Dating is hard. Plain and simple. Especially when you’re first getting to know your match.
Well, thanks to a TikToker’s viral video on first date rules, perhaps your first date experience will go so much better and easier.
These rules may lean more for women, but I think these tips are beneficial for all adults.
Here are some highlights from Eli’s video:
- Pick a Thursday. It’s the perfect closeness to the weekend, so you can make plans for a second date before Monday, and then you know how you feel.
- Don’t become a pen pal before the date. You want to get to know them in person, not over texts.
- Beverages are important. If you drink, cool, order something at the bar. If not, go out for coffee. Holding a drink, and sipping on it, makes you more comfortable.
- Don’t add the person as a contact in your phone until the THIRD date.
- Tell one “comedic trauma story.”
- If someone pays for the date, thank them in person, but afterward don’t text them first . . . unless they ask you to “text when you make it home.”
- And make tentative plans with your friends for after, so that you have somewhere to go if you don’t want to stick around.
Hopefully Eli’s pointers will help you. For all 16 tips, go here.