Where do you date?

tl;dr - For those of you who have dated in a successful relationship, where did you go?

I was originally going to do this out of personal interest/statistics-related reasons, but it's also not bad as a Dating 101 thread either. An interesting addition is to mention whether the date was pretty casual, or something you'd only do every once in a while. Mentioning whether the date was good or bad isn't bad for red-flag warnings. Needless to say, you don't need to go into great detail about it or what happened every other minute. You can be as specific or vague as you'd like.

Not into anything successful, it was mostly trial and error. My first date with a girl, I took her to my friend's apartment, and while my friends were smoking weed, I was just sitting there drinking beer while having one arm over my date. She was okay with it, in fact, we woke up the next day in my friend's bed (lol), and noticed that my friend passed out on the floor. Regardless, we both walked up hills and stuff when we woke up, and we split off since we had things to do that day. A week or so after, she told me she was getting ready to go to a university and will be living in a dorm. She invited me to hang out with her and her chick friends, all I did was drink booze and played Mario Party on the GC. I forgot which Mario Party game it was though..

Fun times. It never got anywhere, though it could have, but I just didn't feel as much of a connection as I had wanted to. Just have fun, basically. I didn't do anything typical, like going to movies. I think those can be really boring, unless you don't know the other person as well, then maybe. I prefer dining at restaurants (fancy ones), and going out for drinks.

My first date ever, I took her to the only ice skating place in the city and then to the biggest park in the city. It was awesome and I've been with her ever since that day.

In fact, I shared it with a forum I was entertained with at the time:

[...]After finishing her little class, I met her at school. She asked me, "What should we do?", I replied, "I don't know, whatever you wanna do?". Now, I'm not making this up. She quickly said, "Let's go ice skating!", I told her that I've never ice skated in my life, she answered that she has also never done that and so, we went ice skating in a plaza that has an ice skating rink. I bought the tickets to get in, we got skates and then we set off, to skate. I was holding her hand all the time... for balance purposes, except for when she tried to do it on her own. She fell thrice, but nothing serious, shared some laughs and all that happy stuff dreams are made out of.

The evening was still young, so we decided to go to some park (a huge one) just to walk around. After walking around for a while, taking her pictures with a giraffe (which I didn't know they existed in my city), we walked some more while dodging duck poop and ducks. We went near the cage where a lion was supposed to be, but there was nothing (friend later told me that the lion committed suicide). After walking some more, we sat down near a statue on a high hill, looking at the city's main avenue, watching soldiers and cop cars pass by.

It was night now, pretty dark and cold, so we were close together. We kept talking until she kissed me on the lips. Lemme just say that, that's some weird ass pomegranate, but I love it. I need more practice at that, I told her. I also admit to being a dork and laughing after we stopped, while explaining to her that this was new to me, she also laugh. Some more talking, laughing and kissing later, we acknowledged that we are a pair of "locos" (lunatics?) and that our friends will just have to tolerate our constant randomness and goofiness.

Then we went home (each to their respective one, of course) and then I win!

Seriously. BEST. DAY. EVER!!!

My first date with my boyfriend, he took me to the Art Museum. I had never there before and I enjoy art and whatnot. We walked and talked and got to know each other better. After the museum, we went to eat at this cafe that we used to go to when we would study. Even though we'd been there a million times, it was so different that time. Most of our dates were simple and sweet. Going for walks along the nature trail...picnics on the cliffs by the river....or my favorite, spending time together at a cabin by the lake. No TV, just the two of us talking and laughing. We were together for four year and engaged for three of those years.

My first date ever, I took her to the only ice skating place in the city and then to the biggest park in the city. It was awesome and I've been with her ever since that day.

In fact, I shared it with a forum I was entertained with at the time:

Jeez. That's got to be the most amazing first date I've heard heard of that was actually real. Do you do those kinds of things often or just every once in a while?

My first date with my boyfriend, he took me to the Art Museum. I had never there before and I enjoy art and whatnot. We walked and talked and got to know each other better. After the museum, we went to eat at this cafe that we used to go to when we would study. Even though we'd been there a million times, it was so different that time. Most of our dates were simple and sweet. Going for walks along the nature trail...picnics on the cliffs by the river....or my favorite, spending time together at a cabin by the lake. No TV, just the two of us talking and laughing. We were together for four year and engaged for three of those years.

And then?

My first date ever, I took her to the only ice skating place in the city and then to the biggest park in the city. It was awesome and I've been with her ever since that day.

In fact, I shared it with a forum I was entertained with at the time:

Thanks for the story man, gives me a bit more courage to actually ask a girl out to something that's not your typical movie/dinner/bar (and seeing as I'm so shy, not even those actually happen). It sucks that I have such a hard time expressing my feelings and physical contact (hugging, etc).

I showed her my room in the basement.

Been alone ever since.

Date?

