Take Control of Your Dates - Use Date Check!

As someone currently active on the dating arena, I often scan publications for new articles that spill the latest dating tips and solutions to dating problems. Most of the time though, it seems they have nothing new to report - there can only be so many new aspects to the age-old human activity of selecting a love partner.

The last article I read was somewhat refreshing, veering a bit off the beaten path. It still offered all the usual do's and don'ts, yet towards the end it listed not-so-typical safety tips. This piece urged both men and women not to take personal safety lightly. Some suggestions were pretty familiar: keep a charged cell phone with you, make sure someone knows where you are and with whom, don't give out personal contact information on a first date, only meet in busy public places and never let anyone coerce you into anything that feels uncomfortable. You know the drill. Yet, even this article didn't quite get into more sure-fire ways to remain safe when it comes to blind dating. That's why I am here to tell you to use date check.

The most effective way of taking precaution well in advance of meeting someone face to face may make all the difference between a pleasant experience and life-threatening disaster. Yes, using date check will tell you early on whether you even want to meet this person in the first place. All you need is a full name and state of residence, or a phone number, to find out whether the man who sounded so sweet on the phone just happens to have a criminal history report that is a mile long.

If you run a date background check, the safety precaution advice given in the aforementioned article becomes pretty obsolete. Oh sure, it won't hurt to still do all the things they urge us to do just in case, but by the time you decide to meet the man whose date check results are clean as a whistle, you already trust him, well in advance. And that is the key factor that can make or break your date and possible future relationship.