Date Ideas

With the days of video chat dates thankfully behind us (for the most part, anyway), it’s time to get back out there. If you’re feeling a little rusty on the first-date-ideas front, you’re not alone. How exactly were we wining and dining before 2020? No shame if, all of a sudden, despite being a Philly …

“Wanna grab a drink?” “Catch you for a coffee?” There are a lot of really vanilla date ideas out there. How much can you really learn about your match over an oat milk flat white? If your go-to dates are getting as stale as a Starbucks croissant, then it’s time to get creative. By exploring …

You may be a fitness-mad couple who’ve run out of ideas and jogged that same route one too many times, or maybe you’ve come out of your Netflix-and-takeout honeymoon phase and realized you’re feeling a bit less healthy than you did a few months ago. Or you might just want to throw a fun and …

Long-distance relationships are difficult at the best of times. Even a humdrum nothing-special day can be tough. Feeling too far away from each other, feeling lonely and disconnected from the person you love, it’s hard. Throw in an anniversary, a day that should be extra special and exciting and definitely spent together, and you’ve got …

Someone agreeing to go on a date with you is totally thrilling. You’ve worked your magic, a few days have passed with a good amount of messages and plenty of coy smiles on your phone screen.  You’re learning a lot about each other but there’s so much more to know. And now they’ve said yes! …

You’ve used all your best moves and bagged date number one, and you’re feeling great! But then you have to show the real you, for a sustained amount of time, in person.  You can’t carefully craft each response in real life like you can on Tinder. Saying, ‘Sorry, my boss was really on me for …

Hopefully with delight? But potentially with fear. Anyway, ‘tis the season! No, not the one with snow and big green trees. Or the turkey one. It’s SPOOKY season. Aka, my favorite of the three because it’s the straight-up silliest. Halloween can be as spooky or as cute as you want it to be. In fact, …

If you ask me ‘Is a movie at home a good date?’ I would say yes, almost always! But if you’re asking, ‘Is a movie at home a good first date?’ my answer might be different. The thing is, the first date at home, alone, just the two of you can be a bit much. …

Dating is often expensive. This is especially true for those first few exciting dates when the thought of your dwindling bank account completely flies from your mind in the face of romantic prospects. If you want to avoid a rough thump down to Earth at the ATM the morning after a night with someone great …

We were all hoping that summers were gonna be ‘back to normal’ with thigh-to-thigh indoor dates and all of us breathing the same air. But you know what? We’ve gotten used to the outdoors now! And the worst of COVID may be over, but we’re staying there. Luckily, in summer and fall, it’s not too …