What’s the Worst Dating Advice You’ve Received?

Advice.  It’s defined as “a pro­posal for an appro­pri­ate course of action”. I’ve given a lot of advice to peo­ple, some I know and some I don’t know.  Some of this advice is pretty good, while other advice I’ve doled out has been pretty damn awful.  Like that time I told Jason Rybka in high school that the sore on Jenny Gardner’s lip was noth­ing to worry about…  Sorry dude.  Any­way, good advice is sage; some­thing that can surely help you avert dis­as­ter.  How­ever, poor advice… Poor advice gets peo­ple punched in the baby-​​maker.  True story.  I’ve seen that TV show, ‘Cheaters,’ and I know what’s up!  By the way, bril­liant freak­ing show.  Right up there with ‘Celebrity Box­ing,’ but I digress.  So I was think­ing about bad dat­ing advice that I’ve been given over the years.  Man… I either need to stop tak­ing advice from my friends or stop being so naive!!!

Talk About Shoe Size — Seri­ously!  An old friend of mine gave me two pieces of advice that were awful.  Talk­ing about shoe size was one of those tid­bits of advice and I don’t think I can tell you about the other with­out being mor­bidly embar­rassed!  I’d like to state that this advice had been given to me before my 21st birth­day and I no longer do this… Thankfully.

Any­way, yeah, I would go on dates here and there and make it a point to talk about my shoe size because I was made to believe that would make a girl think about the size of my, um, jack ham­mer… Yep.  It took some time, but after enough ran­dom dates telling women about my shoe size and the puz­zled responses, I cut that non­sense out pretty quickly and I also stopped tak­ing advice from that old friend.

Don’t Call For ‘X’ Num­ber of Days — I never got this one.  There is no for­mula.  I think the only thing here is that you prob­a­bly wouldn’t want to call your date, lit­er­ally, min­utes after your first date has fin­ished.  That seems needy and inse­cure.  Out­side of that, even call­ing the next day seems like fair game to me.  I’ve called women the day after a date, up to two weeks after a date (I mis­placed the gal’s phone num­ber) and it makes lit­tle dif­fer­ence.  If you’re inter­ested, show your date that you are.  Be direct.

Don’t Tell Her You’re Inter­ested, be Aloof! — Sure, there’s some­thing to be said for the chase, but there’s also some­thing to be said for know­ing where one stands, too!  I’ve con­fused a woman or two in my younger days (aka two months ago, cause I’m a douche bag) by not let­ting a girl know what she means and what I want from her.  If you have feel­ings for a woman, let her know!

Drunk Tex­ting is Cute; it Shows You Care — Um, no, drunk tex­ting is NOT cute.  Now that I’m older and crankier, I don’t like my sleep to be inter­rupted.  I need that damn sleep, peo­ple!  So if a woman I am dat­ing does that, I will be annoyed… I’ll prob­a­bly make fun of some genetic trait passed down by my girl’s mom.  It also has the effect of show­ing you are des­per­ate.  So knock it off!

Cause a Fight for the Make Up Sex! — This one.  Just because the Styl­is­tics sang ‘Break Up to Make Up’ doesn’t mean that it’s for every­one.  You should only do this if you are a pro­fes­sional with such things.  Noth­ing sucks worse than caus­ing a fight with your “spe­cial friend” only to find them leav­ing you never to return.  Don’t be an asshole.

Don’t Worry, if They Love You, They Will Change — Oh brother.  This one has got­ten me in trou­ble over the years.  I suf­fered a long time with the “white knight” syn­drome, try­ing to help the bro­ken and tired women of the dat­ing world.  Rela­tion­ships shouldn’t be about find­ing your “miss­ing half,” so to speak.  I believe that a rela­tion­ship works when two peo­ple, who are whole, come together to form a sin­gle union, or bond.  So wait­ing for your spe­cial some­one to stop smok­ing, fin­ish school, get a bet­ter job etc. etc. isn’t always the best thing to do.  Find­ing some­one who is already on the same path you are on is optimal.

Be Your­self - Okay.  How would I ever get to date num­ber two if I was just being me?  Stu­pid advice. =)

On that last item, I’m kid­ding of course.  Tread your own water and make your own mark… Just don’t be an asshole.

Related posts:

1. 5 Ways to Tell if Your New Girl Digs You Like Dig Dug.
2. 6 Things You Shouldn’t Do On a Date.
3. Dat­ing on a Budget.
4. 5 Top­ics to Avoid on a Date.
5. Online Dat­ing: Get­ting Out of the Inbox.