The OcUK Relationship Counselling and Hugs Thread

finally returned to the UK again last night, swiss woman is talking about moving to the UK later in the year :D

I can't believe how much I miss her and her daughter being around. as soon as I landed in the UK I felt like just jumping on a plane straight back to hers
 
How does one greet someone you've been chatting with for a couple of weeks when you first meet up for your first 'date'? Hug? Kiss on the cheek? She's half Brazilian, half Italian.
 
Generally leave that til the end of the date..
At the beginning I normally just say hello unless it looks like they go for the one cheek to cheek thing. :D
Seems a bit forward to me to plant yourself straight on them with something.
 
Generally leave that til the end of the date..
At the beginning I normally just say hello unless it looks like they go for the one cheek to cheek thing. :D
Seems a bit forward to me to plant yourself straight on them with something.

From smile to hug, nothing more for me.
And aim for a kiss at the end if it went well, no kiss at the end is the biggest sign for me
 
finally returned to the UK again last night, swiss woman is talking about moving to the UK later in the year :D

I can't believe how much I miss her and her daughter being around. as soon as I landed in the UK I felt like just jumping on a plane straight back to hers

Thats a nice feeling isn't it. How long have you known her?
 
How does one greet someone you've been chatting with for a couple of weeks when you first meet up for your first 'date'? Hug? Kiss on the cheek? She's half Brazilian, half Italian.

A hug.

A hug lifts the mood and gets physical contact out of the way. A kiss is probably a bit much for the first meet. Just a hello sets the tone for the rest of the date.

Go for a good hug :)
 
Thats a nice feeling isn't it. How long have you known her?

I met her on irc and we talked for a few days in text.
moved to video/voice calls on the "line" app for mobiles for about 2 months then she asked if I wanted to go visit her for a few weeks over the Christmas period which ended up being for about 2 months...

I'm going back at the end of the month if I can convince my boss to let me work from "home" again :D

kinda crazy really, told her on irc when she came in to the chan asking to talk to someone about the channels purpose that she could talk to me if she wanted but I was boring. ( not a hook up channel)
neither of us was looking to hook up it just happened. even when we met it was supposed to be as friends although we were more than that on calls.
she only ever saw a few pictures of me although I saw her on cam all the time, I always thought of my self as ugly as **** so I''ve been camera shy my whole life and very few pics of me exist etc.

after I boarded the plane I was sat in my seat totally freaked out and filled with dread thinking what a horrible mistake it was to meet her...
I get to the airport and find the pizzeria we were supposed to meet at and she wasn't there, I try to ring her phone and the number doesn't work..
I've got no internet access to contact her via the "line" app and it wouldn't work with the airports free wifi...
I'm now totally freaking out almost shaking wondering wtf to do feeling completely lost in a strange land were everyone is speaking French or Swiss German ... I have her address but it's on the other side of the country, I've got a tourist train ticket but no idea how to really use their trains and I'm scarred as hell of boarding the wrong one..
I'm really thinking it would be easier to try and get a flight back to the UK at this point.

after about 30 mins I finally see her coming up the escalator and she looks way better in real life than she does on cam... now I'm more worried than ever and scared to talk to her, she gives me a hug and we don't really talk other than correcting each others phone numbers because she had put mine wrong in to her phone as well, she showed me a text she sent to the wrong number explaining she over slept and had to get a later train to Geneva....

I'm not feeling any better at this point and we head directly to the train station and hop on the train.
we sit down and she puts her hand on my leg and starts to cuddle me :D
not long after we share our first kiss and she admits she was also scared I wouldn't like her and she almost didn't come to meet me...

was like a dream after that, we held hands everywhere when we were out in public and she was always looking to me for kisses no matter how crowded it was or how many people could see which was pretty nice
 
I met her on irc and we talked for a few days in text.
moved to video/voice calls on the "line" app for mobiles for about 2 months then she asked if I wanted to go visit her for a few weeks over the Christmas period which ended up being for about 2 months...

