Second dates can be hard. You’re transitioning from the light, sparkling banter of a first date to deeper stuff. You know you need to be vulnerable to find out if this is a good match for you, but this person is also still basically a stranger. We’re help to help you navigate these tricky waters with deep questions that aren’t too deep. You’ll get to know the person but neither of you will leave the date feeling laid bare. Unless that’s how you want it to go (wink wink).

So we’re still doing this a year later, huh? Nothing is normal and if we continue down the path some of us are on now, nothing will be normal for a long time. With that in mind, we’ve put together some warmer weather date ideas for the ongoing hellscape that is life with Coco.

Welp. This is why we can’t have nice things. In case we thought maybe 2021 would be a year with less chaos and tomfoolery than 2020, we didn’t have to wait long to have that cleared up for us. We really couldn’t make it through one full week, could we. And now there’s mutant COVID coming for us from the UK (thanks for nothing, Prince Charles, you really f-ed it up again!). So we thought it would be a good idea to give you some tips for having a romantic night in, which is the only kind of romantic night any of us are going to be having any time soon.

So there’s good news and there’s bad news. Bad news first: the pandemic is still a thing somehow. But the good news is that due to the pandemic, a lot of us are spending more time outside, where it’s safer, which presents tons of new opportunities to have sex in public places. Here are a few fall-specific ideas to get you started.