3 Date Ideas For When You’re Newly Sober

You don’t always have to meet someone at a bar for drinks.

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Imagine it, you’ve swiped right or — somehow, managed to meet someone in person and there’s date talk. If you’re like me, your first thought, even if you’ve been sober for a while, is to meet at a bar. Everyone meets at a bar right?

While the option of going to a restaurant was always there, going to a bar always felt like the go-to first date. There was no pressure and it was a great way to just sit down and talk to the person. But now you’re sober it can feel like your options are limited.

The reality is that you have so many more options now that a bar is off the table. Here’s just a few options that are way better than just meeting for a drink.

Getting coffee

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Coffee takes what getting a drink at a bar does for a date and makes it even better. You can get coffee at any time, you can walk around with it outside of the establishment, and it’s a nice little pick me up.

I love coffee dates more than I thought I would and I do them for any kind of relationship, even platonic now. It took what I loved about meeting…