For those situations, there are some obvious ways to help yourself know if he deserves a second date. Here are 10 dating red flags that should either send you running or make you proceed with extreme caution. Here they are:
- He tips badly: Bad tippers are often selfish people. He doesn’t have to be the king of all tippers, but less than 15 percent tells me he will be cheap and ungenerous in other ways, too.
- He calls his mom and dad “mommy” and “daddy”: My husband totally does this and maybe it’s a Southern thing, but this is super weird to me.
- He is disrespectful about ex-girlfriends/ex-wives: Every person has an ex who hurt them in some way and every person has baggage left from old relationships. But smart people learn from those relationships and find ways to respect what they learned. Someone who didn’t wouldn’t be great to date.
- He is rude to waiters: Anyone who is rude to wait staff or people in retail stores will eventually be rude to you as well. Watch this one.
- He doesn’t read books: This could be just me. But when I dated a man, I wanted to know what books he read, and if he hadn’t read any recently, that said something to me. Even if they were books I wouldn’t have read (my husband reads science textbooks), I wanted a man who read SOMETHING for pleasure. I was looking for a well-read man who was intellectually curious. To me, this said he wasn’t. Read More
