4. Go for genuine interest, not game play.
People kept saying to me, when they were talking about the early stages of dating the person they ended up with, "I just didn’t have that anxiety I had before. I was never second-guessing if he liked me. Or should I call or did I do the right thing?" It just kept coming up in interview after interview. When I started seeing my husband, I felt like there was a sincerity from which we were both approaching things. I always knew there was going to be a next date. It was something I took seriously because I had heard it over and over again from couples I’d talked to. It was a sign.