When men and women are really looking to settle down and find that special someone they want to get serious with, they will always want honesty. Being open and honest about everything is what's going to make any good relationship last and even get stronger with time but on a first date or in the first few weeks of a relationship how open should you be?



As no-one would want to hear about someone being in love with their ex partner still and how their whole life fell apart when they left and how they are going for custody of the kids on a first date, a little bit of common sense is required. Never talk about your ex on a first date and if you are tempted to, you are obviously not ready to date, so go and get a hobby instead.



Be ready for a date: don't be bullied into meeting up with a friend of a friend if you're not interested in trying to find someone. It will waste your time and theirs and potentially if you had waited a few months it could have been the right person and the right time.



Be Open: giving someone the idea but not necessarily the details. I believe this is the key to balancing honesty with having space for a bit of romance.



Things you must be honest about are things like your name, age, job, where you live and with whom. People don't want to find out after a few weeks that your fundamentals aren't true, that the things they've told other people about you aren't quite the truth. This will jeopardise any relationship and might even stop it before it starts. If someone can't accept these basic things about you then they really aren't right for you anyway.



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