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10 First Date Killers

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Boy meets girl. You flirt. You make a date.

You eat, you drink, you connect. You have the time of your life.

And then, you never hear from him again.

One of you has a really good time, and the other one tries to suck down his plate of linguine as quickly as possible so he can leave and make the pain stop. Or says he had a really great time, promises to call, and then drops off the face of the earth.

What makes a date go from a romantic possibility to "never again"? Chances are, it's one of these 8 dating disasters:

1. You mistook your date for your therapist.
   
   
2. You slept together on the first date.
   
   
3. You tried to determine if he was marriage material (intentions)
   
   
4. You're holding the him and/or the entire male sex responsible for the ghosts of boyfriends past (trust issues, paranoia, etc.)
   
   
5. You acted more like a private detective than a good conversationalist (are you trying to analyze your dates)
   
   
6. You brought your kids. (Talking about them for the entire time is almost the same as having them slurping spaghetti at the dinner table.) If you have kids, you should limit discussion of them to names and ages only for the first date.)
   
   
7. The green-eyed monster. Giving him a hard time for flirting with the waitress.
   
   
8. Trying to create a relationship out of a date.
   
   
9. You made it clear he wasn't gong to get sex, and he was only in it for sex. (Don't stress – he wasn't going to call you back for the second date anyway!)
   
   
10. You just didn't click. You're a great girl. He's a great guy. But the vibe is more friendly than fiery.
    
    

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Lisa Daily, Dream Girl and author of Stop Getting Dumped! All you need to know to make men fall madly in love with you and marry 'The One' in 3 years or less. As seen in/on Cosmopolitan, The Other Half and Howard Stern.

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