Dating By Blaine Safety Tips

Last Updated August 3, 2025

Safety Tips Overview

Your safety is our priority. We want you to feel comfortable and safe on both dates arranged by your Dating By Blaine matchmaker, and on any dates you may go on unrelated to Dating By Blaine matchmaking!

Keep these best practices in mind when dating, and contact your Matchmaker (or immediately call 911 in emergency situations) if you have concerns or questions regarding your safety.

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General Principles

Be Kind And Respectful

  • Remember the golden rule: treat your matches as you would want them to treat you.
  • If you don't want to communicate with a match further, please be direct, honest, and polite.

Move At An Appropriate Pace

  • To build a fulfilling, long-term relationship, proceed at a pace that feels appropriate for you.
  • If you feel rushed by your match, it is ALWAYS your right to slow things down, or leave.

Safety First

  • We would never help you arrange a date if we thought doing so would create any risk to your safety!
  • Still, please trust your instincts and judgment, and never hesitate to leave a date (or cut off communication with a match) if you feel uncomfortable — and please alert us ASAP in this unlikely event!

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Making Your Dates Safe and Successful

First dates are exciting, but be mindful of these guidelines to help you stay safe at all times.

  • As you're first becoming acquainted, meet dates in public, well-populated places. Don't meet in remote or private locations (e.g. your date's home). If you feel pressure to move to a remote or private location and you feel uncomfortable, end the date, and leave immediately.
  • Tell one or more friends or family members about your plans with matches (i.e. where you are going, who you will be with, and when you will return) beforehand. Arrange to check in with your friends or family members after each of the first few dates.
  • If your match offers to pick you up before a date, they are most likely trying to be chivalrous. However, if that makes you feel uncomfortable, absolutely meet your match at the date location instead. We generally don't recommend letting anyone pick you up for a first date.
  • Keep your cell phone charged, and on your person, at all times.
  • Consuming alcohol or drugs can impede your judgment, and potentially put you in danger. We don't recommend consuming alcohol or drugs before (or during) early dates with a match accordingly.
  • Make backup plans in case your dates don't go as expected, so you can easily leave early if you feel uncomfortable.
  • Alert nearby staff (or anyone around you) if you ever feel uncomfortable on a date, and contact 911 immediately in the unlikely event of an emergency.

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Protect Your Personal Information

  • Never share sensitive personal information (e.g. social security numbers, credit card number or bank information) with a match regardless of their reasons for claiming to need such information.
  • Never share your home or work address with someone you haven't met in person, and may not completely trust.
  • Please report any matches who violate these Safety Tips to blaine@datingbyblaine.com. Violations include:
    • Acting inappropriately in person, or virtually
    • Sending offensive communications
    • Asking you for money/donations

Health & Safety

Dating By Blaine encourages our customers to create and develop healthy relationships. Sexual health and safety are important in particular. Please consider:

  • Using protection. When used correctly and consistently, protections like condoms can reduce the risk of contracting or passing on sexually transmitted infections (STI). Note that it's possible to get certain STIs, e.g. herpes or HPV, from contact with your partner's skin even when using a condom.
  • We encourage you to lead a conversation with your partner regarding sexual activities before engaging in any. Smart questions to ask a new sexual partner include recency of STI testing, for example.
  • If you have STIs, please disclose as much, and seek treatment before engaging in sexual activity!
  • Not all STIs show symptoms, so please undergo regular testing to know your STI status if you're engaging in sexual activity.

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For Further Help, Support, or Advice...

God forbid, if you ever encounter any type of emergency, immediately call 911.

Examples of emergencies include (but are not limited to) if you feel your health or anyone else's safety or health is in jeopardy, and/or dealing with abuse (or threats of abuse) whether verbal or physical.

If you need help, support, or advice related to physical or sexual violence, please take advantage of these 24-hour hotlines: