Hi,

I'm 39 years of age, a few years ago (31 onwards) after reading The Game and getting into it, I fell into a 6 year relationship. That's now ended, and I find I have no inner game. Approaching girls is no problem (for the most part, I get AA still, but I can work on that).
I approached a girl (HB8.5) I know through my limited social circle and she gave a few IOIs (I've lost a lot of weight over the last 6 months, her first words to me were "Wow - you're looking good!"). She mentioned that she could lose a few pounds (there'd be nothing left of her if she did!), so I suggested that we go and play squash together.
She agreed. We're playing this Wednesday (deliberately made it a week day as per instructions elsewhere).
I have no idea how to escalate this...please help!

Also, I tried the "We're going on a road trip" post on a POF member (HB7), and she's come back with a sh*t test. She asked if everything in my profile was true, and I replied by saying, "I can't give away all my secrets...what sort of boy do you think I am? " She's replied with "Selfish, shallow...and a dickhead?"

I could have done without the knock at the moment - I'm feeling pretty rare after a 6 year break-up.

Not entirely sure how to respond.

The first girl is 24, the second 19 (which is a little too young to be fair, we'd have no common ground at all!)

Also, a girl (HB8 aged 28) I know phoned out of the blue (after about 2 years) to see if I could fix her laptop - she came round, we joked, were a bit touchy-feely and then she came around on the following Saturday with her daughter for a few hours...simply for the sake of it I think. The laptop wasn't mentioned. We weren't quite as jelling as we were, which I attributed to her daughter being there, she came around again in the week and we simply talked.

I think I have a sticking point about escalating.

EDIT: I think I have posted this in the wrong forum, could a mod please move it to a more correct place?

Hey man.

For the day2 escalation bit, I have a little trick from Sinn that I tweaked and works approximately 100% of the time. If you're in the comfort zone with her, say "I'll going to start hitting on you in a minute but..."(the continue with you conversation.) or "Wow I can we need to stop flirting...". This would get your leg through the "seduction phase" door. then look for a good time to say "when we kiss..." and (AFTER THE FIRST MAKEOUT) say "when we have sex..." (make is funny too like "when we have sex I'm gonna have to turn up the music and close the windows because I can tell you're a screamer). The usually just laugh