True Love After 40

First dates can be awkward and uncomfortable if you tend to be on the shy side.  Keep in mind that you're only going to meet another person and share a short period of time together.  If both of you are prone to shyness an hour can feel like a day.

So, what to do?  Develop a list of questions to start a conversation.  Keep these questions light.  You don't want to come across as an interrogator.  Let's say you're a single parent and you want to know how your date feels about children.  Here's a great first date question:

"The other day I took my daughter to the park.  She loves the swings and begs me to take her there at least once a week.  I sometimes walk the track there.  Do you ever go to the park?"

Of course, this is an example that you can modify for your own uses, citing a particular park or other place you frequent with your child. It breaks the ice about children and sets up a possible second date to walk the track at the park.

I hope this gets yourcreative mind working!

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