For after a day-2 or date (not a club pick-up), does anyone have tips for the transition from getting her home to sealing the deal? I feel like this area is seldom discussed, but there must be some essential steps to ensure closing. For example, anyone have a way to make her particularly comfortable in your place? Escalate naturally?

It seems that if she's comfortable going back to your place, she's ready to get intimate (bow-chicka-wow-wow), but maybe not?

Just because a woman comes to your place doesn't mean she'z ready to make a baby. What you must do is get her comfortable enough with you and your touch that she will not resist your advances.

Make the next date near your house. Tell her to meet at your place. When she arrives, let her in, (optional - be shirtless) saying that you'll be ready in a minute. She spends five minutes at your house drinking a glass of water or whatever while you get ready and talk to her, then you leave. This is so she will be comfortable in your house, as she was there once already.
When the date is over, you can ask if she wants to come back to your place, (never with these words) either to show her something cool, watch a movie, or the classic "fancy a cup o' coffee?" thing. Also, add that she has to go after that, because you have to wake up early or whatever (fake time constraint to make her comfortable). Then when she is up there, you can start escalating once you are together, and after that, it's just a battle of LMRs if you encounter any. Good luck.

I dunno. I live in an apartment, and having some excuse to have her come up before we leave is kinda annoying and out of the way. I think there must be a set step-by-step method to get from the front door to the bedroom and past any LMR. This would be, of course, after some serious comfort-building and attraction. I'm just looking for a few things to say/do when they get back so they don't feel like it's just to bang (to avoid ASD), and so they feel like it was a natural extension of the previous few hours.

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