Dating Dave | Auckland Based Dating Coach

The Problem With “Keeping Your Options Open”

May 13, 2026

One of the most common phrases in modern dating culture is “I’m just keeping my options open.” On the surface, it sounds practical, logical, and emotionally sensible. People are encouraged not to become emotionally invested too quickly, not to place all their hopes into one person too early, [...]

Why Authenticity Is Becoming Attractive Again

May 13, 2026

For a long time, modern dating culture seemed to reward performance more than authenticity. People carefully curated photos, filtered personalities, rehearsed messages, emotionally detached behaviour, and highly polished online identities designed to appear attractive, confident, successful, and [...]

Why Men and Women Are Struggling to Connect Emotionally

May 13, 2026

One of the saddest realities of modern dating is that many men and women genuinely want love, connection, companionship, and emotional closeness, yet increasingly seem unable to emotionally reach each other properly. There is no shortage of attraction, messaging, flirting, or dating opportunities [...]

Why Emotional Availability Is Becoming Rare

May 13, 2026

One of the biggest problems quietly affecting modern dating is that genuinely emotionally available people are becoming harder to find. Many singles are still meeting people, dating, messaging, flirting, and forming initial connections, but far fewer people seem emotionally capable of sustaining [...]

The Loneliness Epidemic Nobody Talks About in Dating

May 13, 2026

One of the strangest contradictions in modern life is that people have never been more connected technologically, yet so many feel profoundly lonely emotionally. Dating apps, social media, instant messaging, video calls, and constant online interaction were all supposed to make connection easier. [...]

Why Confidence Is More Attractive Than Looks

May 13, 2026

One of the biggest misconceptions in modern dating is the idea that physical appearance is the main thing determining romantic success. A lot of people quietly believe that if they were slightly taller, younger, fitter, wealthier, prettier, or more conventionally attractive, their dating life would [...]

What Western Men Should Understand About Dating Thai Women

May 13, 2026

ne thing I’ve noticed over the years, both through personal experience and through conversations with other men navigating international relationships, is that many Western men approach dating Thai women without fully understanding the cultural framework those relationships often sit inside. As a [...]

Dating Emotionally Unavailable People Never Ends Well

May 13, 2026

One of the hardest lessons many people eventually learn in dating is that attraction alone is not enough to build a healthy relationship. You can feel intense chemistry with somebody, enjoy amazing conversations, share physical attraction, laugh together effortlessly, and still end up emotionally [...]

Why Situationships Leave People Emotionally Drained

May 13, 2026

One of the biggest reasons modern dating feels emotionally exhausting for so many people is the rise of the situationship. Almost everybody dating today seems to have experienced one at some stage. It usually begins with strong chemistry, constant communication, emotional intimacy, attraction, [...]

The Real Reason People Ghost Instead of Communicating

May 13, 2026

One of the most frustrating parts of modern dating is not necessarily rejection itself, but the complete lack of communication that often comes with it. More and more people are experiencing situations where somebody seems emotionally interested, messages consistently, spends time with them, [...]

Why Modern Dating Feels So Emotionally Exhausting

May 13, 2026

Modern dating has become emotionally exhausting for a lot of people, and the interesting thing is that most singles already know it. You hear it constantly in conversations now. People say they are tired of mixed signals, tired of dating apps, tired of ghosting, tired of emotionally investing only [...]

Why Confidence Beats Looks Every Time (But Most Men Get It Wrong)

April 27, 2026

If you listen to enough conversations about dating, you’ll hear the same assumption come up again and again: looks are everything. Height, jawline, physique, style—it’s easy to believe that these are the deciding factors in attraction. And to be fair, physical appearance does play a role. It [...]

The First 10 Minutes of a Date: What She’s Really Looking For

April 27, 2026

Most people walk into a first date thinking about what they’re going to say. They rehearse stories, think about questions, and quietly hope they come across well. That’s understandable. You want to make a good impression, and you don’t want things to feel awkward. But what often gets missed [...]

What Women Really Mean When They Say “I Need Space”

April 27, 2026

Few phrases in dating create as much uncertainty as “I need space.” It can land softly, almost gently, but the impact is anything but. Your mind starts racing. Is this temporary? Is it the beginning of the end? Did I do something wrong? And because the phrase is so open-ended, it’s easy to [...]

Why You Keep Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Women

April 27, 2026

It can start to feel like a pattern you didn’t sign up for. You meet someone, there’s chemistry, the connection builds, and just when it feels like it could turn into something real, it stalls. She becomes distant, inconsistent, or unclear about what she wants. You try to understand it, maybe [...]

1 2 3 … 85 »