I can offer my advice on this subject, based on my experiences with situations just like yours. I can tell you how long you should wait before sending a text and what you should include in the message. Hopefully, this advice will help you overcome a potentially awkward situation.

Communication via text message is quite a new phenomenon, as it has only been in practice for ten years or so. It’s taken on quite a position of importance since then.

Back in the days before texting, people usually called their dates a day or two after to let them know that they had an enjoyable time. It’s still perfectly acceptable to call if you like, but many people are using the more convenient text message as a way of breaking into that awkward first conversation after a date.

With a new form of communication comes new etiquette, however, and you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure out the proper way to send a text after a date.

The best advice I can give is to send a short text message within 24 hours of the end of the date. The key is to keep the message short; you can even send it the same night if you’d like.

When sending this text, make it a light-hearted one – try making a joke about something that happened on the date. You don’t even have to mention that you had fun, since your date will know just by the fact that you sent the message.

By sending a message after the date, you’ll be starting a new conversation that can be continued at your leisure. You can also use this text conversation to build up to the next phone call.

Call a day or two later and you’ll find it easier to carry on a conversation since you already have some things to talk about from your text messages.

Don’t get fooled by that though. You should always try to do something impressive to win her over. Keep in mind that impressive doesn’t mean expensive – just taking her to something she hasn’t experienced yet is a great start.

Some people like to meet for drinks while others go for more casual coffee or maybe sitting on a park bench and just talking. Surprisingly, some guys opt to have dinner on a first date, which isn’t necessarily the right move.

There are a few different reasons for this. The most important being the fact that you either don’t know the person at all yet, or know little about them. Having dinner forces you two to talk to each other for an extended period of time, and you’re not going to find that enjoyable if there isn’t much of a connection. Casual first dates don’t put pressure on this, as it may just be fifteen or thirty minutes.

On some occasions, people may think that dinner leads to certain expectations at the end of the night. This of course, can create a rather unpleasant and awkward ending to your first date.

The more relaxed an atmosphere you can have for your first date, the more likely you will have fun. You never know how it will turn out so it is best to make it as relaxed and causal as possible.

Also, taking someone out for dinner is quite costly in comparison to going to a bar or caf, or even sitting in the park. The simple fact is that the first date is about trying to see if you are right for each other, not spending lots or money.

Why bother spending more on dinner if you don’t even know yet if the other person is worth it. You’re also doing him or her a favor if he or she feels uncomfortable and doesn’t want to spend an extended period of time sitting there and hoping to be somewhere else.