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🗓️ 9 January 2026
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How many dates should you wait before going over to someone's house?
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| 0:00.0 | We got an email in that simply reads, too early to go to his place. |
| 0:11.0 | So they said, when it comes to the early stages of dating, i.e. first month or two, |
| 0:17.0 | what would you say is the right balance between having exterior dates versus dates where you go to one another's place? |
| 0:25.1 | Part of me wonders whether getting to the in-home dates too quickly or doing those too frequently in the beginning |
| 0:31.3 | gets you to the cuddly stage prematurely, which may scare the guy off. |
| 0:36.4 | Hope to hear your thoughts on this. |
| 0:37.7 | Sincerely, one of your original followers. |
| 0:40.5 | I think there's not just a danger of you getting to the Cuppley stage too quickly and |
| 0:46.8 | scaring him off. |
| 0:47.8 | There's obviously the danger of getting to the casual categorisation where it's just kind of all very easy. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, well, those are two different things, right? Those are two different kinds of risk. |
| 1:03.3 | Right. Yeah. Cuppley is like, scaring him off by getting to the Cuppley stage too quickly, |
| 1:08.4 | might be inviting him to dinner with your parents. |
| 1:12.0 | Right. |
| 1:17.3 | But inviting him over or going over to his house doesn't necessarily get you to cut to the cuply stage that's going to scare him off. |
| 1:19.9 | Right. |
| 1:20.4 | It just might get you to the, you know, friends with benefits stage or, you know, just |
| 1:26.9 | hanging out at each other's homes and it all being |
| 1:29.4 | very, very easy and frictionless or friction full. There's what you want to do and there's what's |
| 1:40.3 | prudent to do. You might want to jump someone that you just met five minutes ago. It doesn't |
| 1:47.7 | mean it's prudent to do that. It might not even mean that's safe to do that, right? So I'm just |
| 1:53.4 | going to extremes here to illustrate this point. I would say this to it. People make this |
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