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How to Date Better: Finding, Friending, Hooking Up, Breaking Up, and Falling in Love in the 21st Century
It’s 2014 and being in any kind of romantic relationship -- defined, undefined, or unrefined -- is tough. Online dating and hook-up culture, Tinder and Snapchat, Friends with Benefits and Missed Connections. Our modern dating landscape doesn't look like anything that's come before, and we're the brave explorers trying to make sense of it. This collection of practical advice tells you how to do it better. More freedom and less drama. More fun and less guilt. More connection and less loneliness. From the "Ugly Truths about Dating" to "Why Modern Dating is Better." From the "Things Men Will Always Find Attractive in Women" to "Ways to Know You're With the Wrong Guy." From "Advice for the Awkward Dater" to your new go-to "50 Questions to Ask Your Crush to See if They're Right for You." This is your map to the modern dating landscape, a practical guide to finding, friending, hooking up, breaking up and falling in love in the 21st century.
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144 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 27, 2014
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December 16, 2020
Informative
August 5, 2021
This book is TERRIBLE. This is the first time I have written feedback EVER! At one point they say that you may not be dating because you smell bad.... This is list after list of items that 1 will not help you date better and 2 are at times completely f***ing ridiculous.
SKIP SKIP SKIP. There are other books that actually give decent feedback and encourage growth and self reflection.
SKIP SKIP SKIP. There are other books that actually give decent feedback and encourage growth and self reflection.
August 22, 2022
It's a mishmash if multiple perspectives and flows pretty well
May 4, 2021
“Put off arguing in public, this is called respecting each other. Don’t argue in front of friends and family, that’s not cool. You can raise your voice but do that behind closed doors. No one likes to see couples argue, it’s awkward for all of us.”
“Immature dating habits you should grow out of by 25.
Planning how long to date before initiating contact. Purposely trying to make the other person jealous. Threatening to withhold something, ultimatums, consciously creating an illusion that you don’t care. Being involved in the unofficial status known as talking for an extended period of time. When people sum their connection up as talking, it leaves the door open for one of them who is fully committed to be crushed when they find out their less devoted co-talker hasn’t been behaving as if there is any exclusivity.”
“The first time you hang out in silence and it’s super comfortable.”
How to Date Better consists of short chapters from Ella Ceron along with a few other guest authors. I enjoyed the range of advice but most of the chapters consisted of top ten things not to do and so forth so the layout might not be for everyone. It gave me a Buzzfeed vibe which I honestly didn’t mind, so if that’s not what you’re into then maybe this isn’t for you. It was a quick, easy read with helpful tips.
“Immature dating habits you should grow out of by 25.
Planning how long to date before initiating contact. Purposely trying to make the other person jealous. Threatening to withhold something, ultimatums, consciously creating an illusion that you don’t care. Being involved in the unofficial status known as talking for an extended period of time. When people sum their connection up as talking, it leaves the door open for one of them who is fully committed to be crushed when they find out their less devoted co-talker hasn’t been behaving as if there is any exclusivity.”
“The first time you hang out in silence and it’s super comfortable.”
How to Date Better consists of short chapters from Ella Ceron along with a few other guest authors. I enjoyed the range of advice but most of the chapters consisted of top ten things not to do and so forth so the layout might not be for everyone. It gave me a Buzzfeed vibe which I honestly didn’t mind, so if that’s not what you’re into then maybe this isn’t for you. It was a quick, easy read with helpful tips.
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March 5, 2021How to Date Better: Finding, Friending, Hooking Up, Breaking Up, and Falling in Love in the 21st Century is free with an Audible membership, and there's a reason it's free. It's crap, or at least the first essay was and so they should have started off with one of the others. I tuned out listening to some man tell me how to treat your partner better with platitudes like "don't fight in public" and "forgive and forget" and "spooning is great." I believe this is simply a collection of Thought Catalog essays which makes sense; it sounded like a Thought Catalog essay written by a 22-year-old. The narration was also joyfully emotionless. Everything had a happy, playful tone even when it should not have. I stopped before the first essay was over. I've edited and even written better essays on dating in my time with Slutty Girl Problems.
August 14, 2023
A book of lists with commentary. Sometimes very vulgar! This is a collection of online articles, not quite what I expected from the audiobook description. General dating advice, nothing groundbreaking. Uses lists to broach each subject
May 31, 2015
Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap..! This is sea risky like reading 100 pages ripped from the Huntington post..!
July 19, 2017
A realistic and honest approach towards dating in our times.
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