Hypothetical situation...
A guy is set up with a girl by a mutual friend.While both parties are shy, he is told that he is 'her type' and that she would be in to him.
After meeting her, he gets the courage to ask the girl out. They go out and he has a good time, and she tells him that she had a good time.
When his schedule allows, he asks her out again and before you know it, a couple of weeks have past and they have gone out several times. Even if it wasn't always a conventional date, quite a bit of time was spent together and it appeared that both parties had a good time. (At least the hypothetical texts confirmed this after each outing or time spent together...)
It was even to the point that the girl was asking when the next time something could be done together. It was not just the boy doing the asking...
To use the popular baseball metaphor, the boy even got a hit. He was trying to make his way to first base but he is not very athletic and remember he is pretty shy...
Then comes an unfortunate evening in which some liquid courage was consumed.
The devil's libation made the boy send some texts that perhaps were a bit too bold and truthful...
This freaked the girl out a bit and seemed to make things awkward.
The boy was told by the mutual friend that everything was fine and the girl still was interested in him and he was over thinking the situation. The boy had nothing to worry about.
HOWEVER...
When the unfortunate evening was discussed later, the girl informed him that a connection was never felt and nothing would or could come of the pairing.
NOW...
Hypothetically, the boy realizes, as Tennessee Williams wrote in The Glass Menagerie, there are boys who meet girls that do not get married.
BUT...
Should the boy be perturbed or frustrated that, despite apparently no connection, the girl continued to accept requests for dates (even suggesting a time for the next one), and let the batter get a hit even if he didn't make it to first base...
Was the girl just being nice and didn't want to hurt his feelings?
Was the girl using him to do things until something better came along? (Hypothetically, the boy has dealt with that before...)
Did the girl feel sorry for him and that was the only reason she accepted the dates? (Hypothetically, the boy has had that happen too...)
OR...
Should the boy accept that this is just how 'the game' is played?
Should the boy just be grateful that it only went on for a few weeks before he found out nothing would happen?
Does the boy have reason to be perturbed?
Completely hypothetical of course...
