Hi Perna,
Good date tonight for you both!
Well, maybe my definition of dating is a bit different from yours, as I said I'm not used to what in other places is called dating.
I was using the word "dating" as in going out to a restaurant or movies with a guy we barely know so we can know him better, not as in "I'm going out with this guy I've a thing or my husband or my boyfriend". I'm sorry... my translations today aren't great but I think I'll be able to explain.
For instant, the guy I "went out" with before my ex and my pseudo-ex. We got to know each other while in the company of others. We never went out if not between friends. Like hanging out... Only when I started to see in him something worth dating did we go to the movies..
I don't see hanging out between friends as dating. Dating in my context was going out with someone together and alone.

Have a nice date, Perna!! ***