Welcome to the Dating Blook! This is a book about dating that was written as a blog, thus, a blook. Although the blook was completed during the summer of 2011, I am still publishing independent articles to the appendix on occasion. I hope you enjoy reading and look forward to interacting with your comments.
Introduction: The Method is the Message
Chapter 1: The Mystery of Attraction
- 1.1: Attraction is Hard Wired
- 1.2: Is it Possible to Make Yourself More Attractive?
- 1.3: What to Do with the Feelings of Attraction
Chapter 2: The Front Door and the Back Door
- 2.1: Two Ways to Ask a Woman on a Date
- 2.2: The Biggest Mistake Guys Make in Dating
- 2.3: The Biggest Mistake Girls Make in Dating
- 2.4: How to Ask for the First Date
- 2.5: Responding to the Ask
- 2.6: Principles & Practices for the First Date (part 1)
- 2.7: Principles & Practices for the First Date (part 2)
Chapter 3: Defining the Dating Relationship
- 3.1: Developing a Date into a Relationship
- 3.2: Defining the Relationship (part 1)
- 3.3: Defining the Relationship (part 2)
- 3.4: Growing the Relationship
- 3.5: Courtship
Chapter 4: Ending the Dating Relationship
- 4.1: Dating is a Necessary Evil
- 4.2: What Makes Somebody “the One?”
- 4.3: Breaking Up: “It’s Not You, It’s Me”
- 4.4: Engagement
- 4.5: Don’t Waste Your Engagement
- 4.6: A Wedding does not a Marriage Make
- 4.7: Conclusion
- A.01: The Art of Flirting
- A.02: Talking to her Father
- A.03: The Dating E-Blook (download a free .pdf of the entire blook here)
- A.04: Physical Intimacy while Dating
- A.05: Long Distance Relationships
- A.06: 10 Types of Date Ideas
- A.07: Using the Terms ‘Boyfriend’ and ‘Girlfriend’
- A.08: Can Men and Women be “Just Friends”?
- A.09: A Few Thoughts About Online Dating
- A.10: The “I Love You” Moment
- A.11: Dating and Spirituality (New entry! Not included in e-blook yet)
A Method for Dating 