Dating, Relationships and all that awkward stuff

Dating, Relationships and All That Awkward Stuff I started to 'date' about three years ago when I was 15. Well that was when I had my first girlfriend. The whole concept of dating confuses me because I’ve never really done it – dating that is. In the case of my first girlfriend, who in the case of anonymity we shall name L, we just good friends first and then became closer and closer over the period of a few weeks by just spending lots of time together. L and I saw each other in school and we went round to each others houses. We never really went out on a 'date' before we became a couple. And when we did go to places as a couple it was never considered a date; it was a couple going out doing coupley things. I always considered dating the thing you do with someone on the road to a relationship but I may be wrong. I suppose me and L going to each others houses lots could be considered the equivalent of dating. With my latest partner we me met at a bar on an alcohol fuelled night out that was originally intended, I’m ashamed to say, to be a one night stand. But then the morning after the night before and the following weeks after the night before we got to know each other, we texted a lot and saw each other around and grew closer through those means of communication. We had one more night much like the first we met and then the morning after we were somehow very close and in a relationship, a couple. Aidan Goodwin