Although you matched with each other on an online dating site, the same traditional dating rules apply.
The man should pay for the first date.
It’s critical that you don’t break this traditional rule, thinking that somehow this meeting is different because you met each other on an online dating site.
To this end, he struggles to approach women that he finds attractive, doing everything in his power to unwittingly talk himself out of it.
He tells himself that the pretty girl he regularly sees at the local coffee shop at the corner alone with her favorite latte is too pretty not to already have a boyfriend.
Especially when it is a situation where you have matched with a woman from a dating site and have never previously met her in person.
No matter what impression you have of her based on her profile pictures, you don’t really know who she is or what she is about.
Whatever impression you currently have of her is what she intended based on the pictures she chose to post on her profile on the online dating platform.
Superficiality in human attraction has been around since the advent of human beings.
Many men are quick to blame online dating sites for this superficiality, but these online platforms are merely a reflection of this human tendency.
As human beings, we want to be attracted to whoever it is we are dating.
What sadly occurs on dating platforms is that our human tendency to want to be attracted to who we date and mate with is exaggerated, given the brochure-like effect of said platforms.