Dating is one really hot topic and there are always people that are looking for ways to make things work better for you and the people that you would happen to date.
However, for one to rally have a dating life that is good, you would have first to deal with yourself as a person before you can begin to deal with the other qualities that the other people would bring to the table.
You need to keep dating simple, not complicated, and that you need to be straightforward in your intentions, not keeping anything hidden.
As you deal with yourself, one thing that you have got to take care of is your past, and you have to let the past remain in the past.
This is not something that you would always want to bring up whenever you go to a date, for example, talking about an ex who did you wrong.
This would in fact make you to look like you are still in pain and that the date you are with is not the person you should actually be on that date with.
Since you and that person are now over, move on, and appreciate the person you are with by talking about things that are productive.
Part of self-knowledge when it comes to dating is that you know what exactly what your interests are and also your goals.
On a date, you should just be yourself, not presenting yourself in a way that would mislead your date into believing that you are something that you are not, because cracks would always appear in any of the stories that you cook up.
You would also tend to be less comfortable in talking about the stories that you have made up, and in the end you and your date would probably not go on more dates when the truth comes out.
It is quite well known it is on the first dates that things go wrong and that at times we create the wrong impressions of ourselves which we come up to clear up later if you go on another date with the same person.
Thus, as you probably know how any of your first dates have gone then you need not also have too expectations that are bound not to be met.
You need to realise that your date would be as human as you are, and that they are also prone to feeling some jitters the first time that they are going out with someone.
One thing that people would commonly talk about when it comes to dating is that of who is supposed to settle the bills of the place that you visit.
As a man, the onus would be on you to take care of it, as man see it to be fitting to do so, but since you know yourself with regard to your finances, you could let your date pay.
Whatever decision that you come to, ensure that you are fine with it and that your conscience is clear about the matter.