If you’re a woman, how do you navigate the Online communication waters? WHAT IF YOU GIVE YOUR NUMBER TO A GUY ONLINE AND HE DOESN’T CALL … Allow me to give you some helpful advice about how to deal with these issues … Forget about what your mother said that you’re not a lady if you call first. One of my favorite emails I told a woman client of mine to write to a man who had given her his number online was this: “Sure. Not only that, but the next time he gets a phone number from a woman and considers making her wait three or four days for him to call, he’ll remember what it’s like sitting by the phone and waiting for that phone call.

While there are no hard and fast “rules,” these guidelines will help make your online dating experiences a lot less stressful… So while I believe there are no “hard and fast” rules, I do have a rule of thumb about what to do about calling when you meet someone online.

Dating with Dignity has compiled a few tips for you to get a guy to move a digital relationship offline. Keep phone calls short and sweet, and let him ask you out.

Taking the steps from being strangers to dating can be filled with booby traps.

I’m not saying that if he doesn’t get in touch, you should forget about him.

Something may have come up out of the ordinary that prevented him from coming through.

“I’ve been flirting with this one guy on and another guy on Yahoo! DO YOU EVER FEEL A LITTLE LOST WHEN YOU’RE DATING ONLINE ABOUT WHO SHOULD CALL FIRST? 🙂 Actually, I was kind of tired of having men call me first, ’cause then you just have to wait. I can make you wait 🙂 Talk to you real soon.” This email will make a guy think … He’ll also realize that giving up all that power and waiting for that phone to ring is really not a lot of fun.

Are dating rules different when you’re online dating?