When it has been a week since your first date and he hasn’t asked you out on a second, he isn’t interested.

There is a chance that he has lost the interest he once had or that it has greatly diminished.

His lack of real action should be your guide in terms of what to expect from this guy henceforth.

A guy who had as much fun as you did on the first date would want to date you soon after.

He would rarely wait this long.

This being said, there are extenuating circumstances.

An unexpected emergency came up or he fell ill.

These extenuating circumstances are relatively rare.

Not communicating with you on a regular basis since the first date is a red flag.

It is so important for you to be able to read the signs.

You feel like you are so happy with this guy and you had such a great connection with him on that first date.

That happiness alone leads you to hope for something that honestly wasn’t there.

Even though you had a great first date with him and he seemed to have a good time, he didn’t believe there was any bona fide chemistry there.

A date is a two-way street after all.

Thereby, you need to take note of what has been happening since that first date.

As I mentioned earlier, if he has barely communicated with you since the first date and he hasn’t asked you out on a second date yet, he has most likely lost interest in you.

If he has communicated but the conversations have been very short and lacked any real substance, he is no longer interested in you.

On the flip side, in a scenario where he has continued to communicate with you consistently during the week and still hasn’t asked you out, he is worried about something.

He is getting the sense that you are either too eager for a second date or you are too busy in life.

When he is sensing that you are too eager, he worries that your expectations are too high and he wouldn’t have the capacity to meet those expectations.

As a result, he hesitates to ask you out.

He wants to wait it out a little in order to see whether you bring your expectations back down to earth.

On the other hand, he feels like a second date is difficult to do on account of how frequently you sound like you are too busy, or you have a lot going on.

He is worried that were he to ask you out on a second date, he is intruding on your precious time.

So he holds off on asking you out on a second date in the hopes that he eventually catches you when you seem to have the time for him.

Bearing this in mind, you have to be somewhere in the middle for him to get comfortable enough to ask you out on a second date.

You shouldn’t appear to be too eager, but you shouldn’t appear to be too busy either.

Find a middle ground.

This gives the impression that you are open to a date without appearing as though all you ever think about is another date with this person.