I hate being a stepping stone

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You can either sit around, counting your losses and complaining about it or you can get out there, improve yourself, your situation and appearance and show her what she missed out on.

It means quoted for truth

You can't improve without change or compromise, sometimes you have to make compromises to grow.

I made a thread a while ago that may help you.
Good places for Asperger's men to meet women - http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt193178.html

Running is usually a brief experience and most people want to get on with their run, it would only involve small talk, there are also a few books on small talk and conversation which might benefit you.

Confident Conversation by Doctor Lillian Glass, It's quite a dated book but if you can get a copy of it, I'm sure it will be of more help than a few pick up artist articles.

You can read about her credentials here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Glass

As the quote goes "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got, and you'll always feel what you've always felt." so learn from this experience, move on and be persistent.

"I want to be happy for her/him" is something people say when they want to look a certain way, when the truth is the whole idea is destructive to a human psyche. Feeling like its expected of you to be happy for someone else, when their happiness is either a correlation or the causality of your unhappiness is in my book a sign of you either being on drugs or mentally ill.

It's the same as "Let's stay friends" or "I still want us to be friends" its a stupid thing women and sometimes men do in order to hedge their love life at the expense of someone else.

You are making someone else happy at the cost of yourself, its a fundamental "nice guy" problem that does not work, because it makes you more bitter, more cynical, more hateful and in the end that makes you less attractive to people who are in fact attracted to you.

Another issue, is that its often played as if you say "well, I don't want you as a friend" or "No I'm not happy for you" you're the bad guy and you are being an immoral a**hole because self-sacrifice is placed on a pedestal, when the truth is that most of what appears to be self-sacrifice is in fact reciprocal altruism.

The funniest bit, is that its always the person who does the rejecting that ends up expecting other people to make the sacrifice. Which again shows that it's the person who prioritizes their own happiness that makes demands, not the person who sacrifices theirs.

Ask yourself, what is the cost-benefit calculation of this person in my life? Are they a net positive or net negative? If they are a net negative, why keep them in your life? Do some math and be honest about your intention. If you remain someone's friend, or act happy on their behalf, how much is that costing you?

OP you don't sound like a stepping stone.

Agreeing with TM and Kurgan on this. If you are on a dating site, don't aim for friendship as your plan B. Stick to finding a date and whatever it is you want after the date.

It happens. I've been the guy who helped two ex's get back together. Now that is a b***h.

One thought: Don't do lunch dates as a first date. You can do it when your in a relationship; but lunch date isn't leading with your best hand, especially if you work and have only a limited time for lunch.