Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 74th episode of the simple

sophisticated. Today we are going to talk about dating so we are in the realm of relationships. I've received a handful of

emails over the past few months asking me to dive into episodes about this

particular topic and maybe not specifically this topic,

but in the area of dating.

And so what I've created is actually a first date cheat sheet

or checklist, depending on how you want to look at it and it really

comes from a compilation of all my experiences plus having done some research from

very other experts in the fields and people that been there done

that successfully so. Now I am in the middle of experimenting in the whole dating situation as a whole and believe

me I will be reporting as soon as I find having a consensus on what is successful,

what isn't successful, how to go about it, and I think

it's always an ongoing process, it's always evolving, there's always different avenues, and

since we're all different people, there's not one concrete way but there are some definite do's and don't we can

maybe listen to and be aware of the internet as you know is full of do's and

don't speaking of do's and donones, when it comes to first dates.

After all, there are so many unknowns because potentially both parties on this first

date are complete unknowns to each other, which ratchets up the uncertainty level even higher and while each

first state experience will be different the one variable you have control of is you.

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