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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
It's best not to choose places that are too disruptive, busy and have too many distractions. Some of those places include concerts, movies, night clubs and the like. Going to disruptive or distractive places will make it hard to get to know each other, hard to listen and ask questions, not very romantic! Consider meeting for a lunch at a cafe, go to a nice quaint restaurant, have a simple picnic in a park, plan a trip to an art museum or an aquarium. If you want to keep the traditional "dinner and movie" try a dinner theater where the "theater" is only a small part of the evening and the dinner the larger or more intimate part of the evening. Remember your personality and likes / dislikes too! If you have a favorite place such as a fondue restaurant, go for it! You'd be more comfortable and the both of you more relaxed -- meaning more chances for seeing the real personalities shine though on both your parts!
While it's nice to give a great first impression, try and avoid spending a
week's salary on your first (or second/third) date. Besides the obvious
reasons, (being broke), there are a few more that you may not have
considered. Spending beyond your means will give the impression that you have
a lot of money to spend and this will lead your date to think you have money
to burn! She will, and rightfully so, think that you have more money than you
may have, it can lead to misunderstandings when she expects the same sort of
evening for the next date and the next and that can get sticky! You may think
that she is spoiled if she expects this sort of date, and really, who's fault
is the dishonesty here? A good piece of advice if you want to spend a bit
more, a good sign of style it the customer who tips the waiter or waitress
well!
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Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shall I Compare Thee? by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,
Before I knew thy face or name;
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame
Angels affect us oft, and worshipp'd be;
Still when, to where thou wert, I came,
Some lovely glorious nothing I did see.
But since my soul, whose child love is,
Takes limbs of flesh, and else could nothing do,
More subtle than the parent is
Love must not be, but take a body too;
And therefore what thou wert, and who,
I bid Love ask, and now
That it assume thy body, I allow,
And fix itself in thy lip, eye, and brow.
Whilst thus to ballast love I thought,
And so more steadily to have gone,
With wares which would sink admiration,
I saw I had love's pinnace overfraught;
Ev'ry thy hair for love to work upon
Is much too much, some fitter must be sought;
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme, and scatt'ring bright, can love inhere;
Then, as an angel, face, and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure, doth wear,
So thy love may be my love's sphere;
Just such disparity
As is 'twixt air and angels' purity,
'Twixt women's love, and men's, will ever be.
Air and Angels by John Donne (1572-1631)
You
and your sweetheart love to see the lights in the big city! Tonight is no
different as you step out into the night air w/dreams, expectations, a
breathtaking of Broadway and ten thousand dollars in "play
money" ... the first thing you & your sweeties do as you
step out of your limo ...
Your
perfect date is getting down and dirty in the mud, the dust clouds under your
4-wheel drive, packing a picnic lunch for the only stop you have time for on
this date... the thrill you and your sweetheart feel when you begin to drive
your & baby 4-wheeler over to ....
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My love, we will go, we will go, I and you,
And away in the woods we will scatter the dew;
And the salmon behold, and the ouzel too,
My love, we will hear, I and you, we will hear,
The calling afar of the doe and the deer.
And the bird in the branches will cry for us clear,
And the cuckoo unseen in his festival mood;
And death, oh my fair one, will never come near
In the bosom afar of the fragrant wood.
Love Song by William Butler Yeast (1865-1939)
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By Marion Winik For five years, I was a single mother with two boys. And even though I was lucky enough to have a steady guy (a single dad) in the picture, questions came up all the time. Was it okay for all of us to sleep over at one of our houses? Should we take vacations together? When this relationship ended and another one began a few months later, I was in uncharted waters again.
Based on these experiences and the advice of JoAnn Magdoff, a psychotherapist in private practice in New York, I came up with ten rules for single moms. If you're dating—or want to be but feel nervous about it—keep these tips in mind.
1. You make the rules. Many people seem to have an opinion about single mothers, and their advice when it comes to your private life is: Take up needlepoint. Forget them. A single mother can date, seriously or casually. A single mother can be seen out dancing on a Saturday night. A single mother can even have sex!
2. Nobody loves a parade. It's not necessary to introduce your kids to every guy who takes you to a movie. Wait until you're secure in the relationship before you let your kids perceive someone as "Mommy's boyfriend." Have a reliable sitter lined up, suggests Magdoff, so you don't end up bringing children along before you're ready.
3. Don't lean too hard too soon. Resist the temptation to make the new guy a parenting helper right away, adds Magdoff. Until you've actually decided that the time is right, don't ask him to pick up your daughter from ballet just because it's on his way over for dinner. "Hold back," Magdoff says. "Don't have him take on parenting roles until it feels stupid not to. When all three of you are saying, 'But ballet class is right by his office,' then it's time."
4. Nothing but the truth. While discretion is recommended, lying and sneaking are not. If you think extramarital sex is okay, when questions arise you should be able to explain to your children (in an age-appropriate manner) why and under what conditions. If you can't, then don't do it. Behave as you want your kids to when they reach early adulthood.
5. Have your priorities straight. Keep your hormones in check when making decisions. Maybe it's more important for you to be at the school basketball playoffs than away for the weekend with your beau. But on the other hand:
6. Don't be a martyr. Magdoff warns against using your kids as an excuse to avoid intimacy—putting them between you and your social life. In other words, sometimes the weekend away is more important than the basketball game.
7. When you're out, be out. One way single mothers sabotage relationships and act out their guilty feelings, Magdoff adds, is by talking about their children constantly while on a date. "Five minutes max," she says.
8. Don't succumb to pressure. My long-term relationship was a lot more than dating and a lot less than marriage—and was sometimes a little difficult to explain to outsiders. But it was right for me and my kids at the time. I did what I thought best, and that's why I have no regrets.
9. Leave when it's time. One of the more trying moments in a single mother's life is splitting up with someone her kids care about. I know women who have stayed in iffy relationships "for the kids." This makes even less sense when you're not married. Change and loss are part of life, things everyone has to deal with. If a particular bond is really strong, perhaps there's a way for that adult and child to maintain a connection.
10. Expect resistance. Magdoff says, "Lots of times women are dating perfectly nice guys and their kids are horrible to them, especially if it's the first guy after the divorce or the first one you get serious about." One articulate ten-year-old Magdoff knows admitted to his mother: "It's not Bill who's the problem—I like him. It's you. I used to have you all to myself, and now I have to share you." Acknowledge and accept kids' feelings. Say, "I love you as much as ever, but sometimes I'm not here when you want me to be. I like to spend time with my friends, just like you do." Don't let your kids control you—or try and force them to like the guy, either.
Marion Winik is a writer and a commentator on NPR. Her latest book is The Lunch-Box Chronicles (Vintage).
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