Tips for Blind Dates and Meeting Single Women

Find out everything you need to know about making a good impression and having fun when you are setup on a blind date.

The urge to seek out viable relationships and meeting single people is still very much a part of human nature. This has led to more people hedging their bets and trying their luck with blind dates. Everywhere people are looking to find their “better halves”, and this prove challenging due to distance, work and our inability to find people we can relate to.

Friends are the biggest organizers for setting up the blind date with single women. They usually have our premier interests in mind, and feel compelled to pair two singletons together that may hopefully find relationship bliss thereafter. This option of going on a blind date catalyzed by a friend has its positive and negative points. For one, your friend has essentially “screened” both of you for potential compatibility, and she or he can serve as a reference for a good judge of character. You can always blame him or her too, if it doesn’t turn out well. That is to say, that most people don’t actively try to have a blind date; it is normally a product of pity (or goodwill) from a friend who feels their intervention may help you extricate yourself from the rut of too many nights in alone. On the downside, however, blind dates can prove totally disastrous, with now an uncomfortable air permeating any social event when all of your friends get together.

Blind dates are not new; many people have been doing it for decades. Yet in our modern times, it is becoming a common occurrence for those who cannot bear to wait to meet that someone special either in a bar or at someone’s wedding reception. Even the idea of blind marriages has been traditionally done in many cultures throughout the centuries.

Finding someone through the “Men seeking Women” or variations thereof ads in the newspapers are probably the largest risk if you want to go on a blind date. There are no pictures, references or assurances that the person is not totally mad or unsuitable, and you usually get three or four clichéd lines that say absolutely nothing about their general character.

Other options, though I think more risky, are finding people through the Internet, newspaper ads or dating agencies. Finding someone on the Internet may be the easiest and least daunting way of making first contact with someone, but you may have no way of knowing they are legitimate until you actually take the leap of faith and go on the blind date. Going on a blind date with someone you meet through a dating agency may be the least risky, in the sense that you can ultimately verify the person’s identity and you have a middleman to broker the deal.

There is also the fairly new phenomenon of speed dating. It may be an option if you would like to spend a masochistic time out with friends, but is probably not the wisest choice for a deep, long lasting partnership. It is akin to having a blind date twenty times over in a space of forty minutes and is not foolproof in any way.