I'm going back at the end of the month if I can convince my boss to let me work from "home" again :D

kinda crazy really, told her on irc when she came in to the chan asking to talk to someone about the channels purpose that she could talk to me if she wanted but I was boring. ( not a hook up channel)
neither of us was looking to hook up it just happened. even when we met it was supposed to be as friends although we were more than that on calls.
she only ever saw a few pictures of me although I saw her on cam all the time, I always thought of my self as ugly as **** so I''ve been camera shy my whole life and very few pics of me exist etc.

after I boarded the plane I was sat in my seat totally freaked out and filled with dread thinking what a horrible mistake it was to meet her...
I get to the airport and find the pizzeria we were supposed to meet at and she wasn't there, I try to ring her phone and the number doesn't work..
I've got no internet access to contact her via the "line" app and it wouldn't work with the airports free wifi...
I'm now totally freaking out almost shaking wondering wtf to do feeling completely lost in a strange land were everyone is speaking French or Swiss German ... I have her address but it's on the other side of the country, I've got a tourist train ticket but no idea how to really use their trains and I'm scarred as hell of boarding the wrong one..
I'm really thinking it would be easier to try and get a flight back to the UK at this point.

after about 30 mins I finally see her coming up the escalator and she looks way better in real life than she does on cam... now I'm more worried than ever and scared to talk to her, she gives me a hug and we don't really talk other than correcting each others phone numbers because she had put mine wrong in to her phone as well, she showed me a text she sent to the wrong number explaining she over slept and had to get a later train to Geneva....

I'm not feeling any better at this point and we head directly to the train station and hop on the train.
we sit down and she puts her hand on my leg and starts to cuddle me :D
not long after we share our first kiss and she admits she was also scared I wouldn't like her and she almost didn't come to meet me...

was like a dream after that, we held hands everywhere when we were out in public and she was always looking to me for kisses no matter how crowded it was or how many people could see which was pretty nice

Nice story! I know what you mean. I hate cams etc and avoid them like the plague.
Hope it all goes well.
I can't imagine how nervous you were jetting off! Especially when she wasn't where you expected her to be!

I decided to ask mine if she would like to do something nice over easter weekend for a night. She said she'd rather do two nights!

And I popped the question today "I know I'm going to sound like a massive geek, but do you like robot wars?"

Wow, she said she loved it and can't wait for the relay! :-D
 
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Had a nice date. We did a hug at the beginning and I got two kisses on both checks at the end. Not sure if I'm going to see her again though. We will see how the chat develops over the next few days.
 
I met her on irc and we talked for a few days in text.
moved to video/voice calls on the "line" app for mobiles for about 2 months then she asked if I wanted to go visit her for a few weeks over the Christmas period which ended up being for about 2 months...

I'm going back at the end of the month if I can convince my boss to let me work from "home" again :D

kinda crazy really, told her on irc when she came in to the chan asking to talk to someone about the channels purpose that she could talk to me if she wanted but I was boring. ( not a hook up channel)
neither of us was looking to hook up it just happened. even when we met it was supposed to be as friends although we were more than that on calls.
she only ever saw a few pictures of me although I saw her on cam all the time, I always thought of my self as ugly as **** so I''ve been camera shy my whole life and very few pics of me exist etc.

after I boarded the plane I was sat in my seat totally freaked out and filled with dread thinking what a horrible mistake it was to meet her...
I get to the airport and find the pizzeria we were supposed to meet at and she wasn't there, I try to ring her phone and the number doesn't work..
I've got no internet access to contact her via the "line" app and it wouldn't work with the airports free wifi...
I'm now totally freaking out almost shaking wondering wtf to do feeling completely lost in a strange land were everyone is speaking French or Swiss German ... I have her address but it's on the other side of the country, I've got a tourist train ticket but no idea how to really use their trains and I'm scarred as hell of boarding the wrong one..
I'm really thinking it would be easier to try and get a flight back to the UK at this point.

after about 30 mins I finally see her coming up the escalator and she looks way better in real life than she does on cam... now I'm more worried than ever and scared to talk to her, she gives me a hug and we don't really talk other than correcting each others phone numbers because she had put mine wrong in to her phone as well, she showed me a text she sent to the wrong number explaining she over slept and had to get a later train to Geneva....

