Please enter your email and we'll send you a new password request code. Please complete your profile to unlock commenting and other important features. Dating may have changed in the last decade, but class never goes out of style. Proper etiquette is to be courteous, kind and respectful, but what's appropriate when it comes to dating in a modern world where traditional roles don't matter as much? Everyone knows you should hold the door open for your date, but how long should you wait to reply to a text?
The hard and fast rules of dating have changed a lot β the old three-day rule of waiting to call is basically considered ghosting now, and the man doesn't always have to pay.
But who should pay on a date? What should you bring to meet your significant other's parents, and should you wait a certain amount of dates to have sex with someone? Narcity reached out to etiquette expert Susy Fossati, the director of Avignon Etiquette, an etiquette consultancy in Toronto, to shine some light on the modern rules of etiquette. How long should you wait to text someone after a date? A person in their bed texting. Tero Vesalainen Dreamstime.
People used to wait three days after a date to call, but nowadays, you have to send your follow-up text a whole lot sooner if you want to come off as interested. Fossati says when you send your post-date text, it all depends on how into the person you actually are and what message you're trying to send β the earlier you send it, the more interested you seem.
If you saw someone in the morning, Fossati says a text by dinner time is appropriate, but if it was a late dinner date sending a text the following day is also appropriate. But regardless, if you were into the date, Fossati says you should still send a follow-up message.
