Dating Advice From The Perpetually Dateless: Issue 2

A continuation of dating tips you all should include in your lives.

Dating can be a struggle at any stage in your life. Whether you’re 27 and looking for a husband or you’re a college student who just started their junior year and hasn’t had a boyfriend since your encounter with Tommy back in kindergarten (doesn’t count as a first kiss if you were six years old, Amy).

It’s often hard to figure out whether a person wants to fuck you or date you, especially if you’re in your late teens and twenties. Keep your chin up and stop complaining 24/7 because that will essentially get you nowhere and every guy you encounter will know how extremely desperate you are from the way you act.

Since you’re all desperate enough to read this article anyway, you’ve reached that point in your life where you probably don’t know how the fuck to meet someone or whether you’ll ever actually meet someone who is the right person for you. Here’s some advice on how to meet guys at any stage in your life, whether that be college or your late twenties.

Join a club or publication where you get to hang out with the members and chances are you’ll befriend someone who knows a guy who might be interested or you’ll actually meet a guy who is in the said club or publication who will have an interest in you. Sitting at home crying and watching Netflix will only make you lazy, fat, and useless, so get up and try to do something to make your life more interesting.

Worst case scenario, you’ll join the club/publication, meet no one worthy of your time, hate it, add it to your resume, and then talk about how “informative and interesting” it was when you’re interviewing for your next job. You can’t include Netflix and chill on your resume either, so in the end, your Netflix routine proves to be worthless anyway.

In addition, joining clubs and publications will prompt you to make friends, and those friends will likely invite you to their pregames, holiday parties, or get-togethers at some point, which could entail meeting more guys in the end.

However, I am not saying that you should join these publications solely to find a boyfriend; that would also be extremely desperate. Join these clubs and publications to find out more about yourself and hang out with people who have similar interests, and eventually, it could lead to meeting someone who you could see yourself spending the rest of your life with.

In addition to clubs and publications, try going out with friends to bars and clubs. I know some of you view yourselves as “grandmothers” who stay in and roam various blogs and watch movies on Friday nights, but going out can be a fun way to spend some time with friends and to meet new people.

However, keep in mind that by going out, I do not mean getting shit faced with your best friends and end up eating pizza drunkenly by yourselves at 2 am. Keep your alcohol intake at a decent level so that, if you do meet someone, you can have a decent conversation with them without sounding like your deaf uncle Bill at Thanksgiving.

Again, worst case scenario, if you don’t meet anyone cool, you’ll still have a great time hanging out with friends rather than staying in alone and roaming the internet for hours on end.

If you’re in college and one of your friends asks you to come to a frat party, go for the fun of it. No one really likes frat parties, but if you’re not a first year trying to get shit-faced, going to frat parties with your friends can actually be a pretty fun time.

Another way to meet people is to show up to events you’ve been invited to. I have often been invited to various events and ignored them because I have had no one to go with because most of my friends were busy or out of town. Don’t do that.

Go out and have a good time! It’ll probably be awkward at first when you don’t know anyone there, but chances are there will be an open bar and a classmate you sort of know roaming around in the area, so you can grab a drink, increase your confidence, and make a buddy in a class you’ve been struggling in.

I know that some people have a lot of anxiety when it comes to showing up to events alone, but I promise all your anxiety will wear off after a while when you realize you’re enjoying yourself in the company of strangers, who will probably now become acquaintances, and maybe even friends.

My main point is that you cannot expect to meet someone if you’re not putting yourself out there. Staying in all the time won’t push you to find out more about yourself, what your goals are in life, and who you’re truly looking for, and it definitely won’t lead you to meet new people who could be potential dating material in the future.