She previously served as the blog editor for a major online fashion blog and has more than a decade of backstage experience in the beauty and high fashion industries. She has worked for businesses like an internationally renowned theatrical touring company and events such as the Mercedes-Benz N. The serial dater's black book may be filled with names, but their reputation may suffer. Meet Singles in your Area! Function Serial dating serves one main function: Identification Once a single has started dating more than one person, he may be loosely classified a serial dater.

Types A serial dater can be male or female and young or old. Geography Serial daters like to go after the best, and that means hitting up locales that offer variety. Warning Although serial dating is exciting and fun, it can also come with a bunch of headaches. How to Identify and Avoid the Serial Dater. View Singles Near You.

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It's the women who feel sad and disappointed when he doesn't call the next day. If you get into the habit of "Friends with Benefits" you are less likely to be the girl he'll marry. This is completely different than telling him driving directions, which will drive him away. Let him know how you want to communicate. If a daily phone call is important to you and if you like flirty text messages in between conversations, let him know.

He truly wants to be your hero. If you are always the Friday night or Saturday night date, let him know that this ritual is important to you. Again, if there are too many cancellations, it's a red flag and a sign that you aren't a priority.

Set a time limit. Put a date on your calendar on how long you are willing to date him before receiving a commitment and stick to it. Guys don't like ultimatums. Neither do women, so don't become the nagging girlfriend.

He'll think you'll end up the nagging wife. Be true to yourself and decide when it's time to move on. If he doesn't want to lose you, he'll come back because it was his decision, and that's one that he's more likely to keep. If the serial dater realizes that he wants to ride off into the sunset together with you, and only you, you'll need to feel secure that you are number one, not one of many. The mysterious disappearances and secrets will fade away.

Continuity will replace confusion. He will be proud to have you on his arm and in his life.

You can truly tame the serial dater, when he realizes he has won the prize with you. News Politics Entertainment Communities.

I have wasted a lot of time embarking on mini-relationships under false pretences: I've done things I haven't liked, been to places I haven't wanted to go and pretended to enjoy some really bad theatre all in the name of trying to get a new relationship off the ground. I have peeled off awful underwear and accepted clumsy kisses.

These are the things you do in the early days; it isn't sustainable for any kind of long-term liaison, unless you're a particularly skilful and determined con artist. We put so much importance on love, think of it as a cure-all or the ultimate prize, that most of the time it can only disappoint. It's like the parents sending off their pride and joy to university only for the precious charge to do nothing for three years except take drugs and have STD-laced sex to the strains of Velvet Underground.

Hopes are always high; the reality somewhere nearer down to Earth. So why chase it, I thought, when I can just go about my business to see whether it will come to me? Critics, both online and in person, have derided me for being judgemental of my dates, but I am unconcerned. They miss the point entirely, their glasshouses barely a shard of crystal left in them to keep out the cold.

On a date, we're all judging and being judged. I just write it down. So, y'know, screw you - it's my party and I'll date and slate if I want to. Guy after guy has failed the audition for the least sought-after leading man role in London.