There’s something that I — as a partnered person, probably annoyingly — like to recommend to friends looking for good first date ideas. And that is this: Choose an activity you’ve been wanting to do ...

First dates are The Worst. It’s likely you’re both nervous, you’re both awkward, and you’re both sussing out whether or not you’ll need a friend to ‘call with a major emergency’ in the next 30 minutes ...

There has been much research on first date dynamics, from the tie between male identity construction and offers to pick up the tab[i] to what types of first-date behaviors are likely to produce second ...