Dating After 40: Tips For Easily Meeting People And Dating Again: Planting The Seeds Of Love
Being single and wanting to date from the age of forty can be a challenge meeting new people. You’re not young anymore and you’re in college, where you met fellow singles every day. Also, the pressure can be very uncomfortable. Where can you go these days to meet new people while avoiding the obvious and awkward feeling of the singles bar flirting scene? Find a place you can go, probably weekly, in your own community. Read on for where to go, plus some helpful tips for talking to strangers while you’re there.
Whether you live in the suburbs, in the country, or in a densely populated metropolitan city, chances are there is a farmers market close to where you live. In fact, you may even already be shopping at a farmers market periodically for the freshest produce. However, I bet that while you are shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables from the farm, you have focused exclusively on grocery shopping and your social blinders have increased. You probably haven’t been aware of the crowds of many other people who are there. Or, funnily enough, if you had already realized that all the other people were shopping at the farmers market along with you, you probably would have gotten a bit upset that they were all there, because that meant fewer parking spaces and more people. parking lot.
However, now that crowd of strangers is your friend.
A crowd of strangers regularly moving outdoors from booth to booth together with you now means new people for you to meet and practice your social ease by breaking the ice with them and practicing your similar conversational skills together with them.
See what I mean? The crowd of buyers is no longer a nuisance. Now that crowd is a good thing for you.
You get to practice your light social skills with them, plus you never know where a little romance will come from and start.
Be sure to chat with the farmer vendors. How do you recommend cooking this vegetable? What are some creative ways to prepare a dish with this product? How long is the trip from your farm to the farmers market? Then gently and naturally address the people who are also at the booth along with you. What is your favorite way to serve this vegetable?
Anyone you are enjoying talking to for more than a few minutes, go ahead and casually invite them to join you on the coffee cart. “Oh, there’s the coffee van. I haven’t had my morning cup of coffee yet. Would you like a cup of coffee?” It’s not a date yet. However, plant the seeds for a possible date between the two of you later.
When you leave home, mix things lightly with strangers, open your mouth and talk, remaining open to love, love will find you.