Met the girl this weekend that I think I'm going to marry.

Super smart, gorgeous, high-flying career (not in something dull like law or banking either), lovely posh accent, genuinely funny.

The date even went quite well.

Now I just need advice on how to pretend to be someone else for the rest of my life?

Thoughts?

heh LA, why don't you drop the word "marrying" and watch her from behind in a cloud of dust, running like the Road Runner: "meep meep"

does she know you voted Brexit and that you pay money to listen to JRM? I would perhaps mention that prior to proposing, but you ought to prepare for the result described above

Christ on a bike must everyone on here always take what I say so literally? This is not my first rodeo and ofc I’m not going to fooking mention marriage irl. It is just nice, after so long accepting the fact that I am a hollow husk of a human who is dead behind the eyes, that actually I can meet a lovely girl (who yes - may very well be out of my league) have a lovely date with her and come away with some hope that I might still be able to, you know, lead a normal life.  

It went well alright, there was lots of snogging and we made plans to meet again. I don't want to f*ck it up. That is the total extent of it.

 

???  -I think you are right on that.Thanks.

My sincere advice LA is that one should play it cool in proportion to how nice a girl is and in proportion to how much one desires her.  So with this girl you need to play it mega cool.  Do show her a good time in every possible way and make sure she enjoys her time with you.  But don't fawn over her, don't compliment her too much and don't buy her presents.  Though flowers and chocolates when you next see her after standing her up (which you should do now and again) are fine.  Do not take her anywhere posh (remeber the old adage: treat a whore like a princess and a princess like a whore).  And obviously don't tell her how much you desire her.  When she threatens to dump you if you don't marry her, at that point you may say something like "I do like you quite a lot so let's give it a try".

You forgot to advise him to repeatedly neg her, forget about dates a couple of times, don’t answer the phone right away, hint about someone else he is seeing.

All sure fire ways to keep her m7.  Nothing will go wrong.

Ignore the bitter haters up there whose own personal lives are so unfulfilled they have to spew bile on here to compensate.

Heh! I am 100% certain that my personal life is a lot more fulfilled than LA's. (Not that that's saying much.)