I'm not feeling any better at this point and we head directly to the train station and hop on the train.
we sit down and she puts her hand on my leg and starts to cuddle me :D
not long after we share our first kiss and she admits she was also scared I wouldn't like her and she almost didn't come to meet me...

was like a dream after that, we held hands everywhere when we were out in public and she was always looking to me for kisses no matter how crowded it was or how many people could see which was pretty nice

Nice story even to a bitter cynic like me. Hope it works out for you.
 
I met her on irc and we talked for a few days in text.
moved to video/voice calls on the "line" app for mobiles for about 2 months then she asked if I wanted to go visit her for a few weeks over the Christmas period which ended up being for about 2 months...

I'm going back at the end of the month if I can convince my boss to let me work from "home" again :D

kinda crazy really, told her on irc when she came in to the chan asking to talk to someone about the channels purpose that she could talk to me if she wanted but I was boring. ( not a hook up channel)
neither of us was looking to hook up it just happened. even when we met it was supposed to be as friends although we were more than that on calls.
she only ever saw a few pictures of me although I saw her on cam all the time, I always thought of my self as ugly as **** so I''ve been camera shy my whole life and very few pics of me exist etc.

after I boarded the plane I was sat in my seat totally freaked out and filled with dread thinking what a horrible mistake it was to meet her...
I get to the airport and find the pizzeria we were supposed to meet at and she wasn't there, I try to ring her phone and the number doesn't work..
I've got no internet access to contact her via the "line" app and it wouldn't work with the airports free wifi...
I'm now totally freaking out almost shaking wondering wtf to do feeling completely lost in a strange land were everyone is speaking French or Swiss German ... I have her address but it's on the other side of the country, I've got a tourist train ticket but no idea how to really use their trains and I'm scarred as hell of boarding the wrong one..
I'm really thinking it would be easier to try and get a flight back to the UK at this point.

after about 30 mins I finally see her coming up the escalator and she looks way better in real life than she does on cam... now I'm more worried than ever and scared to talk to her, she gives me a hug and we don't really talk other than correcting each others phone numbers because she had put mine wrong in to her phone as well, she showed me a text she sent to the wrong number explaining she over slept and had to get a later train to Geneva....

I'm not feeling any better at this point and we head directly to the train station and hop on the train.
we sit down and she puts her hand on my leg and starts to cuddle me :D
not long after we share our first kiss and she admits she was also scared I wouldn't like her and she almost didn't come to meet me...

was like a dream after that, we held hands everywhere when we were out in public and she was always looking to me for kisses no matter how crowded it was or how many people could see which was pretty nice

A heartwarming story!

Just make it happen. Go out there again whatever your boss says. When you're old and on your deathbed which would you regret more; working hard or changing your life and meeting someone who could be the love of your life? Even if it doesn't work out (and it probably will) then it still sounds worth taking the risk.

I'm an old git now and one thing that life has taught me is to grab happiness with both hands and never let go.

Good luck.
 
A heartwarming story!

Just make it happen. Go out there again whatever your boss says. When you're old and on your deathbed which would you regret more; working hard or changing your life and meeting someone who could be the love of your life? Even if it doesn't work out (and it probably will) then it still sounds worth taking the risk.

I'm an old git now and one thing that life has taught me is to grab happiness with both hands and never let go.

Good luck.

I even realise this now. I don't care about my career (unless I can do something fulfilling)
But I don't want to be retired and alone. I suppose it's that I don't care about money too much.
Really is better to take the risk and it be wrong, then to regret something as a missed opportunity
Thats why I'm dating the girl I am now. Risked a friendship.
But I kind of knew I had to do it
 
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