so I am navigating through this thing called dating in the dark. Luckily for me, since I seem to not be very good at it, I can ignore the so called dating rules and let loose and just have fun. However, it brings me to wonder what dating truly constitutes these days. My girlfriends and I sit back and ponder these questions over endless phone calls and bottles of wine, analyzing text messages and actions. I went out on what my friend Kenny and I called an "antidate" two weeks ago. Neither one of us in relationships, but wanted to go to eat sushi and see a movie, we called upon each other to escape the bellowing stares of how odd it would have looked if we would have flown solo. It was not a date, but it was actually more of a resemblance of a date than what I have done with guys I'm actually "dating." To me hanging out is hanging out. If you are not asking me out to the cliche dinner and a movie or to hang out with you solo, then hanging out is not a date. I think that guys need a lesson on dating because girls will not think it is a date unless you pick them up, in your car and drive, take them somewhere where it is just the two of you, drop them off and walk them to the door narrowly escaping the awkward first date kiss. Anything else is not a date, it is two people who like to hang out simply doing just that "hanging out." So don't get mad when we make other plans, are hanging out with other people, or are actually going on dates with other guys. If you're not asking, neither are we. My guy friends complain to me constantly about how women are so complicated and they wish that they had a manual that came with us. We are not the complicated, we are not that hard to read, and surprisingly enough we take a lot of things at face value. It is what it is and unless you say you want a particular situation to change, we aren't bringing up the conversation. I think I'm going to write another book when I finish my dear Jose book about my dating adventures and I'll call it He's just THAT into you. Sometimes women are just as oblivious to the obvious as men and I'm beginning to fall into that category myself.