8 topics to avoid in an online two-way:

Be it online or in a face-to-face date, here are 8 quick and easy-to-do ways (real or imagined) to get the opposite sex running for cover, that is, if that's what you want to do:

1. Whine about your credit card debts.
2. Complain about your super conservative, ultra-strict and overprotective family.
3. Describe explicitly why your ex got scared and broke up with you.
4. Describe in detail all the therapy session hours and the expensive medication you had take to get over your ex.
5. How much your parents want you married with at least 3 kids... ASAP.
6. The person who gave you a restraining order... for stalking.
7. How you depend on horoscopes and self-help books for answers.
8. How you find a sex change liberating.

Use these topics to interpret how your date will say and act toward you.

If you want to get rid of those prospects-turned-sooooooo-bad real quick, by all means use these as your master list. But if you're playing for keeps, print this out seven times, burn them over an open fire and scatter the ashes. Remember, you don't have to be easily discouraged. Execute only when needed!