Emily Clarke

Overcome Your First Date Jitters With These Ice Breakers

It's hard enough to meet someone, let alone to get past the awkwardness of setting up that first date. Once the two of you are together face-to-face, however, often the real challenge begins of breaking the ice and getting conversation flowing. Here are some simple dating conversation starters to keep the conversations rolling at all your first dates.

1. Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?

Most, though not all, people identify themselves more as a dog-lover or cat-lover, and those that don't often have an equally interesting alternative answer. Since people are generally enamored with their pets, whichever answer they choose, it's almost always sure to spur engaging and playfully intimate conversations about their love for animals. This can also give you a good idea whether you share compatibility in animal preference or, even, if certain animal allergies for one of you may be an issue for the potential relationship.

2. Who are your role models and why?

You can find out a lot about a person by discovering the people they admire and aspire to emulate. Learning why they admire the people they do helps you see the character traits they most value in others and seek to cultivate in themselves.

3. What was the last concert or other live performance you attended?

Dating conversation starters like these may be a bit more difficult to ask or answer in the age of COVID, but it can also create a sense of shared nostalgia as the two of you hearken back to simpler times when activities like live performances were so much more available and accessible. Sharing such experiences also gives you both a good idea of whether you share certain tastes in music and the arts in common.

4. Tell me more about this specific thing I noticed on your dating profile.

Identify something on your date's dating profile that piques your interest or that you think there may be a story behind and invite the person to share more about that subject. People love to talk about their interests and they appreciate others who take an interest in what interests them.

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Emily Clarke writes about social networking apps and LGBT community. You can find her thoughts at lesbian aesthetic blog.