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Alexedra -> How long is too long after first meeting? (4/14/2007 9:40:11 PM)
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This question applies to any situation where a woman is meeting a man (I specify opposite genders because the question involves communication differences between men and women, but this could also apply to two people of the same gender) in person for the first time - BDSM, vanilla, friendship, gym buddies. Suppose the woman meets the man in a reasonably public place and the two seem to get along fairly well. Perhaps it's not crystal clear that this man and woman are immediately going to mate for life - but well enough to where it seems a second meeting is warranted. There is no sex or kissing.
That night, upon getting home, the woman sends an e-mail or text message saying thank-you, she had a good time but hears nothing back from the man for a period of time . . . but then, later, she gets an email from him.
How long is too long to receive this response? How much time would you allow to go by before you would totally ignore the response from the man?
I was starting to get frustrated when I received several of these kinds of responses - but then my male friend told me that the time period was perfectly normal and that I was, in general, much too impatient (and that my demand for a more immediate response from him had been a source of tension between us in the past).
So I was just wondering what women (and men) think is a "normal" period of time to lapse before responding to a communication would be, when specific plans are NOT being made, and if there is a difference in opinion between men and women on this subject.
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