After 76 first dates, I stopped trying to optimize for love and learned to enjoy the experience of meeting someone new.

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You could spend the hours before a date obsessing over your hair, makeup, or outfit. Or you could channel ...

There’s something that I — as a partnered person, probably annoyingly — like to recommend to friends looking for good first date ideas. And that is this: Choose an activity you’ve been wanting to do ...