I agree with this. Why would he only say a month? I read an article last night that said her friends wanted to make sure the media got out to the public they dated 6-8 weeks. I don't believe this as they didn't want people to get the wrong ideas about bringing him to her house after the first date. This was said when she was just missing.
Not many people agree with me here but I think this was a first face to face date.
There was a poster in the very beginning who stated she was a friend of a friend of Ingrids friend and that is was a first date.
I totally agree with you - I have been hampered casue I dont do FN Twitter Insta so i do not know what the norm nodays is. On the JOey thread someone claimed that nowdays it just "done" that you just walk away from friends you came with without saying a word. So, I dont know the terminogy - but , I am only talking about me, I could not "think" I was "dating" someone , if it solely meant a keyboard, but I wonder if the words are different now.
ATTN: Will all those in 40 age range (!) please enlighten us older people - would you use the word dating. It has also struck me as when "with " the cops, he used the word dating. She was stunning, so I wonder if it was like this man look what I was able to get -you know what I am saying --male bravado sh@t.
Funny, as gay man I have gotten to sit at the wives table and the husbands and let me tell you a world of difference. All but me, my family is affluent.
Ladies: Moaning and groaning about how lazy he is. He could help with kids more. I asked him today if little Johnny had eaten and he was clueless. On and on...
Husbands table: Are you in the doghouse again? What is she bit$ching at you about now. Its just easier to do what they say. I am tired when I come , look at all the things I give her. And honestly after a certain number years of marriage in some intaces, they just do whatever she says -they dont wanna listen to "it". They say that to each other - just do whatever she tells you - its easier then they all chuckle.
Digress - amazing read You Just Dont Understand - linguist who study the differnece between male and females communication
This is the one I used with pts . They have been married a while. Decided that each of them get one night a week either with the ladies, and one for the guys to hang.
Males task oriented - they go bowling. He comes home, she asks what did you all TALK about. He says "nothing"
Ladies go to dinner and TALK . She comes home and ask he asks what did you DO. She says nothing.
Both partners feel shut out.
But the truth is if the male asked her when she came home what did you TALK about she would go on and on Susy divorecing Jane having an affair whatever.
Conversly if the wife asked when he came home what did you DO , he would go into JOe bowled this and Tom got this score
BOth answers are the truth -- dinner is not doing anything, and the men , gernerally are not talking about anything - they are "doing" bowling a task!!
The whole book was amazing .
Do not ask me how I got here in this post !