Plus you get to know a lot more people.

When I was in high school, I believed it wrong to date more than one guy at a time (as in if I agreed to go on a date with a guy to some event fews away, I wouldn’t accept any other dates with other guys till that event passed), but that was foolish. I still don’t think it wise to be sexually involved with a bunch of people in the same week (or month or even year), but dating doesn’t have to mean mating, and the more people you go out with, the better you learn what characteristics in people suit you versus don’t. I dated over 100 guys during the five years I was in college and graduate school, some for years (obviously while dating other guys, to) and some just once as once was enough to know I didn’t want to spend more time with them. I turned down a bunch of marriage proposals before accepting my husband’s (married 21 years now; together as a couple for over 22 years) and never felt I had to “settle” as some people do thanks to feeling this one person could be the only person willing to marry them. So I say go out with lots of people – it’s fun to get to know people and different people like different activities, so you’ll get to experience a wider range of events by dating lots of people, too!