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Top tips for Valentines Day

A North East author is offering tongue-tied men the chance to brush up their love letter-writing skills ahead of Valentine’s Day.

Lynn Huggins-Cooper is running a course at Gibside in Northumberland to give people tips on how to tell their significant other “I love you”.

Lynn said a romantic letter would earn more brownie points than a bunch of flowers that would end up in the bin.

Meanwhile, as singletons prepare for what often a lonely time of year, relationship counseling organisation Relate has issued bdaily with some top dating tips to help our unattached readers find love.

Barbara Bloomfield, Relate counselor and author of The Relate Guide to Finding Love, who spent a year researching successful relationships, said:“Valentine’s Day can add to the pressure of dating. However the most important thing is to be yourself and have fun. None of this is rocket science but when you get nervous or worried it can be hard to relax and show yourself at your best. The best mindset for going into a new date is ‘I might make a new friend today.’”

Here are her top tips for dating success:

Try being a little daring (but safe) this Valentine’s Day and ask someone nice out for a cup of coffee.

Don’t stress about finding ‘the one,’ concentrate instead on making new friends, being friendly and curious and improving your social skills.

If you are trying internet dating for the first time, contact and meet several people initially, rather than pinning all your hopes on one contact.

Don’t judge others too quickly. We tend to over-protect ourselves and write off potential dates who are too short, tall, fat or thin but my research suggests that, once you have become more at home with dating, someone who is a ‘No’ now, may become a ‘Yes’ later.

On a first date, talk about your hobbies and life in an up-beat way and never commit the cardinal sin of talking about why your last relationship failed!

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .