Dating Tips

Blind Dating Tips for Jewish Singles

The following blind dating tips for Jewish singles apply whether you’re dating another Jewish person or a gentile. Whilst they’re not exclusively aimed at Jewish singles going on a blind date; being dating tips for Jewish singles they’re probably of most use to someone wondering what to do on their first blind date. Let’s face it, if you really hit it off after that first date – then you’ll have no problems at all talking to one another about what you’d like to do on the next date.

Having a blind date

It’s almost a movie cliché but for some reason Jewish family and elders, even our friends sometimes, see it as their duty to arrange a blind date for another Jewish person that is single – at just about any time around or after the age they could go to college. Why they all think we’re incapable of organizing our own dates defeats me – but just as nature abhors a vacuum; so to seemingly our peers abhor the fact that we might not be imminently ready to settle down. Whether its our mothers, friends or even I guess fathers that do the arranging; having a blind date arranged for you can be great fun or disastrous – and there’s usually very little middle-ground with this. Hopefully, if someone else arranges a blind date for you they will have done so because they genuinely feel you’ll really like the other person and want to see them again. However, dependant on how well you know your friends, you might want to be wary if a friend organizes a blind date for you – just to make up the numbers for themselves!

Having some control on a bind date

The first dating tip for Jewish singles on a blind date is to keep an open mind. Whatever your ideal man or woman is like in appearance and personality – put it out of your mind to start with. If the bind date does happen to match everything you dreamed of – great, that’s a bonus for you. Otherwise just wait and see what the person looks like and how they come across to you – you never know you might have altered your ideal model by the end of the date. Secondly, whoever’s arranging the blind date for you try and get them to make it somewhere or something that has lots of other attractions, or distractions, and can preferably be a relatively short meeting/date. Perhaps try and convince the person arranging the blind date that a lunch or even just meeting over morning coffee would be a good idea. That way if you don’t hit it off you’re not stuck for hours on end with someone you don’t want to be with; whereas if things do get off to a good start you can extend it as long as you want to or quickly arrange another date. Blind dates can, of course, be with out without another couple. If you’re with another couple, as said earlier, be wary of just being there to make up the numbers. To help you have some control over the blind date another dating tip for Jewish singles is to think about who’s paying for what. If other people are going to be at the blind date it might be their treat, if not or if you’re ‘on your own’ so to speak, then make it clear you want to pay your own way to start with. As the date progresses you can decide later if you want to stick with that arrangement or alter it. A commonly asked question in dating tips for Jewish singles is – how to end a blind date. The key word here is ‘end’. If either of you on the blind date feels it’s not going any further then a polite “nice to have met you” will suffice with a cheery wave goodbye. However, if you’ve arranged another date, with or without other people, then a proverbial ‘peck on the cheek’ and something like “look forward to seeing you ….” Will be quite sufficient to get the message across that so far and on first impressions, you’re quite keen on them.