A Memoir
Date 96
A True Story of One Hundred Dates,
No Apps and Finding Love on Purpose
Anya Duggan
A Memoir / Relationships
Date 96
A True Story of One Hundred Dates, No Apps and Finding Love on Purpose
Anya Duggan was intentional about everything. Her career, her finances, her fitness. Everything except the one thing she wanted most. So she stopped leaving love to chance and made a plan. One hundred dates in a year, all offline, no apps.
There were eight hour first dates and thirty minute ones, kind strangers, ghosts, almosts, and of course a spreadsheet. Then a friend rang with the famous line. I have someone I think you should meet. She nearly said no. He was Date 96. He became her husband.
Part memoir, part method, Date 96 shares the Intentional Dating Blueprint that made the year work. It is for anyone who is excellent at work and still a beginner in love.
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“I have someone I think you should meet.”
The phone call that changed everything. Date 96 is the true story of what came before it — the preparation, the risk, and the decision to take love as seriously as the rest of life.
Inside the book
Twenty two chapters, four stages
From honest readiness work to the day the phone rang, the book moves through the same four stages the coaching program follows.
Part One
Prepare
- Are You Actually Ready?
- Becoming the Partner You Want to Meet
- Your Unfair Advantage
- Standards, Not Fantasies
Part Two
Expand and Signal
- Serendipity Needs a Spine
- Actually, I Know Someone
- Meet Cutes on Purpose
Part Three
Engage and Discern
- My Year of One Hundred Dates
- How to Text Without Losing the Plot
- First Dates That Actually Tell You Something
- Building or Bowing Out
- Green, Amber, Red
- Your Rules, Your Terms
- Letting Yourself Be Known
- When It Starts to Look Like a Relationship
- Ghosts, Almosts and Other Bruises
- When Your Body Remembers
- Dating With a Big Life
Part Four
Decide and Build
- Date 96
- What the Years Teach
- If You Don't... Yet
- The Intentional Dating Blueprint
A note before we begin
Honest about what this is
“I am a coach and a professional woman. I am not a therapist or a psychologist. Everything in this book comes from lived experience, close observation, wide reading and a great deal of practical experimentation.”
“Everything else in these pages I offer as one woman who decided to take her own love life as seriously as she took her career. My hope is that it saves you some of the time, and some of the heartache, that I spent working it out for myself.”
This is a work of memoir. Some names and identifying details have been changed. The lessons are untouched. The disguises are kind.
From readers of Date 96
What readers say
“Was sceptical but what a great read. Loved every moment of it.”
“Dating is hard these days. Date 96 is well written and thoughtful at each step of Anya's dating experiment framework. I am working on applying it now.”
“This one should be on the New York Best Seller List / Top 50 reads. A must for every single girl out there!”