The other Wii game that's coming out before Xmas that I'm looking forward to is Raving Rabbids 2.

So is there anyone else who rarely experiences chemistry on a first date?

Almost all of my relationships (including my current one, which seems to have some staying power) started out as friendship.

I realize that's not the same thing as a first date, but what I mean is -- there was no romantic/physical chemistry there at first, which is why we were friends and not immediate passionate sexy sexy lovers.

Raving Rabbids 2.

I first read that as "Raving Rabbis 2."

GF: Interests are music (she plays bass and loves indie rock and hip hop), comics, classic films, Sherlock Holmes, traveling, Wii, Legos, Nintendo DS.

I'm mildly obsessed and I love my New Annotated Sherlock Holmes [link] You can find this at a wide variety of prices, if you look around.

Dad: Interests are Georgia Bulldogs,

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So is there anyone else who rarely experiences chemistry on a first date?

Very rarely, and when it happened I deeply distrusted it, with good reason. The one person with whom I've ever had immediate, overwhelming, knee-knocking chemistry turned out to be epically bad for me (in the short run, anyway; almost a decade out, I'm at peace with it and with him, but when it was all fresh and new it wrecked me).

Hec is the result of an unspoken crush turned comfortable friend turned sparkage turned agreeable friendly sex turned love. It's not the path I would have predicted for myself back in the days of Chemistry Boy, but it's worked out beautifully.

I'm having a niece! So excited!

I'm with JZ wrt the sparks. Joe and I had sparks but our relationship was complicated in the beginning and he's the only spark guy that didn't totally mess me up. I often compare the spark boys to drugs.

I felt crazy chemistry with ND from the first time I met him, but I shoved it away into a corner of my mind until much later when a relationship was actually possible.

That spark was definitely there from the start, but he's one of the only people I've ended up with that way. Most of the boys and girls that made me go all weak-kneed ended up being extremely bad for me.

It makes me wonder - I see a lot of personals ads by women that say, "chemistry is important" or "essential" or something. I tend to avoid responding to those ads based on previous experience.

Then there was the woman I went on a date with (we'd corresponded online and talked on the phone a few times so we knew each other fairly well)... she said she wanted to start out as friends. Then after the one date she had lost interest because there had been "no chemistry." So I was confused for a bit - I had assumed those two possibilities would be mutually exclusive, or nearly so.

DH and I had chemistry from the outset, but there was as much friendship chemistry as the physical kind. We could talk for hours and hours and write each other 10-page letters several times per week (we were living in different towns in England that year and didn't have regular internet access, so these were actual handwritten letters--I have them all stored safely away in a box).

Ha! Ginger, she has that Sherlock Holmes set (are there two of them? because I think she has two...). She is hard to buy for because she researches and buys everything. Argh!

That UGA DVD is a great find! Totally up my Dad's alley.