Who Should Make The Arrangements And Pay?

Because it’s online dating, it’s very different than your traditional dating scenario where somebody asks somebody out – they make the arrangements – there’s an expectation that they will pay unless it’s discussed ahead of time. This is different. You’ve sort of come to this place together and you’ve been talking or emailing about what you’re going to do, and you’re both giving input.

Most likely both people will come up with the venue and will suggest what they’re going to do and choose it together and make arrangements to get there on their own – that kind of thing. So it’s really a “Dutch” situation. And if you think about the potential for meeting so many people online it’s also much more practical, in that you’re going to be perhaps meeting a lot of new people, and having a lot of these “first dates”.

So the expectation should be that they will split the check and that they will make their own transportation arrangements – that kind of thing. So it’s sort of more like a Dutch thing. They’ve come there to meet each other and to see what they think.