Why did being with a stranger so often mean we couldn’t immediately talk about meaningful things?
.. I would have been very uncomfortable if a man had pushed me in this way into “deep” talk (and I would have felt pushed indeed) in the early stages of getting-to-know-you. It seems to me this is a way of forcing intimacy before I have any idea if I want that level of closeness with someone. Some women may love it but I shuddered when I read about it…