A fresh and fun guide to dating from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of He's Just Not That Into You and How to Keep Your Marriage From Sucking. "Jam-packed with straight-talking tips . . . and quite frankly, we can't put it down."— The Sun Why does dating have to be so hard? It doesn't! Stop trying to out-game the system and relax. It's Just a F***ing Date presents the tools, not the rules, for bringing back the art of the date. The ordeals of 21st-century dating, from online dating and hooking up to pulling the plug when it isn't working, will soon be easy to navigate. With tips to define what is and isn't a date, how to get asked out, and setting your own dating standards, dating won't seem old-fashioned, it will be fun. Bestselling authors Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola return to the minefield of modern relationships with this revised and updated edition. Praise for He's Just Not That Into You "No ego-soothing platitudes. No pop psychology. No cute relationship tricks. He's just not that into you."— The Washington Post "Brims with straight talk about the boy-meets-girl game, delivered with hefty doses of humor from the Y chromosome's mouth."— USA Today "A surprisingly fascinating addition to the cultural canon of single, urban life."— Los Angeles Times "Evil genius."— The New York Times Praise for It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken "You will get through this, and you'll do it faster with the help of It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken."— Glamour "Behrendt's frankness—never too harsh—is as winning as ever."— Publishers Weekly "Insightful, been-there-have-the-scars-to-prove-it wisdom."— New York Post