Dating advice, I need some

[SilentSerenata]

As cliche as this sounds, my advice is that you should just be you and do what you want do. Overtime, she will learn more about you and it's a turn off when some people who had initially seemed really great turn out to be the complete opposite.

I really stress the fact that you shouldn't approach a potential partner, or even a friend, with any sort of intentional pretense (unless its for a good reason) otherwise you might just find yourself to be a compulsive liar. Once you've created a character that pleases you partner but isn't really the real you, the more fake stories you'll have to tell her in order to keep your facade.

I'm sorry if I sound like a know it all but I'm just saying from my personal experience. I used to care about public images and wanted to be one of the "cool" and "popular" kids, so I would often tell my friends how I had connections to these other "cool" and "popular" people, who in all reality didn't exist. Ofc I wasn't so stupid as to say I knew some kind of hotshot celebrity but looking back, it feels just as stupid. Like really stupid.

But I reckon sooner or later your true character is going to show anyway once you've gotten over the awkward phase of getting to first know one another. And hey, that girl might just be as nervous as you.

Perhaps a great way to start a conversation with her is to admit how your feeling like "I'm kinda nervous so sorry if I do anything silly" and then ask she's feeling before moving onto any other kind of topics involving your common interests. IMO, as a female myself, honest men are a thumbs up. Also try not to throw any compliments that you don't mean - I think instictively women know when men say half hearted things.