5. “Just this once, please, it has to be you.” Sounding clingy and needy.
“It’s only a date, but she made it sound like a life-and-death situation. I can picture her being emotionally unstable, so I got the heck out of there,” a young man in his late teens shares, feeling that he narrowly escaped a bad relationship. As much as you want to convey your feelings, pack too much into one invitation and you’ll start to sound clingy and needy. Especially on your first invite, you’ll want to utilize phrases that create a more casual tone.