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Dating Dos and Donts: What’s Inside

Dating Dos and Donts is a practical, instant-download guide packed with clear, proven advice you can put to work today.

Some dating mistakes are obvious in hindsight. This book helps you avoid them before they happen.

Dating is one of those things where the lessons are expensive when learned through experience. The wrong move at the wrong moment — too keen too soon, too cool too long, the wrong text after a great date — can close doors that should have been wide open. Most of these mistakes are predictable and preventable.

Dating Dos & Don’ts is a clear, honest guide to the behaviours that help and those that hurt — across every stage of early dating, from the first conversation to the point where things become genuinely serious.

This book is for you if

You keep making the same dating mistakes and want to understand what they are	You want to know what to do and what to avoid across each stage of dating
You’ve had promising situations fall apart without understanding why	You want clear, direct guidance rather than vague principles

This guide doesn’t tell you to ‘just be yourself’ without any guidance on what that means in practice. It gives you the specific behaviours — the dos and the don’ts — that consistently produce better dating outcomes.

What’s inside — 7 chapters

Chapter 1

First impressions: do this, not that

The specific choices that determine whether a first impression opens a door or closes one.

Chapter 2

The first date dos and don’ts

What to do, what to avoid, and why the small details matter more than most people think.

Chapter 3

Texting and messaging etiquette

The unwritten rules of digital communication in early dating — and how breaking them costs people dates they should have had.

Chapter 4

How much to share and when

The balance between being open and oversharing — and how to find it naturally.

Chapter 5

Showing interest without desperation

How to be genuinely interested and let it show in a way that attracts rather than overwhelms.

Chapter 6

The commitment conversation

How to bring up what you want from a relationship — and how not to.

Chapter 7

When to move on

The clear signals that a situation isn’t going anywhere — and how to act on them without prolonged ambiguity.

Product details

Format

PDF — any device

Length

~90 pages

Delivery

Instant download

Access

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What readers are saying

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“Chapter 3 on texting etiquette explained exactly why my last three promising situations fizzled. Changed everything.”

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“This book is the honest friend everyone needs when they’re dating. Direct, useful, no fluff.”

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“Chapter 5 on showing interest without desperation was the balance I’d never managed to find. Found it within a week of reading this.”

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“Really practical. Chapter 1 on first impressions is the thing most dating advice skips over because it’s uncomfortable to be specific. This isn’t.”

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“Chapter 7 on when to move on saved me three months I’d have spent hoping a situation would change. It wasn’t going to.”

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“I gave this to my brother who was repeatedly self-sabotaging on dates. He called it a mirror. He’s been on five successful dates since.”

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“Chapter 6 on the commitment conversation is the thing I’d been needing someone to explain to me for years. Finally makes sense.”

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“Every chapter felt like it was written specifically for a mistake I’d made. Uncomfortable but necessary.”

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A note before you buy: Dating mistakes are universal — this guide covers the most common ones with enough specificity that you’ll recognise yourself in at least a few of them. That recognition is where the change starts.

Explore more in our relationship guides, and see The Gottman Institute for research-based relationship insights.