Agreed. A safe bet is to always let the lady pick; this serves two purposes. First off it demonstrates that you are taking an interest in what she wants to do or is interested in. Secondly it also gives you some insight; if you say please pick a movie and she says "Pacific Rim" it gives you a different insight than if she said "Grown Ups 2."

Yeah you might get stuck watching something you hate, but you grin and bear it and MAN UP because let me tell you, taking a lady to a movie she doesn't like on an early date has worse ramifications. If she had a good time with you at the first movie, she'll more than likely let you pick the next one (which can be a thorny road but you knew that, right?)

If she suggests Grown Ups 2, you turn around and walk off right there and then. You just dodged a bullet my friend.

Lock has a point :lol

Its hard enough with Toku and Transformers, MLP might kill my chances. :lol Even though I have seen EG more than twice. :p

Yall have no idea how much I wish it was that kind of date. :lol

But when she wont tell me anything its kinda hard! But Ill just go with wait till saturday and see what she wants to see.

:lolol I dont have to worry about that one. Shes not one for that kind of hunor, I know that much.

Just don't watch Audition as a date movie, she'll never forgive you for it :lol

The hell is that? :lol Do I wanna know?

Show her Dead Girl and then wink at her through the movie suggestively.

It's a nice little Japanese movie about a man who in his old lonely age, holds a fake audition to find the woman of his dreams. He does just that, and they start dating and become close and in love....

....and then she drugs/paralyzes him, cuts his foot off, and sticks needles in his chest and eyes after killing his dog. His son comes home and knocks the girl down the stairs, breaking her neck.

It's really, really, really good movie. Just not a good choice for date night.

Sounds good, like a dumb idea Id have.... -reads spoiler tag- O_O Nope. Not gonna be seein that movie. :lol

To be fair, horror movies are so central to my life, if I met a chick who couldn't stand them then we'd never work out.

If I met a girl who didnt like Toku... Okay I can deal with that. Music on the other hand. If she doesnt know who the hell Alan Jackson or George Strait is an know who Taylor Swift is.... Yea dealbreaker. :lol

I'd tolerate probably any girl's movie and musical interests...until they break out dubstep and Skrillex. Then the bitch is on her own.

People sometimes say that the only way a girl would actually like me is if they were into Pokemon as much as me.

:lol I cant stand dubstep, hell my best friend will only play rap now because "it has a good beat" an he is full of himself thinkin his speakers are badass. Okay In rantin here on another subject, back to my point. I honestlu can put up with anythin, but if Im in charge of music- we are gettin country. New, old, and everything inbetween.

As cool as it would be to have a girl with the same intrests as me, I feel itd ve easier to have differences. As they say "opposites attract" :lol

That is the thing, when you're older. In education environments, somehow you seem to always end up drifting into the group closest to your interests but at work the environment is much smaller and because of that, things feel much thinner spread and in turn more varied meaning you'll meet people you'll get on with but you might never meet someone as compatible as your best friend from your school days. Makes me wish I held onto some of my education friends, but I've lived in three different cities in the last four years, so yeah.

Here's the trailer for your viewing pleasure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC3jCY4h0H0

Eh. I've got something like 400 horror movies on DVD and VHS, I ran a horror film review website for about a decade, and I host a horror movie podcast, and my wife can't tolerate much of anything in the vein of horror. You never can tell!

Whoever I date probably won't share my love of Japanese film...or Japan as a whole :lol

You never know, you might find one who loves all the seksi bois on the modern Kamen Rider shows... ;)

So Fandago finally updated for my local theater, best two choices for Saturday are either Percy Jackson 2 or Smurfs 2. Damn I know which one I wanna see. :lol

I think Ill go with whatever I think at the moment she wants, or if shes seen one already...

The answer to all of this is to just not care. Don't care about the consequences, don't care how you do, and don't care what she thinks about you. Do what you want, what you think is best... and own up to it. If she doesn't like you, move on.

Simple

In concept, but the execution is a bit difficult to accomplish. The best thing to do is to be yourself (original, I know). A relationship is built upon trust and care. To take out one aspect is not the best idea. Yes, your partner should be able to accept you for you, but that doesn't mean you should be a jerk. Owning up to things, though, is an incredibly intelligent decision to make.

Though it's difficult to explain in words, you and I both know that I didn't mean to be a jerk about it. A girl not liking you is not the end of the world... it really isn't.

I know what you're saying. The way you worded it was a bit easy to misinterpret, though.

(We are both saying that one should be oneself and find someone who can accept one for oneself, right?)

Sooooo, what do we suggest to those who are desiring companionship?

Define "companionship." If you're talking about friendship, that's something that just happens (for me, anyway). What I have noticed, however, is that people approach friends-to-be with a goal. For instance, the person who is now my best friend approached me about a school project. When I decided to form friendships with the people who I now consider part of my Neo-Breakfast Club, I collapsed on the ground next to them after I felt I had done sufficiently on a P.E. exercise we were doing that day and asked, "How did I do?" Friendship is a lot harder to achieve than romantic relationships, in my opinion.

If you're talking about another kind of companionship, you'll have to elaborate.

Romantic companionship. I guess to put it somewhat simply, I would love to have a girlfriend and eventual wife. But, I'd be just as fine having somebody (preferably a girl) follow me through thick and thin. I guess a comparison could be I want a V and Eevee relationship, if you get what I'm saying.

So basically someone who may not be the love of your life, but has got your back, even in your darkest hour?

Pretty much. They could only love me like 5% and I'd be good. I'm not looking for some Koji Suzuki Paradise soul mate shit per say. I just want a healthy relationship with somebody I can count on.

Open up to someone. Someone that you trust, that you consider a friend. It might take a long time, it might happen instantaneously.

What I learnt, as an adult, is that trust becomes rarer and rarer. Education presents controlled environments, all the way to Uni, that forces people together to become friends both through deliberate friend making exorcises but also in the fact that you're just around each other all the time, by the time it gets to Uni you can literally end up living with them as well.

When you start work, it's really different. You may have people you get on with at work, while you're there, but whereas before all people were doing was going home to their Mum and their dinner by this age, it's more than likely that they are going to their own house to their own lives they are living. As such, even friendship that goes anywhere beyond the workplace is very very difficult to achieve, they have their own friends and their own lives already, let alone anything romantic, let alone even close trust built friendships.

What the heck is Uni?

University.

Never heard it called Uni before lol

Everyone calls it Uni here.

If your partner is receiving hormone therapy, treat them as you would someone in a bad mood on the verge of snapping, because they are.
Long distance relationship means I'm not in a fight, but it makes the silent treatment a hell of a lot more effective...

I dunno how people do long distance, man. I know it sounds noble to say otherwise, but I think every relationship needs a healthy sex life to succeed.

We figure a way out. This is actually the first relationship I have that I consider to be a real one.
As for a sex life, while it would be nice, I don't think it's necessary.

I think a healthy sex life is the most necessary thing out of the lot. It's all well and good to be good friends, but good friends are exactly that. Sex is really the only thing that separates it out.

I actually don't think so. There's more to attraction and bonding than sex.