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Dinner Dates Are the Worst Way to Get to Know Someone. Try This Instead.

Dinner is out, outside is in.

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The walking date is the new dinner date, and I am here for it. I mean, what better way to get to know someone than by moving your body in a stress-free outdoor environment?

Rather than sitting uncomfortably across the table from a stranger and pretending you don’t want to dig into the massive plate of food in front of you, you can get some exercise while casually getting to know someone. That way, if you’re simply not feeling it, you can choose to end the date more easily. No harm, no foul.

Looking for love this summer? Why not give the walking date a shot? Here are four benefits of this low-effort outing.

Walking dates are far more casual than dinner dates, which can sometimes feel like awkward interviews.

“When I first started matchmaking clients in 2014, it didn’t take long for me to realize that formal dinner dates are the surest guarantee to bring up people’s nervous dating habits, preventing them from showing their most authentic selves to their partners on the first date,” says Jaydi Samuels Kuba, CEO of LJMatchmaking and author of Your Last First Date: Secrets from a Hollywood Matchmaker. “For example, when some........

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