Dating For Dummies

The fun and easy way® to turn date nights into great nights

Does dating give you butterflies in your stomach? Relax! With Dr. Joy Browne as your guide, you'll find out how to meet potential romantic partners, plan the perfect outing, avoid common missteps, overcome disappointments, date safely, and have the time of your life, whether you're looking for a fun Saturday night date or a happily-ever-after mate.

Praise for Dr. Joy Browne and Dating For Dummies

"Can we talk about Dating For Dummies? It is a must read!"

—Joan Rivers

"Her instincts are good enough to have made her one of radio's best-known psychologists."

—New York Daily News

"Dating For Dummies takes one of the most complicated, anxiety-filled social rituals we have and provides the reader with a handbook for success."

—Jim McCann, President, 1-800-Flowers

Discover how to

• Build your dating confidence

• Deal with dating difficulties

• Get serious — or keep it casual

• Plug into the online dating scene

• Date successfully if you're divorced, widowed, or a senior

Library Journal

While you wouldn't want to be caught dead reading either of these titles on the subway, they offer a study in contrasts. Baber and Spitznagel seem to have set out to produce a humorous look at dating and mating, but they deliver a boorish effort that will confirm a lot of women's worst fears about male dating behavior. While some might think that the "humor book" caveat makes everything okay, the overall Beavis-and-Butthead approach to the subject, which is, less dating and more sex in these authors' minds provides little in the laughs department. Men and women should avoid this book like a blind date with a cold sore, and libraries can pass.

By contrast and in keeping with the excellent For Dummies treatment of complicated subjects, psychologist Browne's book offers a professional, insightful, and very readable examination of dating. Browne covers every aspect of the basic mechanics of dating in the 1990s, from making your own personal inventory to help you discover who you are and what you want, to finding appropriate people to date, to actually conducting dates at various stages of relationship development. Nothing seems to be missed by Browne: she tackles breaking up, sex, and even the darker sides of dating, like rape and stalking. This excellent book's biggest drawback for libraries is its numerous "work form" sections, an invitation to certain patrons to make it their own. But Dating for Dummies is worth the risk; recommended for all public libraries

Dr. Joy Browne has won numerous awards, including back-to-back female “Talk Show Host of the Year”; was nominated for the Marconi award for best talk show host; was named one of USA Today ’s 10 most influential broadcasters; and is a member of Vanity Fair ’s Radio Hall of Fame. She is currently the author of 13 books and counting including Getting Unstuck (Hay House) and Dating Disasters and How to Avoid Them (Hay House). In her spare time she has appeared on everyone’s television show, including her own on CBS and Discovery Health. Dr. Joy enjoys hot air ballooning, yoga, and helping people to improve their lives.

She’s gotten her dating experience on the front lines, by watching, listening, and doing, and she’s always working on a book about relationships.