Do you mean the plant? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_dactylifera

or those numbers in my Calendar?

It was her birthday actually.. She had never had a boyfriend before and I was the first guy she ever even liked in her life and I honestly felt something amazing with her from the get go. She was in my freshman Spanish class and we hit it off right away... Well I did.

I was outgoing and she was nervous and shy. She of course had been pent up all her life and all she knew was that she Ice Skated and liked Anime, Video Games, Drawing, and movies. She never really had any serious friends because of her parents being derp all the time, even leading to some serious stuff. But I guess I broke her from her shell a little bit and on her birthday we walked around the local plaza by us. Complete with a Target, Subway, Gamestop, Movie Theater, Michael's Arts and Crafts store... All that jazz. We walked around and laughed the whole day. Then it came to goodbye and her friends were there, so I said "Hey let's play hide and go seek." No I don't act like a 6 year old, I had a plan.

I ran and hid and I made sure she was it. She saw me run (which went better than expected) and came after me. She said "I have to go soon you know..."

"Yeah.. I know. Good day though."

"This has been the best day of my life."

Then she just fell into me and relied on my arms to just wrap themselves around her. Then I lifted her head up and gave her her first kiss. And she blushed like mad, tucked her head into me and giggled the cutest freaking giggle ever.

That's when I knew I'd be with her for a long time. Maybe even always...

I was right.

Every week we pretty much have a different date. We'll go see a new movie we like, watch some Anime, have marathons of stuff, draw with each other (for each other), play MapleStory, watch some more movies, walk each others dogs every so often, laugh, live, love.

My life is complete, so... I'm gonna keep going with that, whether or not it's cliche, it works for me. We make it what we want too, and I think that's where the originality lies.

Two years going and strong.

I showed her my room in the basement.

Been alone ever since.

Wow. Who are you guys to warn me for telling the truth and contributing to the thread?

Retarded.

And then?

And then what?

You said you were together for four years and engaged for three. What happened after? I'm just curious.

He got a job offer in another state right after we graduated college. I wanted to stay home and take care of my mother. She had ovarian cancer and I was not about to leave. He offered to stay with me but I didn't want to hold him back. The job offer was amazing and too good to pass up. We tried the long distance thing but it wasn't really working. There were weeks that I didn't even hear from him. About six months later, he called and said he met someone else. It was on the same day as my mothers funeral. I told him that I was happy for him and that I wished him every happiness and I meant it. That was the end of that.

He got a job offer in another state right after we graduated college. I wanted to stay home and take care of my mother. She had ovarian cancer and I was not about to leave. He offered to stay with me but I didn't want to hold him back. The job offer was amazing and too good to pass up. We tried the long distance thing but it wasn't really working. There were weeks that I didn't even hear from him. About six months later, he called and said he met someone else. It was on the same day as my mothers funeral. I told him that I was happy for him and that I wished him every happiness and I meant it. That was the end of that.

Wow. That is the most baw-worthy post I've read here on SP, how tragic. :/ Sorry to hear about that. Yeah, lol.. long- distance never works out unless two people are either extremely strong in willpower (who am I kidding, it's almost impossible), or they're nuts. Never worked for me. Gets really stressful and hectic, and actually, a friend of mine just broke up with her long-distance boyfriend for another guy, and I could understand it from her point of view, eh.

He got a job offer in another state right after we graduated college. I wanted to stay home and take care of my mother. She had ovarian cancer and I was not about to leave. He offered to stay with me but I didn't want to hold him back. The job offer was amazing and too good to pass up. We tried the long distance thing but it wasn't really working. There were weeks that I didn't even hear from him. About six months later, he called and said he met someone else. It was on the same day as my mothers funeral. I told him that I was happy for him and that I wished him every happiness and I meant it. That was the end of that.

You're much stronger than I. I wouldn't of been so kind especially on that day.

My first date with my now fiance consisted of going to his house. He cooked me dinner, we watched movies, sat out by the bonfire drinking. It was nice and simple.

You're much stronger than I. I wouldn't of been so kind especially on that day.

My first date with my now fiance consisted of going to his house. He cooked me dinner, we watched movies, sat out by the bonfire drinking. It was nice and simple.

So happy for you and Dave.

Most of my dates are pretty simple. Just arrange to meet up somewhere and then, if the girl doesn't have a plan, I decide where to go. It can be anywhere, ranging from the usual park hang out to a bar/pub or movies.

Best date of my life was a couple years ago with a girl that didn't last sadly. We went to a "otaku" party (a party at a pub with bands, cosplay, vidyagames tourneys and whatnot), got drunk, and had one hell of a time.

And the most movie-like one was a date I had with a former gf. We went to have some coffee at a cafe, and then we went around the city for a walk holding hands. It was so sweet just because of the scenery... Cold winter day at dawn, and close to each other because of the cold weather... Yeah, now that I remember it seems pretty surreal in my mind.