8 Things We Want To Tell Our Potential Suitors: The First Date No No’s For Men

July 11th, 2012 - By Jazmine Denise Rogers

madamenoire.com

1. Don’t text or talk on your phone

Okay, the occasional and brief call or taking care of some random emergency is one thing, most women are level-headed and understanding. We know things happen. Now, to continuously answer your phone, send text messages, post Facebook statuses and hold extended conversations on a first date is downright rude. Hold those phone calls until the date is over, please. That’s just common courtesy.

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  • Anonymous

    What’s funny…the guys that talk about their money all night are the same ones who usually claim that “most women are golddiggers.” Ummm….

  • justsayin

    Restaurants and movies are bad first date ideas anyway.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536872959 Aaron T. Starks

      I agree. Restaurants are far too stuffy a setting for relaxing and getting to know someone. But so many women insist on being taken out to eat. And it’s funny, no matter how late you agree to meet, somehow a woman hasn’t eaten all day! You can agree to eat at 10:00PM and she’ll say she hasn’t eaten anything since breakfast. LOL!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536872959 Aaron T. Starks

    To piggyback on the “don’t blink about picking up the bill” how about ladies not go OC on ordering like you’re out with Jay-Z or something. I know a LOT of sistas simply use dates as a one off to get taken to a nice restaurant but advice to the ladies who actually LIKE the guy they’re on a date with: THE quickest way to get dropped with the swiftness is to come off like you don’t understand that guy doesn’t have unlimited funds to feed your selfish self. No first date dinner should come to more than $80-$90. That’s for food and drinks for both. If you had that restaurant you “always wanted to try” and just wait for a guy to ask you out in order to go there, you’re on the wrong path already.

    It’s the same thing in a bar/club. When a guy walks up to you, you’re drink your beer or drink of choice. A guy offers to buy you a drink, and you pick up the drink menu and look for the most exotic/expensive drink you “always wanted to try”. Men are onto you and ain’t plain’…

    • neka24

      I actually agree with you on the restaurant and the check. Though I’ve had guys spend far more and I’d realize this so I offered to go Dutch. But if they insist I don’t see the problem. Also, if you fear that the woman is going to buy the most exotic/ expensive drink, then don’t offer to buy! Problem solved.

  • thavoiceofthevoiceless

    Do you guys have to make us “Close and Proceed to madamenoire” on every slide just to get to the next page. It’s getting ridiculous.

    • shani

      Agreed. I spend more time trying to click out of ads then I do reading the articles.

  • JaneDoe

    Money and the ex always gets me.. My last date made it a point to tell me how well off him and his family is.. I just gave him the blank stare.. What does your money and family money have to do with me.. At it happens all the time. The ex thing is the big red flag for me. It says that person was the one that hurt them the most and they are just not over that person.. Check please

  • Hmmmm

    Okay, so let me get this straight: It is okay – according to this site and others – for women to have sex on the first date if they choose but men should not talk about sex on the first date?

    • JaneDoe

      Sex on the first date can just happen w/o it being talked about.. Its more based on the chemistry that you have with that person

      • Hmmmm

        I dont know, Jane. I’m grown. I’ve had it come to me both ways. The ambiguity might have been cute in my 20s but in my 30s if a woman can be comfortable in her sexuality and desires I see no problem in stating mine. I can even do it seductively so that the woman feels desired and good about her “respectability.”
        Then again, I tend to not be attracted to women to concerned with remaining respectable. Quite the burden (and good times killer) it can be.

  • sabrina

    I personally feel if a guy is too into his phone while out on a date, he’s doing so on purpose. He’s just not that into you.