{"id":35622,"date":"2014-07-30T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=35622"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T11:56:00","slug":"9-people-you-should-date-before-youre-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/9-people-you-should-date-before-youre-30\/","title":{"rendered":"9 people you should date before you\u2019re 30"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some people genuinely enjoy dating, but the unlucky majority know it to be an excruciating, disheartening, marginal-rate-of-success kind of process.<\/article>\n
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The good news is that there\u2019s no real sell-by-date to stop dating, so there\u2019s less pressure to find Mr\u00a0or\u00a0Mrs Right and settle down than there used to be.With this in mind, here are some of the people you should definitely try and\u00a0get out of your system early on, to open you up for new opportunities with nice non-psychopaths\u2026<\/p>\n

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1. The politically dubious (he seemed so nice on his dating profile\u2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not ideal.\u00a0(Picture: Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He hasn\u2019t got swastikas tattooed on his scalp but he\u2019s a man of conviction and says things like \u2018By God\u00a0this country has gone to the dogs\u2019 and \u2018By God those men over there aren\u2019t holding hands are they?? THEY ARE\u2019 and \u2018Can\u2019t we round up all the immigrants and either force them to integrate or deport them?\u2019<\/p>\n

Not one you can bring to dinner parties, or any other social event. Tell him your great-grandmother is Romanian and watch him melt\u00a0away like Putin at a Gay Pride rally.<\/p>\n

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2. The sex addict<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Come to Mummy. (Picture: AP\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The positives are obvious, but the negatives? The exhaustion, darling. Oh and none of your housemates can look you in the eye because your new\u00a0bedfellow\u00a0is LOUD.<\/p>\n

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3. The bad boy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll reach your limit. Fast. (Picture: Mark Venema\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you\u2019re immune to this specimen, all the better. If not, get it out of the way early, like, in your teens.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason you don\u2019t get many women over 30 still whimpering \u2018but I just love a bad boy\u2019 \u2013 most of us have a limit to how much crap we\u2019re prepared to take, and most of us\u00a0hit it by our mid-20s.<\/p>\n

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4. The vacuous \u2018too attractive for her own good\u2019\u00a0girl<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My hobbies include looking at me, and\u2026 looking at me. (Picture: Terri Lee-Shield Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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She never messages you back, looks bored on dates and is generally a bit of an arse. Have pity \u2013 she\u2019s never had to develop the social basics\u00a0thanks to a lifetime of people queuing up to tell her she\u2019s perfect JUST AS SHE IS.<\/p>\n

Worship her beauty for a while, then when she inevitably dumps you for\u00a0number three in this list, find someone you can actually have a proper chat with (as someone really clever once said, beauty and everything else is transitory).<\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0The fitness obsessive<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re lucky he\u2019ll share\u00a0his new kale and wheatgrass smoothie.\u00a0(Picture: csakisti)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Not the \u2018relatively fit but\u00a0won\u2019t say no to a drink\u2019 one. The \u2018sleeps standing up to burn more calories, yaks your head off about protein supplements, regularly asks you to feel his quads\u2019 one.<\/p>\n

Or alternatively, the female fitty: unfeasibly perky yoga and aerobics-obsessed\u00a0lycra enthusiast, wafting wholesome, sweet-smelling sweat from her expensive hair extensions at all times.<\/p>\n

Nice to date for a while but ultimately\u00a0your toxic unfitness will drive them away, or else you\u2019ll get sick of them trying to convert you.<\/p>\n

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6. The irreversibly emotionally damaged<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If he always looks this deranged, he\u2019s probably not a long-termer. (Picture: lukas_zb)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Depending on the level and severity of emotional damage, this one might be a keeper. But if she\/he is still crying over their ex, has clear daddy issues (i.e. sucks her thumb and asks to sit on your lap), or punches holes in the walls to \u2018let off rage\u2019, then get this one over with \u2013 swiftly.<\/p>\n

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7. The hippy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peace, yo.\u00a0(Picture: Matt Cardy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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You\u2019ll fall hard for their\u00a0musty\u00a0dreadlock-swaying, non-conformist, free-loving, smelling-vaguely-of-wet-earth\u00a0ways. Then they\u2019ll dump you for a fellow vegan\u00a0who\u2019s actually read Bob Marley\u2019s biography and you\u2019ll wonder why you ever thought you\u2019d miss the horrifying\u00a0smell of the decomposing matter in their\u00a0homemade indoor composter.<\/p>\n

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8. The angst-ridden hipster<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering\u2026 (Picture: feedough)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He or she alternates between\u00a0artsy cultured posing and hollow-eyed weeping over Nietzsche or Plath (never both).\u00a0Go easy on the poor tortured soul.<\/p>\n

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9. The older man\/woman<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sexy, sophisticated, experienced. It will never work. (Picture: Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Lincoln Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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They\u2019re impossibly self-assured, ooze confidence and seem so much more worldly than people your own age.But two things make this relationship unsustainable:<\/p>\n

1. The vast world-experience chasm between you.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Your friends think it\u2019s cool but sort of creepy, and they find it weird\u00a0hanging out with you as a couple.<\/p>\n

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Source: Metro.co.uk<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some people genuinely enjoy dating, but the unlucky majority know it to be an excruciating, disheartening, marginal-rate-of-success kind of process. The good news is that there\u2019s no real sell-by-date to stop dating, so there\u2019s less pressure to find Mr\u00a0or\u00a0Mrs Right and settle down than there used to be.With this in mind, here are some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":19261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1867,51],"yoast_head":"\n9 people you should date before you\u2019re 30 - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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