

so I was cautious and told him on our next date that I prefer to move more slowly
He was strangely quiet and didn’t say much once I communicated that. Then he pulled back and seemed less interested when I asked if he was free to meet again
Clearly he was very disappointed. And the only possible reason is your announcenent before.
Seems you didn’t recognize that.
I would have been helpful (probably for both of you) to ask him right then and there about his reaction, and his wishes and feelings, because that was your only opportunity to really bring it out into the open and maybe talk about it. Later he had shut down.


Ach so, na dann war es ja ganz gut, nicht die Witzfigur persönlich zu schicken, weil man Putin diesmal gar nicht zum Lachen bringen wollte.