How Do You Start Dating‪?‬

You're single, and you're wondering whether you want a relationship or just feel you should.

This book starts before the apps. It helps you work out what you're hoping for, why now, and whether there's room in your life for someone. Then it meets you where you are: never having dated, starting again in your 50s or later, dating after coming out, or living with a family or faith timeline. After that come meeting people, asking someone out, and the stretches when it doesn't go your way.

Inside you'll find:

• Worksheets on what you're hoping for and where a partner would fit in your week
• Scripts for asking someone out, answering family pressure and saying you're new to this
• Checklists for a profile in one sitting and a break that's a real break
• Short made-up examples of people starting from very different places

There are 49 tools in all: 21 worksheets, 15 checklists and 13 scripts, collected again in the toolkit at the back.

A calm, practical start, whatever you decide.

This is Book 1 of A Clarity4Couples Guide, eight books that follow a relationship from wanting one to the year after it ends. It's for reflection and general information, not therapy or professional advice.

Created with generative AI and edited by the author.