Anytime there is a long holiday weekend, no matter where you live in the United States or Canada, if you poke around in the local events calendars for your city or region, you will be able to locate at least 1 if not several civic celebrations, public fairs, or street fair celebrations where single men and women can easily meet other singles in person in a very casual manner and flirt.
When you have the time to do a little planning, it will often be more fun for you to go to a Memorial Day celebration with one or two friends. Just make sure the single friend you bring with you is happy with their conversational skills and comfortable talking with strangers.
It’s Memorial Day itself. Today is the day that there are often small celebrations. Typically in the morning is when wreathes are placed in Veterans Cemeteries. By the afternoon, there are some speeches and sometimes historical celebrations complete with relevant and some not so relevant booths and crafts people displaying their wares. Look for street fairs and parades which will naturally draw crowds of people.
If you’re still single and are looking for how to get a boyfriend or get a girlfriend, even if today you do not meet your Soul Mate, getting out, mingling with others and practicing your flirting and conversational skills is always a good habit which increases your attractiveness to others.
You don’t want to be lugging a friend around with you while you’re trying to flirt and make light conversation with the cute guy at the Flags Display booth while your girlfriend is finding some reason to put him down.
Nor do the single guys want to drag along a college buddy who dresses atrociously and still hasn’t learned how to talk to girls yet. They’re your friends and you love them. But today if you want to meet other singles, mingle, and flirt, you might want to leave those particular friends at home and go solo to increase your success with other singles.
Often your best dating tactic to pursue today is just to get out and flirt with at least 3 women. Pick a number small number which is very doable for you, 3 – 5 girls to flirt with is idea. Practice your flirting attraction skill of catching a woman’s eye who is standing more than 5 feet away from you. Perhaps she is in another section of the booth you are at or is at the booth next to where you are. Practice catching her eye and holding her gaze for 3 seconds and smile at her. Give her your best smile. Then wink at her.
Ladies, you can do that, too, and it is a clear indication of interest and attraction. Now that many be all it is. Just a small indication of interest and attraction and nothing more. Just for today, practice it and build up your confidence and don’t even try to approach and exchange phone numbers. That is the next level up of skills.
However, if you’re a single already well-adept at flirting and creating attraction, well then go ahead and approach. Ladies, once you smile and create connecting eye contact, that is your signal to a single guy that you are interested and receptive. I recommend for a time, that you not do the direct physical approach. Magnetize men to you and let them walk over and come up to you if they’re interested in you. You can indicate with your body language one more layer of your attraction and receptivity that you’d welcome his approaching you by from wherever you are standing, opening your body language a little and turning just a bit towards him. So if you are perpendicular to him at another booth, just turn your body position so you are 25 degrees more facing him.
Don’t change it so dramatically that you are now fully facing him. That would be too aggressive. You are testing for will he man up and approach you. You’ve body language signaled your interest and receptively. However, there is still a hurdle he must go over. He does need to walk over and approach you. You’re receptive to him, not a free give away.
Then guys, walk over to her, casually and comfortably and open your mouth. You do not have to be brilliant, but you need to speak to a girl to get things moving.
This Memorial Day, honor our veterans and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. And do leverage the natural drawing of crowds today to practice your body language flirting signals and meet and mingle with other singles.
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Eva Palmer says
May 30, 2011 at 2:38 PMThanks April for all these amazing tips about flirting and body language!
John Moulder says
May 30, 2011 at 3:43 PMNice tips . Our town has just celebrated 150 years , so we had all sorts of events spread over 7 days . Plenty of time to mingle .
Kevin Bettencourt says
May 30, 2011 at 5:40 PMThe intricacies of this dance confound those who don’t practice. Perfect practice makes perfect.
Dewayne Chriswell says
May 30, 2011 at 7:23 PMAs always, more fantastic tips for making the weekend more memorable and productive. Thanks, April.
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May 30, 2011 at 9:20 PMApril, your ideas of how to get a date are always amazing. Thanks for sharing your expert dating advice once again.
Scott Sylvan Bell
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Now go implement!
Clare Delaney says
May 30, 2011 at 10:58 PMI like how you describe in detail the small things you can do, like bringing a suitable friend – brilliant!
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Sonya Lenzo says
May 31, 2011 at 5:46 AMApril, the way you keep saying, “Just get OUT there is such excellent advice. I think most folks who want to meet someone sit at home and mope. The best advice you give is always…”get a move on it!!”
Sonya Lenzo
Michael D Walker says
May 31, 2011 at 12:25 PMGood advice about carefully selecting which friend or friends you choose to take with you when you go out to events. I think we all have horror stories we can remember of how a friend unknowingly wrecked a great opportunity when we were connecting well with someone we just met.
Michael
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