You don't have to make V-Day plans when you've just started dating, but we believe that there's really no reason not to other than maybe, the difficulty of finding a restaurant that isn't fully booked up if it's too close to the day when you decide where to go. You might be worrying about whether or not your partner is going to think that going out on V-Day means you're taking things to the next level. We're going to look at that later on, so be sure to read on. But the short version is that if there's been a week or so since your last date, and you're due to go out again around Valentine's Day, you should definitely make plans if not on the actual day, then somewhere within one or two days on either side of the calendar. Make light of the timing too. Your partner will surely have a sense of humor about it, and you won't have to stress so much. There's a lot more to consider though, so please join us as Sexsearch examines the question people have been asking every winter for ages. Do you have to make Valentine's Day plans when you just started dating?

If you're due to go out on a date soon, and we haven't convinced you that February 14th is just like any other day in the year, we humbly suggest that you instead make plans to go out on February 15th instead. You can make any excuse you want as the reason you can't go out on the 14th, so long as it's paired with the suggestion that you go out on the 15th instead. Any worry you may have had about your partner being angry at you will be handled by this date, and any worry you have surrounding giving off the impression that you're taking the relationship seriously even though you just started dating will be handled by the fact that you didn't make going out on V-Day your priority. It's a win-win solution. February the 13th will work out just as nicely, but if you want to be smart about it, we suggest you go with the 15th because you'll be able to pick up any card, chocolates, flowers you might want to give your date at deep discount prices. Of course they're worth the SRP, but who doesn't love a good discount?

As we said, you're totally fine to make up an excuse so that you don't have to go out on actual Valentine's Day but if you decide to avoid going out on that night, are you going to have something better to do? Our guess is probably not. You'll ask around to see if any of your friends will want to hang out, but they'll of course be busy, because they'll be out with their partner's celebrating the big day. So you'll have to stay at home alone, when you could instead be out having a great night with the latest object of your affection. Make sure you stay off of social media that night too. You'll be tempted to update your status about having nothing to do while all of your friends are out celebrating a "holiday invented by corporations" but if you do, you know who is most likely going to be sitting at home too, and if they see it, you may as well cancel your dinner reservation for the 15th.

Even though you've only just started dating, the fact that you're wondering about this means that you DO CARE about the feelings of your new partner, so we suggest you just keep things as simple as possible, and treat this date like any other date. Maybe if anything, dress slightly nicer, or go to a slightly nicer restaurant than you usually would. You're still in the early days of courtship, so these are just things you should already be doing. You need to step up your game every now and then, and in the middle of winter, when it's cold outside and people are looking for reasons to brave the weather is as good a time as any to give your partner a good reason to get out and have a good time with you. We sort of understand you being a little tentative about being too romantic on Valentine's Day, but think about the message that it sends if you don't want to go out with them around what's supposed to be the most romantic day of the year. Why do you want to tell this new person in your life (that you seem to be attracted to, and want to go out with more) that you don't want there to be any romance between you? Make the date. Go on it. Have a good time. Don't worry about anything else. It's as simple as that.

Have you had a bad V-Day experience before? What has you spooked? If you've run into this "problem" in the past, then we suggest you avoid going on any dates in January and the first half of February. Save that time for bootie calls to exes that you can still occasionally hit up without worrying about them getting the wrong idea, because they're not interested in anything more then sex either. You'll free yourself of this concern completely in years to come, and you have the rest of the year to find new future exes to spend time with during these cold months.

If your concern is that going out on Valentine's Day is suggesting that you're rushing ahead with your relationship, and your partner may think that you're REALLY into them, we assure you that you can rid yourself of that concern. Your date is not going to think that you're one step closer to asking them to marry you. They're simply going to think that you've enjoyed what little time you have spent together already, and that you think it would be fun (and worthwhile) to go out on the holiday that was created for lovers. We're going to assume that you've perhaps already had sex, or that that's an intention that you have. If you've been out at least a couple times... We aren't steadfast believers in the third date rule, but a nice date on Valentine's Day sure does seem like it could be a logical path to a little action. Wherever you decide to go out, it's going to be full of couples and the air will reek of romance. The romantic mood set by any restaurant on Valentine's Day (though it's not without a surcharge) will significantly reduce a lot of the heavy lifting that you're going to have to do if you put of your next date until V-Day is in the rearview. You won't have to spend hours on the internet trying to find a nice place to impress your partner, because on Valentine's Day, you can bet fairly safely that any restaurant that you choose to go to is going impress your partner because servers are typically working their hardest that night, with the hopes of getting huge tips that are meant to impress the big tipper's dates.

This is the number one reason that you should 100% want to make V-Day plans. Your relationship is new, and still full of fun. You're still getting to know each other, and this is a perfect opportunity to get a better sense of your partner's thoughts on relationships, and their sense of humor. People watching is a great and very common activity for couples on early dates. It allows them to remove any nervousness that they might be feeling about making a good impression, or saying the right thing, and puts both party's attention on other people, and making observations about them. This is a great couple-building activity because it allows you and your partner a chance to try and make each other laugh, while focusing on the same thing or person.

On Valentine's Day, there's sure to be some of the best people watching around. You'll have a lot more fun if your date has a dark sense of humor, and will have a great time making fun of couples who're so obviously bored of each other, but who still dust off the suit and dress that they wear to funerals more than they do on dates anymore, and act like they still love each other as much as they did when they first started dating. It's a little mean-spirited, but this game is all about building a bond between you and your date. All's fair in love and war.

Maybe there's a reason that you're considering staying home on Valentine's Day. Is your dating game severely lacking in the romance department? Are you more of a straightforward, no emotions kind of person? If that's the case, then we would love it if you looked back to when you stopped believing in romance, and became so afraid of Cupid's arrow. He's just a little baby with a bow hat shoots love arrows at people who're in need of a little help with romance. Don't you think that maybe sounds like you? If you haven't been out on a romantic date in a while, it might be a good time to flex your romance muscle a bit. And that's not a euphemism!

If you have no intentions for this relationship to be romantic in nature, then your instinct of not wanting to do anything on V-Day might actually be correct. You'll send a fairly clear message that you're not into romance, and that your dating has been nice thus far, but that it's a casual relationship as far as you're concerned. So while suggesting that romance is dead might seem dramatic, it very well could be currently on hiatus in so far as your dating life goes. If that's the case, that's totally fine. Just be sure to be upfront about it with your partner. They'll appreciate your honesty, and if there was any misconception about your relationship, they'll readjust their expectations, and know that if they want chocolates that come in a heart shaped box, they'll have to buy them for themselves.

Before you started worrying about whether or not you had to make V-Day plans, did you ask your partner if that was something they even wanted to do? Imagine if you worried this much, and then when you finally asked them, they told you that they had other plans already? Or maybe just that they didn't want to deal with the crowds, so suggest that you should just go out the weekend afterwards. No fuss. No muss. All your worrying for nothing. Heck! Maybe they even just suggest that you come over to Netflix and Chill with them instead. Surely that couldn't be something that you'd find objectionable or stressful. Maybe their favorite band is in town, and they have an extra ticket if you want to go. We've seen lots of fantastic concerts on V-Day because a band's tour stops for no holiday. Especially not one created by corporations! Why should your dating life be any different?

We're always so pleasantly surprised by what a little open and stress-free communication between couples can accomplish. You might end up doing nothing this V-Day (which is what you wanted in the first place), or you might end up doing something that in all your fretting, you hadn't even thought of as a low stress option to suggest. Happy Valentine's Day!

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