Like it or not, one of the first things we socialize to do as we grow is to make ourselves into a person that another person would want to marry, reproduce with – or at least date. A lot goes into that, and you prepare to be good at it if you can. You can’t go into the dating world just concerned with what YOU want, though many of us often do. You have to run down the list and be the kind of person someone actually wants to be alone with without running for the hills.

Are you hearing me right? If you want to date someone, you have to make a concerted effort not to be creepy. You have to make yourself trustworthy, pleasant to be around and worth somebody else’s time.