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Are you really dating 5 girls or just seeing one mainly and occasionally seeing the others? The most girls I've saw on a regular basis was 3 and that was tiring for me, I could only imagine that five girls would make me completely exhausted.
My advice is just spend the most time with the one you like best while occasionally seeing the others to see how it goes. That worked out best for me and you won't too needy
I'm at different stages of dating each of them. The HB 9 I've been on 5 or so dates with, the others just one or two. But all are interested and I contact them frequently. I figured the stale relationships would fizzle out and the ones I was interested would continue on naturally. So I'm not in a pure MLTR with these girls yet (except the 9) and probably don't want to be with all of them (time will tell). Also, I really do like going out to dinner/drinks with girls. Its not like this is a chore, but it just seems a tad tiring. And I see each girl probably once every couple of weeks or so (except the 9).
Furthermore, and to answer L.A. Tripp, I don't discuss my other dating with these girls. I probably could, but I really don't have a desire to. I doubt they assume we're exclusive at this point, and honestly, I don't think they are necessarily exclusive either. Remember, I met most of them online where they are continuously being offered to date. I'm not ashamed of how I'm handling them, and I think the standard dating protocol that I'm following of keeping my other relationships on the DL until I actually do have the desire to date someone exclusively works for me. When I like someone enough to date exclusively, its because I don't WANT to date anyone else. So this sort of "secrecy" has never been a problem for me as things just tend to work themselves out and I'm never "cheating" on anyone. Moreover, I lead a somewhat professional life where my reputation at work and in the community matters. For me, trying to develop these kinds of "open" relationships and publically flaunting them would probably lead to the type of reputation I don't want to garner, and it would consequently be detrimental to my social life and career. In the end, I'm just looking for "the one," and am having some fun on the road to finding her.
Sorry if that came out as a rant, but you guys seemed to be interested where my motives lie.