How to Have the Perfect First Date

The perfect first date is a subjective experience and individual to each couple. One couple's idea of a perfect first date might just be another couple's idea of an absolutely disastrous first date. I think the first date should be seen as an opportunity to meet someone new. Hopefully, there will be a mutual attraction but if not then maybe you might make a new friend. It's important not to put too much pressure on yourself and your date. Make an effort to look well and be cheerful. Try to relax, be yourself and be interested in the other person. Try to put your date at ease. Enjoy the date itself, the food, the surroundings, the atmosphere. Life is all about experiences, and your first date is another experience to be enjoyed.

I signed up to an internet dating website last year, and had several first dates. Some were interesting, others not so good, but I just put it all down to life experience. At least I had the courage to meet new people and be myself, and I was actively doing something constructive about my love life. It is often the way, as it is with most things in life, that the perfect first date will take you by surprise and will be completely unplanned and unexpected.

My perfect first date started out a little disastrously. I had been chatting for a while to lovely man on the dating website and we decided to meet. Our initial first date arrangement had to be cancelled because he had been involved in car crash the day before we were due to meet! We rearranged and agreed to meet half way as we lived quite some distance apart. So, I arrived at the restaurant and approached a man who I believed to be my date. He was the same height, same build and even looked quite like the photo my date had emailed me. This man looked at me like I was crazy and just walked away from me with a shocked look on his face. Needless to say, I was quite hurt at his reaction, as I thought this was my date and he was interested in me.

I decided to have a coffee before making my way home, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was my date! He did look quite like the other man who I had approached earlier. Anyway, to make a long story short, my date and I had the most amazing first date. We talked into the early hours of the morning. We had so much in common and really liked each other, and we have been together for the past six months.

My advice is to give your first date a chance. Enjoy it and who knows it might just turn out to be the most perfect unexpected first date you'll ever have.