Posted on 12/29/2016 11:31:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
In recent years, somewhere between endless Tinder swipes and countless OkCupid matches, the dinner date has fallen by the wayside.
As online dating surges in popularity, few millennials have the time, money, or desire to sit with a stranger over a long meal. Only 7 in 10,000 messages in a recent OkCupid IAC survey suggested “grabbing some dinner” and a somewhat less scientific survey this reporter conducted of several dozen actively dating 20-somethings found that dinner has become a highly taboo first date. Last month, Moody’s Investors Service slashed its operating-profit growth forecast for the restaurant sector. (This appears to complement another trend noted by market researcher NPD Group that suggests 57 percent of meals in the US are eaten alone.)
There’s good reason why people don’t want to sit through a meal with a stranger for an hour, or often longer. One singleton this reporter spoke to called it her “worst nightmare,” and another said the idea of sitting through an unspecified number of hours of food, drinks or dessert makes her anxious. A recent article in Cosmopolitan detailed “Why First-Date Dinners Suck,” listing similar reasons: The date category is antiquated, the time frame of the event is too long if there is no chemistry, and eating is too “intimate.”
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what a load of shop floor crap
Yes, and jump right into sex then the girls complain about not finding a good guy. Most of the teens and people under 25 I see online they have pics like they’re attempting to cultivate a porn star look or persona. Very sad.
BINGO
Of course...... If I’v heard it once, I’ve heard it a million times,”and so i told that engineer.....”.
“What exactly is the protocol now?”
If they act liberal, run. Problems no matter what.
You walk into a restaurant and you see a table full of people staring at their blasted phones! Or worse talking on them!
Awesome flick. My kids still quote lines from that movie.......
I haven’t dated in over 34 years and even back then I didn’t do dinner dates. I’d meet someone for a drink or coffee but I wanted a quick getaway. Lol
Case in point, lol.
I gotta really disagree with you...
The purest form of love isn't a WANT, it's a commitment to the best for another person. Is co-habitation or long term dating really the best for the other party? Wouldn't they be better off with an iron clad commitment of "until death do we part" with a person who makes sacrifices and chooses the best for their spouse?
And Moist, apparently.
But offended if a guy stares at her but.
Engineers have a very rational, logical thought process. By nature. Necessary for successful mechanical, electrical, materials, process, genetic engineering and coding.
Most females have a very emotional, relative thought process. By nature. And they’re more emotion-based in recent decades from the easy living/homemaking all that engineering has provided.
A good engineer and a typical modern woman are Mars and Venus at max.
MGTOW is an interesting, growing thing...
I will go further. There are women out there these days who are very happy to have money spent on them, but when the pocketbook strings are pulled back even a little, they’re off to find another unhindered pocketbook.
I’ve run into more than my share of takers in the last few years.
Dinner Date?
My first date with my wife was in 1974 and to a pizzeria.
There’s a place for those coupons. The important thing is the quality of the companionship, the safety of the venue, the cleanliness of the venue, and the inclusion of some nicer dates also.
After a short period the woman should volunteer to help pick up some tabs, and then as time passes become full partners if that’s her goal. If it isn’t, all the best...
Thanks KC_Conspirator.
I don’t like to think in those terms, but that’s the way it is out there.
Went out with a woman and a daughter. Spent over $100 on our meal. This was at a local big-name resort. We walked into the gift shop, and she starting picking out things to buy.
We had already gotten over $150, and she sent her daughter out to select more things. Instead of being appreciative, she was angling to get more while the getting was good.
I know exactly what was going on, but I enjoy being nice to people even if I am being taken advantage of. I had no delusions about what was going on, and I had no unspoken goals for the end of the evening. This wasn’t that type of relationship for either of us.
The kid living with a single mom, I was inclined to do nice things.
After that night, I cut off the monetary gravy train.
There are perks to being alone and becoming accustomed to it.
Marriage is no protection against this sort of thing either.
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