The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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I agree that saying
Would have been better but I find it hard to imagine that (especially with someone she knows irl) this is ever enough to make any difference.
Yeah, fair enough, probably "much better" was overselling it, and it's not the kind of thing that would have allowed some threshold to be crossed. Like you allude to, that it's IRL acquaintance is pretty significant.
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There's a threshold of "begging for a date" beyond which the text has minimal chances of actually leading to a date, and I agree that that rewording is still past that threshold. Reword it some more though and I think the chance of success does increase markedly.
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