First dates cure loneliness because they make you want to be alone.

Every successful relationship started with a great first date. Ask any couple who are happily in love and they will probably bore you with a story about that initial dinner and movie. For some, the first date is a social event fraught with positive opportunity. But for most, it's a hurdle doused in gasoline and set ablaze that must be jumped in order to find a significant other who will put up with you.

The grim fact is this: if you screw up that first date, you're probably going to die alone. Which is why we've compiled this list of first date mistakes. These first date mess-ups aren't just dealbreakers — they're deal-destroying-weapons-of-mass-destruction. If you commit any of these mistakes, your date is dead, no questions ask. Don't get angry at that, it's just the law of the jungle of love.

Don't make any of these 10 dumb first date mistakes and who knows, maybe one day, you'll become one-half of one of those couples who is always telling the boring story about how wonderful and romantic it was when they first met. YAWN.