Sunday, November 22, 2009

Why Date More Than One Man?

By Alan Bentley

You may feel that you are just wasting your time when you go out on those dates, as they invariably seem to lead nowhere and you end up spending a lot of your time and months of your life with no real results. Couldn't you consolidate all this time more effectively and try and date more than one man at a time? This is surely going to give you better odds of success, right?

You may think that you were just hedging your position and there is no harm in what you are doing, but you must be very careful if you do decide to date more than one man. Realism is very important and you have to be ultra-fair to everyone involved, otherwise you will certainly end up in a sour position.

You may very well be using your time more efficiently, but if you really are going to date more than one guy you need to ask some very hard questions of yourself. Other people will undoubtedly criticize you and is your skin thick enough to be able to cope with this unconventional position?

You might think that you did not have much spare time before, but if you decide to date more than one man you are really going to be under pressure. As such, you need to be very selective about your candidate. Is each one really a prospect for the potential long-term, or are you just kidding yourself. Only go ahead if both pass this test.

Never engage in sexual relationships with both guys in a situation such as this as it will lead to bad feelings, complicate your true feelings and be generally unfair. Just leave it out.

Because you're likely to run into people who you know, try and avoid going to the same venues with each guy. To a certain extent you are going to have to have different worlds, or be prepared for some awkward encounters.

You have to let all parties know what is going on when you date more than one man as honesty is most definitely your best approach. If you handle this any other way and they find out from a third party, expect fireworks.

You need to be very grounded as you are trying to create a life for yourself ahead. By creating a different persona when you date more than one man, especially if one guy particularly likes a certain characteristic or so, then you might get yourself into such a position that you will end up being totally confused.

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