DATING
I.
What is Dating and Not Dating?
1.
A game
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2.
Art
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3.
Just about looking for love
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4.
Play (Drama. Action etc)
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5.
About complaining who you’re with
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6.
Selling
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7.
Deal
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8.
Adventure
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II. Ways to Date
1. Intelligent
Dating
-Conscious
Dating/Loving
2. Brainless
Dating
-One Night
Stands
III. Why do we date?
1.
Natural part of growing up
2.
Helps meet in different kinds of people
3.
Introduces you to new social settings and
gives you new experiences
Why
Date? Healthy or Unhealthy Motives?
1.
To be seen socially with the right people
2.
Share social experiences
3.
To make someone else jealous
4.
Use another for the places they can take them
5.
Use another for physical gratification or
date them expecting physical favors.
6.
Go to new places
7.
Try new experiences
8.
Have fun
9.
Meet new poeple
10.
Use another for emotional support to get over
another person
11.
Use another for the presents they can buy
them
IV.
Two Basic Rules of Dating
1. Being happy
with yourself, getting to know yourself and someone else, and enjoying
yourselves individually and together
2. Not about
playing
V. What is
Chemistry/Enegetics?
VI.
Intelligent Dating Guidelines
1.
Do not date too young.
-When
is the best age to start dating?
2.
Date people your own age
–Who
should you date?
3.
Get to know lots of people
4.
Date in groups
5.
Set your own boundaries
6.
Have a plan
VII. Dating
Rights (Do’s and Don’t’s)
1.
Be yourself
-Do feel
confident
-Do not lie.
Be honest about whether you’re interested in seeing the person again
2.
An enjoyable
safe date
-Do not put
yourself in uncomfortable situations such as _______
-Do not ogle
other men and women
3.
Have your
values respected
4.
Care for and
protect your body
-Do not
become intoxicated or make unwanted advances
5.
Establish
and protect your reputation
6.
Be free from
guilt and fear
-Do not bring
up your exes unless you’re having a specific conversatiobn about past
relationship
7.
Say NO
VIII.
Q and A
1.
Who pays?
The gentleman pays unless:
~he is younger
~Dutchtreat
2.
Fastfood chains/Restaurants?
3.
When do you have sex?
~wait until you….
IX. Do’s and Don’ts of Dumping
DO
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DONT
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1.
Take responsibility for your action
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1. Break up over the phone
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2.
Talk about splitting as a mutual
benefit so the rejectee doesn’t feel ________
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2.Break up before an important date
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3.
Be respectful (feelings)
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3. Blame or criticize what he did or did not
do
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4.
Reaffirm that there was something
good between you to reassure the dumpee ______
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4. Frightful
five blow off
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5.
Remind the dumpee of wonderful
aspects of himself/herself
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5. Accept being the
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6.
Point out your resistance
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7.
Be sure about what you’re doing
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8.
Spell out the terms of the
separation clearly
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X. Project
Tasks
1.
How to ask a Lady/Guy for a Date?
2.
The Movie of My Dating Life
a)-Imagine
yourself in the movie of your dating life:
a. What is
happening?
b. Who is
doing what to whom?
c. What is
the genre of your movie? (Ex: drama, R-rated)
b)-Also
imagine what movie your date would picture him or herself in.
a. Do the
movies have similar themes?
b. Does your
date know the role you have cast him in
c. What is
the genre of your movie? (Ex: drama, R-rated)
c) Tell
him/her your story and see if you he/she can play a role in it
a. Do your
plots overlap? If both of you like the scenes in your movies, practice it in
preparation for the actual date on February 2014. If either one of you do not
like the scenes in your movies, talk with each other on how you would like it
to go.
THE MOVIE OF MY DATING LIFE
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Title of the Film:
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Main Characters:
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SUMMARY OF THE PLOT:
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CRITICAL SCENES:
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SCREENPLAY:
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3.
Tasks
1.
Address your date by name frequently
2.
Smile
3.
Look your best (How to look the part)
4.
Give a token gift (do not go overboard and
over anxious to please)
5.
How to walk down the street
6.
How to take the escalator
7.
Start a continuous conversation
8.
How to have dinner date at home
9.
Compliment your date
10.
How to take a lady in a restaurant (Dinner
Date)
a.
How to order in a restaurant
b.
Where and how to let her seat in a dining
table at a restaurant
c.
How to walk in a restaurant
d.
How to leave the restaurant
e.
How to take her coat off
f.
How eat bread/appetizer
g.
How to order and drink wine
h.
How to pay
i.
How to use the utensils
j.
Eating manners
k.
Bathroom breaks
l.
What to order
11.
How to introduce your date to:
a.
A group of your classmates/friends
b.
To your parents
12.
How to pick her up
a.
Getting inside and outside the car
13.
A. How to get tickets in a movie (Movie Date)
b. How to go to your seat in the movie
c.
How to leave the movie house