Harper’s Top Five Dating Tips

Dating is a big part of your high school social life, and it can be tough, scary, and difficult. Here’s a couple of tips that can help you with your dating life.

1. Be yourself. It’s old advice, but it’s good advice. You want someone who likes you for you. If you always have to hide something or take a certain trait of yours away, you’ll never be really and truly happy. Nobody wants that.
2. Compromise. Compromising is the glue that holds relationships together. You don’t have to be right all of the time, and you’re not going to be. Being right is not worth ending your relationship.
3. Confidence. Be confident! There’s really no reason you shouldn’t be confident with your partner. You should never feel uncomfortable with your partner, because that brings doubt, and doubt will eventually eat away at your relationship.
4. Honesty. Honesty is one of the most important things in a relationship it’s important because it inspires trust in a relationship.
5. Finally, don’t be a jerk. Nobody likes a jerk. Niceness is key. Remember how in elementary school when a boy was chasing a girl or being mean to her, she’d go up to her parents and tell them, and they’ll normally respond with, “It’s probably because he likes you, sweetie.”? Then the little girl responds with, “Well, I don’t like that he’s mean to me, mommy. I don’t like him.” Duh! Of course she doesn’t like that he’s mean. But girls can be mean, too. Your relationship will be so much better if both partners are kind to each other.