Long hair and bad dating advice

My hair is currently the longest it's ever been in my life.

If I let it hang down my back, it nearly reaches my bra strap.  If I straightened it out, it would definitely reach the strap.

Naturally, I'm thinking about cutting it.  I want a change.  Feel like I need a change.

As I started looking at photos of different curly hair styles, I remembered the last time I cut my hair short several years ago.  Someone told me I'd never get a date again because men don't like short hair.

Ha.  That really didn't stop me.  And it wasn't true.  I went on more dates when my hair was short than I have with my long hair.  Seriously.  Theory debunked.

So that got me thinking about some of the other bad dating advice I've received ...

- Don't let him know how much you know about baseball. It's too intimidating.
- You should always show lots of cleavage or leg on the first date.
- If you don't sleep with him by the third date, he won't stick around.

Those are just some of the highlights.  The list is much longer, but generally focuses on the same theme -- don't be yourself or hold onto any of your standards or you'll always be single.

I thought I'd reach out to the interwebs to find out if any of my friends received poor dating advice.  I'm sharing their tales here but retracting names to protect the innocent.

Snagged from someone else's post about the same subject.

Friend A:  "My mother said, 'You better break it off with her to focus on your studies.' 'Her' is now my wife."

Friend B: "My husband's father said to my husband when he was in college, 'Son, if you want to find a girl you are going to have to lower your standards.'  Glad he didn't."

Friend C: "Tone down the sports stuff."

Friend D: "Someone told me, 'Keep your crazy under the rug until you've been together a while.' I'm not saying you should vomit neuroses on someone on your first date, but why would you want to date someone who doesn't know who you actually are? To quote a cheesy (but true) dating line - Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths."

Friend E: "I was told I shouldn't be honest with my significant other about how I felt about his family and should instead wait until we were married."

Friend F:  "I think the worst is any advice that compares me to a dairy cow and sex to milk."

Wow.  Those are some gems.  At least I'm not the only one getting bad dating advice.

Share with me ... what's the worst relationship advice you've been given?

Also, should I cut my hair or not?