I had a great first date last night and I was just thinking about how the time right after a first date is always really weird. What I mean by this is there's always that short period where if you're interested in going out again you're always unsure if the other person feels the same. I feel like regardless of the first date vibes, it's a bit hard to determine if the person is interested in a second date or not.
I remember I ran into a friend of the family once when I was coming home from a first date about a year or so ago and he asked me are you going out again? This is the typical question that my family always asks me, are you guys going out again? Sometimes I'm not interested in a second date but if I am, my answer is almost always: I'd like to but we'll see. I feel like regardless of the vibes, it's very hard to tell if the other person is interested in going out again. I told this to that family friend I ran into, and he said why not just outright ask at the end of the date if they'd like to go out again? In theory that's a decent idea but I feel like no one ever gives a committal answer in person.
Like last night, I hugged the girl goodbye and said to her "I had a great time and would definitely love to do this again". She responded saying "Yeh, I'll text you". To me that gives me the vibe that you didn't have as much fun as I did and I'm now unsure whether or not you actually want to go out again. I feel like this after a lot of my first dates. With that being said, most of my first dates that I wanted to go on a second with do end up happening outside of two or three instances where the second date never happened for a variety of reasons. But I'm just wondering am I the only one with this observation? Or is this something that other people feel as well after a first date?