Maldives

as in

"I’d love to take you to the Maldives."

Variations: "I’d love to take you to the Seychelles ... Barbados ... Thailand ... (anywhere with a beach and palm trees or at least a five star hotel and a low level of street crime, so not to be confused with invites to places like the Bronx or Mt. Everest which involve physical exhaustion or death, or both) ... I could live anywhere with you ... I would be happy in a shack as long as you were there ... Let’s journey to the stars."

The implications here depend on whether you have slept with the chap or not, because the proposal certainly entails sex. If you have already been intimate, you can skip the next two paragraphs. If you haven’t, bear in mind that his suggestion may only be a ploy to gain your consent.

Don’t - whatever you do - don’t accept the promise as sufficient collateral. Since he has put the ante on the table, you might as well get a holiday out of the affair before he gets confused and noncommittal.

Or before you discover that the sex isn’t great and you can’t be bothered doing a long haul journey with him.

If you have been making love satisfactorily, the situation is simpler and more positive but still neither straightforward nor necessarily good.

Men like to rhapsodise about getting away from it all and playing the role of a beachcomber but may actually not be able to sit in the sun, swim or handle a candlelit dinner without a TV with Sky Sports hanging some where over your left shoulder.

Also it’s worth checking his knowledge of geography. It’s surprising how many men think the Maldives are in the English Channel and have a vision of getting away that won’t take you much further than the pub in the next borough.

Also wise to explore their definition of keys words like "forever", "anywhere" and "anytime" which they often use in conjunction with exotic locations but don’t mean as literally as even a four year old would.