GRAZIA'S LIFE SKILLS

ASK THE EXPERT I’m really bad at first dates. What should I do differently? Kate Taylor is dating expert at Ourtime, the online dating site for over fifties While 85% of older singles feel confident messaging online, only 36% feel comfortable making face-to-face conversation on a date, Ourtime recently discovered. But there are ways to make your first date conversational skills foolproof, or awkward-proof. Start with open-ended questions. Interviewers quickly learn to avoid questions that can be answered with ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Instead, they ask open questions to extract more information. These turn a stop-start conversation into a flowing one. A question such as ‘What’s been the best bit of your day so far?’ encourages your date to open up, without feeling interrogated. Or you can change a simple question…

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