New Man - First Date Strategies

I could barely remember how all of this worked to begin with.  We were finally going to meet!  Finally going to go out on a real date, sit down, eat some dinner and get to know each other!  

I was dressed, makeup on, and pacing in front of my full-length mirror trying to talk myself into staying in the clothes I had on instead of raiding the closet for something else.  Many women have been in this situation.  We sit around way too early, trying to hype ourselves up enough that we won't worry about what he is going to think.

I was two seconds away from finding a completely new wardrobe when he called.  "I'm here!"  
Wow.  I was going "as-is".  

I spent the first ten minutes of our first date thinking, "He hates me.  He really, really hates me.  This is it.  I can already see the prospect of a call-back fading."

It's ok.  We all do it.  In my case, everything worked out just fine.  We had a great dinner with no embarrassing food-betwee-the-teeth occurences, and I did get that call-back.

The last thing we want to do when we need to relax is RELAX!  Women need to learn to stop pacing and stop refusing to believe in yourselves!

It has been my experience that the entire world is searching for love.  We all have that need to feel needed.  It is true that there are moments in our lives where meeting a new man makes us think of the bleak possibility of ending up alone watching I love Lucy reruns in our golden years.  We, as women, need to learn the importance of a positive outlook.  

Yes, granted, there are millions of women who put on their sexy clothes, barely blink into the mirro and think they are God's gift to man, and if he is stupid enough to pass up on it, there is another man waiting in the wings.  His Loss.  Hands Down. Period.