This girl I’ve been dating took down her profile over the holidays. Well, it’s been a while and it’s not up yet. I think she’s cute and I like her. I want to get to know her better but… how do I bring up being exclusive? (Or what if I’m just reading into it and she just forgot to put it back up?)
Edit: It’s been about a month and a couple weeks since we started dating.
Edit2: I didn’t notice she took it down, she told me she took it down because she’d be away for Christmas.
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[The fact that she took it down seems like a good sign. I don’t think it’s reading too much into it to think that you might be the reason she did it. How long have the two of you been dating? Have you gone out on more than a few dates? If you haven’t gone out for that long, you might consider waiting a little bit longer to bring it up. Just tell her you’ve really enjoyed getting to know her, you like her, and you wanted to see how she felt about the relationship. It may even come up organically.
Do you think she’d be weirded out if you mentioned that she saw she took her profile down? You could always use that as a stepping stone too.
[The females I know who have done online dating are usually fairly eager to take their profile down once they meet someone. It only takes so many messages from guys 20 to 30 years their elder before they realize prince charming might not be in a sea of geriatric horn dogs after some young tail. Not to diminish her decision or anything, but I’d say it’s a good sign. If it goes back up while you’re dating, however, you may want to re-evaluate your tactical approach and skill level as her boyfriend.
[Did she say any other reason why she took it down besides “away for Christmas”? I’d say if she took it down, that either means a) she has reason to believe you 2 are being exclusive or b) she joined some new cult that prohibits online dating profiles. For your sake, I’m hoping it’s choice a, but you should still talk to her about it. It’ll at least rule out choice b that way. 😉
[If you don’t want to wait for a standardized timeline to become exclusive, don’t do it. Everyone’s relationship moves at their own pace and you can’t go by some specific timeline. If you want to ask her if she wants to be exclusive, do it! Don’t make a big to-do about it, just say “Hey, I’ve been having a lot of fun with you and want to get to know you better. Do you want to be exclusive?”
I personally think that we make way too big a deal out of most things that should be simple communications and it makes things way more difficult than they need to be. Don’t blow this out of proportion and it should be as easy as pie!
[Did you meet online? If you noticed that she took her profile down, that means you have an active profile as well, right? So why not just casually mention to her that you took your profile down (and actually do it), and see what she says, and where that leads? It opens up the conversation enough for you to get a sense of where she stands, then you can further discuss it if she fesses up to taking hers down as well. Then you can just be straightforward and tell her that you’d like to be exclusive, and you’ll find out quickly if you’re on the same page.
I don’t think a month and a half is necessarily too soon for that conversation, as each relationship obviously develops at different rates.
[So you’re almost at two months of dating. I’d say give it another month or so, and bring it up – three months seems pretty average for the exclusive talk. You can always say something along the lines of, so, did you ever put your profile back up? I hope you not 🙂
[I’m super-stoked for you. Do you know why?
Because our edit blurb functionality is apparently working! 😉