@Mysterious charmer @yiikbert 🫶🏿:niggablushhearts: @grips tough to give good, actionable advice to someone I don’t know very well. My approach was online dating and prayers for St. Raphael’s intercession. People like to criticise it (and some of those criticisms are valid), but using CatholicMatch helped because it made it easy to filter for people who were already on the same page as me as far as religious views and relationship goals (marriage, not just casual dates).

Beyond that, I only have generic advice. Cafés made for good first date spots, then places where there was something to do (so less chance of awkward silences) while still allowing for conversation. I took dates to local festivals or museums, or walks around local parks, for instance.