Dating at Anime Conventions

[Conreviews]

What do you guys think of dating at cons? is it a good idea or what? whee  

[Extreme Cuddler]

from my personal experience so far it has been not good, lets just say thats how I found out girl creepers exist, but I am sure there are people who have gotten good results out there and I am interested to hear some of those experiences that are out there if anyone would care to share them  

[Conreviews]

YESS cons are where i learned girl creepers exist too! haha gonk  

[Extreme Cuddler]

Conreviews

YESS cons are where i learned girl creepers exist too! haha gonk

but I am sure there are also awesome people there, usually any dating thing that the con might be throwing I use as an opportunity to make friends, I personally have yet to meet that awesome person at a con but yeah its fun to just talk to people  

[Anonu]

my exbff married a man she met at Otakon many years ago. Some relationships turn out well but they just don't look good to anyone else lol

I'm not dating someone FROM a con but I'm taking a date ( my gf ) TO the next Otakon. I think this is her first time at a convention? There is much worry on what to wear but I'm sure she will find something that she loves. I believe this will be a fun and interesting experience for her. ^^  

[angelmage99]

So I have personal experience with this.

My husband and I met outside of con, come to find out his mom is a vender and he goes to cons too about seven months before we hook up. Long story short his mom was okay with Sci-fi/Fantasy and not okay with anime.

Anyways...

Dating at cons can work, but it's important to have a real world relationship and not be upset when someone isn't interested in something you're interested in. On the flip side it is important to have some events in which both of you go and have fun.

I want to also point out that I'm freakishly amused by people watching and that entertainment for me. So even when I wasn't with my now husband that I was enjoying myself.

examples:

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The first costume related event we both went to as a date was Ren Faire. He spent most of his time learning to blacksmith and I ended up spending most of my time getting to know his mom (it was the first time I met her).

We really didn't do anything the first day together other than eat and me watch him learning blacksmithing. The second day we spend some time together. We ended up doing a combat thing and it was fun because I beat him up.

 

[slapthefatcat2]

I love the idea of finding a girlfriend at a con, but I also much prefer properly getting to know someone before going on a date. Also, it's so easy to just flake on someone like that, that I'm not sure if I'd want to go through that.
I also have a habit of assuming all the women I'm interested in are taken. I don't want to try to ask out a girl who has a boyfriend already, and I certainly don't want to be a creep.