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IN THIS EDITION: Here are 8 ways we as men tend to screw up first dates with women.
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8 WAYS FIRST DATES GET SCREWED UP
I've been thinking lately about why so many first meetings with women go awry.
Based on some of the emails I get you would think good first dates are as rare as an '86 Yugo in running condition.
Are we that deficient in making a solid first impression?
Or is it that we're unreasonable in our expectations?
Here's exactly as bad as it gets. I can tell you with a straight face that I think most of us are BOTH. "C: All Of The Above".
Ironically enough, these days people want immediate gratification even as the concept of "customer service" is all but instinct.
So in a world of short attention spans and preconceived expectations of disappointment we make dates with women. Assuming everyone involved has enough integrity to show up rather than flaking out, we expect to be "entertained" even as we feel perfectly free to leave our "A game" hanging in the locker.
In such situations "going big or going home" takes on new meaning.
Here are eight ways we fail to put forth our best effort on first dates:
1) Failure To Communicate...AT ALL
Maybe you're nervous. Perhaps you're playing it conservative so as not to "blow it". But if it takes four dentists, two rocket scientists and a small boy to extract words from your mouth when you are sitting in front of someone you just met don't come whining to me when the date doesn't progress the way you want it to.
2; Interview Questions
This is obvious and you've heard it a million times before, haven't you? Yeah well, the problem is that we still keep doing it anyway.
So instead of repeating the problem for the seventy-leventh time, here's a practical solution: Take careful note of anything interesting that you happen to see or read during the day of the date. When you meet the person, casually begin conversation using the topics you've already invested time in preparing to talk about.
Tease a bit. Use the "banter" skills you've learned. When you start hearing "I've known you for ten minutes but it's like we've know each other for years", then you know you are on the right track.
3) "I Don't Feel Like Being Here."
I've actually heard horror stories where someone's date actually SAID this at the front end of the date.
Lookit. That's practically tantamount to soft-core dating terrorism.
"Hello, A. I'm B. I really don't want to be here. No really--I have better things to do." You know, I'm beginning to think that flaking out on someone at the last minute--or even flat-out standing them up--isn't as bad as it gets.
4) Distractions
Can you put down the cell phone for however long the date is going to last? Can you handle it? Can you trust that the house isn't on fire? Better yet, can you hold a conversation without spacing out?
5) Mentally Detached
I'm going to dogpile "tired", "stressed", and "preoccupied" onto this category.
Dates that happen over lunch or at the end of a work day are particularly prone to "compression sickness". If you aren't completely present, well...you aren't all there.
At least that's what the other person is going to be forced into assuming. This can even go so far as to creep someone out, which we all know is the Thing That Must Never Happen.
6) Rushed
Yeah, you may go so far as actually wanting to be on the date. You may even have had a good night's sleep and a caffeine fix. But if you are trying to shoehorn a planned 2-hour experience into 25 minutes because "something came up" then you're stacking the deck against anything good coming from the date. At least the ordeal is an abbreviated one, right?
7) Apathetic Towards Appearance
Emily commented about this to me recently. She noticed, and I agree, that people in general are much more cavalier about how they dress and clean up than they used to be.
Maybe the "business casual" revolution has DE-volved into a "post-casual" debacle.
Sure you don't want to telegraph some needy fixation on "impressing" someone. But that's not at all related in concept to making no effort at all to even look good.
8) Sex Focused
Objectifying your date early and often invariably leads to indifferent response.
And no, this isn't necessarily a purely male phenomenon anymore (as if it really ever was).
Stop focusing on sexuality and start igniting masculinity or femininity instead. You will discover life-changing secrets to getting second dates.
If this doesn't make sense, send me an email.
Remember, this once again--as is usually the case around here--comes down to deserving what you want.
Are you expecting to meet exciting people who you are actually attracted to?
Stop arriving for dates expecting to be "entertained" and start putting some focus on being excellent yourself.
Be Good,
Scot McKay
X & Y Communications
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