If you want to impress on the first date, make sure you’re prepared. Give yourself ample time to finish work, do errands and get ready for your night out. You don’t want to be that person who has to ...

You could spend the hours before a date obsessing over your hair, makeup, or outfit. Or you could channel that energy into brainstorming what to ask the stranger you’re splitting a basket of ...

Here’s what nobody tells you about coffee dates: you’re basically signing up for an hour-long job interview where the desk ...

Going on a first date is always a bit stressful, but a relationship expert recently gave some tips about what to avoid to make sure the initial meetup goes as well as it possibly can. Dr. Terri Orbuch ...

Whether you have never been on a date before or you’ve been single for some time, most men know little about how to have a great first date. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been single. It could be ...

Another Valentine’s Day without a Valentine has come and gone and you are now ready to find the one. You have signed up for online dating, asked your friends and family to hook you up, flirted with ...

A reader wonders if received wisdom about a certain “ideal outfit” still holds true. Our fashion critic offers a first-date fashion philosophy. By Vanessa Friedman First of all, there is no such thing ...

On a first date, you have one job: get to know each other. After you’ve covered the basics — jobs, siblings, neighborhoods — you might want to dive a little deeper. Unfortunately, launching a ...

The last point always gets some questions. Sometimes we walk into a date and know within a matter of minutes that there is no physical attraction whatsoever. I’m a big believer that attraction can ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You could spend the hours before a date obsessing over your hair, makeup, or outfit. Or you could channel ...