You Don’t Have to Explain Your Whole Life Over Coffee
A first date can feel like an invitation to summarise decades. But there is room for honesty, attraction and curiosity without telling your entire story at once.
By Dear Cupid Editorial · · 3 min read
There is a particular conversational gear that a first date can slip into somewhere between ordering coffee and being asked, “So, how did you end up here?” Suddenly, you are trying to explain twenty years in four minutes. There was a marriage, a move, a difficult stretch, another move. The coffee is cooling. You haven’t yet discovered whether this person is funny.
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