Date night! – Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

Today's newsletter is about Chick-Fil-A, my marriage and what happened before.

Let's start with the situation today: I've told you that before. I am a happily married man. My wife is smart, nice and beautiful. We have a wonderful family. Life is very good.

But things were not always like that! Years ago when I came out of my last relationship before I found romantic and domestic Shangri-La, a friend gave me advice:

Put your past exactly in the past. Go tons and tons of data. Find strength in numbers.

In this sense, I decided to meet 100 women in a single year. It was a great experience in building trust, and I thought of writing a book about it.

Let me take the most important: This crazy project actually worked. As it turned out, I quit about two thirds of the path by the project when my woman now entered the picture.

(I think it was a clever decision for me to give up the idea of ​​writing a book about dating when I started to date with the woman I married.)

I thought of my “life date of life” (sorry) when I heard that Chick-Fil-A had number 1 in the category of the eyebrow survey of “more popular fast food restaurants for the first dates”.

On the website datingnews.com, she asked 3,000 American men whether she believed that it would be a good idea to bring a first date for a fast food restaurant.

Dye me surprised, but 54 percent of the men said, absolutely, that sounds like a great idea. Perhaps even more surprising, 66 percent of women stated that they would be fine.

The men drilled chick-fil-A as a top quick chain for the first appointments, with dairy queen and pizza hut taking second and third place.

“A first date is a risk, and in this economy, modern singles save time and money by choosing a chicken sandwich over a chicken marsala,” said Amber Brooks, editor-in-chief at datingnews.com.

I do not want to suggest that this is a kind of double -blind study that experts examined. There is more food to think.

There is also a part of me who giggles a bit every time I hear someone say “In this economy? “

(Speaking of this, as far as I can judge this, this survey was Limited to men who ask women about data.))

I am not sure whether I would have personally regarded Chick-Fil-A as a first-date event location, but I had a few “Ging” Billig ideas a day earlier: For example:

• Meet for a drink in the city center and then go to crazy, long walk and talk directly out of an Aaron Sorkin film;

• To meet a cheap Taqueria near my apartment or at 7 -dollars at the Washington National Baseball Games; And

• Tandem parachute jumping (we were attached to an instructor, not together).

I only did this idea of ​​the last date once, and to be fair, it doesn't really belong on a list of cheap Data.

However, if you are still in the dating world, I recommend Tandem parachuting. You will leave an impression.

In order to be a little more serious for a moment, we cannot open our telephones these days without algorithmically to receive another report on how people simply do not go out and meet romantically in the numbers they earlier.

It is an important topic if we believe that humanity should be continued.

Stand up to a recently suggested at Stanford University study that points out that the pandemic led to 13 million “additional” single Americans who would probably have otherwise paired:

For millions, dating and other social activities have never recovered, with effects that are not only personally and psychologically, but even economical and maybe even political.

The job offer, demand for living space and the tax revenue all depend on the demographic dynamics that begin with a first date. Casual dating can lead to moving into the marriage, child, home ownership and common savings accounts.

“Almost all more serious relationships begin in this gray area,” says Michael Rosenfeld, Professor of Stanford Sociology. “But these initial relationships are more susceptible to disorders and separation.

We all need relationships and we all need places for them to start.

Look, maybe you have made life experiences similar to mine, or you haven't done it yet. (Or maybe they have children and they would like to see how they find someone who is something special.)

Nevertheless, they agree that the best things sometimes happen when they take a courageous step forward without things developing.

So, my advice – from which I hope you help you to spread yourself – is easy:

Ask them! Ask him! Ask who you want!

The worst thing that can happen is that you say no. (Your loss.)

Bring them to Chick-Fil-A when that is your jam. Why not?

But seriously, do not sleep when jumping down. No matter what happens on your date, I guarantee that you remember it.

Election time. Let us do our own experiment and see if this BMJ mental health People know what they are talking about.

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