Dating After 40 - Tips to Easily Meet People and Move Into Dating Again: Planting the Seeds for Love
Being single and wanting to date in your forties and older, it can be quite a challenge to meet new people. You're no longer young and in college where you met single peers every day. Plus the pressure can feel very awkward. Where can you go these days to meet new people while avoiding uncomfortable and obvious feeling of the pick up scene at singles bars? Discover a place you can go, likely weekly, right in your own community. Read on to learn where to go, plus some helpful tips for talking with strangers while you are there.
Whether you live in the suburbs, the country, or a highly populated metropolitan city, chances are there is a farmers market near where you live. In fact, you might even already be shopping at a farmers market periodically to purchase the freshest of produce. However, I bet that while you are there shopping for farm fresh fruits and vegetables that you have been exclusively focused on food shopping and that your social blinders have been up. You have probably been oblivious to the crowds of many other people who are there. Or, all too funnily enough, if you had previously noticed all the other people there shopping at the farmers market along with you that you had likely been a little annoyed that they were all there, because that meant fewer parking spaces, and a more crowded parking lot.
However, now that crowd of strangers is your friend.
A crowd of strangers regularly moving about in the open air from booth to booth along with you now means, new people for you to meet and practice your social ease breaking the ice with them, and practicing your like conversational skills along with them.
See what I mean? No longer is the crowd of your fellow shoppers an annoyance. 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 they recommend cooking this vegetable? What are a few creative ways to prepare a dish with this produce? How long is the drive from their farm to the farmers market? Then lightly and naturally turn to the people also in the booth along with you. What is your favorite way to serve this vegetable?
Anyone you are enjoying talking with for more than a few minutes, go ahead and just casually invite them to join you over at the coffee cart. "Oh there's the coffee van. I haven't had my morning cup of coffee yet. Do you want to grab a cup of coffee?" This isn't yet a date. However, it does plant the seeds for a possible date between you two later.
When you get out of the house, mix things up lightly with strangers, open your mouth and converse, remaining open to love, love will find you.
