My instinct tells me to write something like this back:

"Good answer! I was testing you, the fact that you replied saying what you did shows me that you're not a needy little girl and that maybe I don't need to be worried about your pervy ways.

Why would you be worried about the police looking at your facebook profile? What do you have to hide Missy?"

I think i'm missing a question which will make the thread continue maybe?

I like it! And you are right when you said you are missing a question which would force the thread to continue. BUT, you have two options when it comes to a conversation thats about to become stale

1) go deeper and farther
2) change subject completely

make sure not to stay on the social connection level and try to deepen it to a personal connection. Internet CAN be used to build attraction but it is EXCELLENT for building comfort.

Try to somehow, sometime soon, stacking commonalities, building comfort and a senseo f belonging, eliciting values, establishing trust, stealing anchors, and connecting on a physical and emotional level. And if you don't know what some of those are then you aren't ready to use them but do some reasearch if you are interested.

Be careful when you say. Good answer! I was testing you. Because if you weren't testing her then she probably knows and you would be better off changing the subject completely. And for the second part, about what is she hiding. Maybe use the bad stuff in the closet line, i forget it word for word. I think it goes something like this but I am probably wrong, "I bet you have all sorts of horrible things in your closet." Closet can be easily transitioned into room subject and you know what the subject of rooms can lead to...

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Jack,

You say Examples of this would be?

Ok, I ended up replying with this:

"Good answer! You passed with flying colours; do that in your exams and you'll be fine. Test passed. You're clearly not as needy as I thought and maybe I don't need to worry about your pervy ways.

Why wouldn't you want the police looking at your profile? Actually, I bet you have all sorts of horrible things in your closet no?

I made myself a cool £650 today, maybe I'll use some of the money to make some garlic bread sauce, what do you think? I want to hit the shops soon too to get some more vintage clothes, Sarah said she wanted to come with me so I think we're gonna go on a shopping date, fun times!

x"

Used the exam ref. as I know she's really focused on that so it shows I take interest and care about something she does. I didn't explicitly say I was testing her though it was implied. Talked about the money as it shows DHV and then threw in a personal connection about bread sauce and garlic as I know we both love those foods. Had previously talked about making garlic bread sauce - DHV's shows creativity. Shopping ref. shows I care about my looks and threw in the thing about a mutual friend as it will hopefully get her a little jealous.

Good/bad/improvements?

Thats good wilde. The 'good answer' response is always a clever one. If i was you i would'nt use the 'pervy ways' bit, but maybe something similar.

Oh right i was typing mine before that came up. Maybe 'i was testing you' or 'messing around' would have been better than 'test passed'. But then again what do i know, about this mailing thing. It can be quite touchy. I like to use the 'missy' thing too, i had this thing goin with one girl where she would call me 'mr' and i called her 'missy'.

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Right on. Do you think how I analysed my response is correct? Or what signals did I send out?

Okay, so didn't hear from her for a few days and sent her a text which said, "Been busy lately?" she replied how she'd been halfway up the country for a job interview and asked if i'd been busy, I replied saying that at least she had a good reason for being anti social and that I "met this amazing girl last night, but i'm not sure if I want to pursue things with her as she's a bit up herself."

She replied this morning saying, "I'm never antisocial but like I said before, i'm so busy I don't have time to text people. It was for a graduate job it was so hard but at the same time, really fun, i'll never get it though! I think being up yourself is a very unnatractive quality, but if she's amazing definitely go for it, you can always mould someone in time. x"

I think there's a few ways to read into that...what do you guys think?

If she wanted to text you, she would find time. Its just how it is. I don't mean to burst your bubble but it has to be said. Go out with the new girl sometime

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Ok, big update. So there's been a fair amount of her initiating text convos since this thread died and just last Saturday night I was working with her. Fairly standard evening, lots of her "taking the piss" of what I'm wearing but it's obviously not malicious and all in jest.

So the pub quiz was on that night and we had our own bar team, just me and her. Think I impressed her with some of my general knowledge, and a fun time was had. We both laughed a lot that night, I think we were very hyper for some reason so in high spirits.

I'm hanging out with my friend after work and I get a text that says,

"My mum says i'm acting strangely tonight, so it's all your fault! x"

I text back and we're having some convo that leads onto Sunday and Monday. Last night I texted her saying,

"I love how you don't talk to me all day just to get me wanting. It's a cliche girl tactic but good try. Gotta be original to survive! x"

This morning, this flies into my inbox: "It may be a cliche tactic but it's clearly working x"

Oh my fucking god. If that 'aint a huge IOI then what is? Or am I horribly wrong? What the fuck do I text back to that?

haha gj man, anything you want !

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