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I'm no Casanova by any means but here's what I'd say happened and what you should do. However much it may have seemed like things are going well, it can be hard to separate friendliness and flirtatiousness, and you were on night 1 of a 7 day cruise - I think you went for it too early is all - early enough to the point where you probably didn't have enough to go off of to determine if she was interested or not, and she may have not had enough interaction with you to BE interested. Not every chick will get cockhungry for a guy on night 1 of knowing them.

That said, all you can do is say "oh well" and move on. From the point of "and suggested that if i wanted to continue to see the show i should stay" you should have assumed that she was telling you to back off at least for the night and not have outright asked what you did...given there's plenty of time left you MAY have had a chance but when you force her to come outright with the rejection (her nod answer to your question), you can't pull a Costanza and pretend the next day like everything's fine and nothing happened, and no one takes cruises for drama so it's not like you can expect to talk things out with her and have a chance.

And to quote a good movie line from Training Day, "the shit's chess, it ain't checkers"...looking for love at least. A one-time hop in the sack might be checkers to some guys. I think you may have had a chance with her with more time spent but went in for the early attack and lost your queen - game over.

I half agree with you. IF he had not forced her to confirm the rejection, even with self-conscious issues he could try that, but I don't think even well-confident guys could pull it off after forcing her to confirm the rejection...he buried himself with that.

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