Cupids Dating Blog

For some, date ideas like going for a quiet walk on the beach, or to sitting on a park bench and talking, could be considered a dating faux pas, but some of the best times I've had on dates were when neither one of us spent a dime. It's absolutely wonderful to be able to spend time with someone in a quiet place where you're able to focus all your attention on each other and not be distracted by all that's going on around you. What better way to really get to know someone than to go on a fun, cheap date?

The last time I did this, I went on a date with a woman who was just getting over being dumped. She'd spent years in a relationship with a guy who'd spent the better part of those years in front of the television, hardly ever paying attention to her, or acknowledging her presence...unless it was time to eat, of course. We went walking along a beach at sunset, then sat down on a log by the ocean, drank a bottle of wine, and just talked---for hours. I, for my part, was glad for the quiet solitude of the setting and the opportunity to spend time with this wonderful woman who had been ignored for entirely too long. Later we found out that we weren't exactly right for each other, but both of us relished the memory of that beautiful night and our friendship has endured to this day. We gave each other the chance to really get to know one another that night and I'm not sure that would've been possible if not for our simple expectations and isolated setting.

Given the choice between taking a girl to a fancy restaurant, or going somewhere quiet for a nice, good-old-fashioned economical date, I'll take the latter, every time.