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Dating Advice: 27 Unique Date Ideas

Unique date ideas to consider instead of overdoing the usual dates

By Jeff Cohen Special to Yahoo! Personals Updated: Aug 23, 2008

Planning a great date will score you major relationship points with your partner. The key is to understand your personal style and preferences as well as those of your mate. Here are some unique date ideas to cover a wide range of hobbies, activities, and interests.

Dating for Homebodies

Cook a meal together.
Play a board game and rediscover your childhood.
Watch a full season of your favorite show on DVD for a TV marathon night.

Dating for True Romantics

Create love coupons for foot rubs and back massages and cash them in.

Create love coupons for foot rubs and back massages and cash them in.
Go all out with a traditional candlelight dinner.
Reserve a bed-and-breakfast getaway.

Dating for Adventure Seekers

Spelunking (not the best idea for those afraid of heights).
Whitewater rafting.
Racecar driving school.

Dating for Artistic Types

Take a pottery class.
Paint ceramics together.
Attend an art show.

Dating for Those Who Love to Learn

Take a cooking class and expand your cooking repertoire

Take a cooking class and expand your cooking repertoire as a couple.
Audit a class on your favorite subject from history to art to marketing.
Attend a poetry or book reading.

Dating for Charity Givers

Help with bingo night at the local senior citizens' home.
Volunteer at the hospital.
Take an underprivileged kid to a ballgame or the circus.

Dating for Sports Lovers

Watch a minor league game.
Join a pickup game in the park, from softball to volleyball to ultimate frisbee.
Take scuba diving or golf lessons.

Dating for Travel Buffs

Go for a weekend getaway.
Plan a vacation together.
Get in the car and drive.

Dating for Family Lovers

Double date with the folks.
Play charades.
Plan and cook a big family dinner

Jeff Cohen is the author of "Dating, Inc.," a that shows women a step-by-step plan for finding true love using the same skills that already make them successful at work. Jeff has appeared on CNN, CBS, and Voice of America, and been interviewed by USA Today, Daily News, Denver Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. He earned degrees in marketing from the Wharton School of Business and psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and readily admits taking charge of his love life through a game plan that included 77 blind dates before he found the one.