Encourage your ‘third wheel’ to get out there and start socialising

The country’s biggest singles and socialising club, London-based Dinner Dates, is appealing to women, including the Duchess of Cambridge, to do something to help out the ‘third wheels’ in their lives.

For those unfamiliar with the urban dictionary, a ‘third wheel’ is one who stops a couple from socialising together, but who is invited along to events out of pity or a feeling of duty. We all know them and very often, when of the male gender, they are our brothers, cousins, partner’s best mate, or work pals.

In British society, the Diamond Jubilee events and now the Olympics have all led to Prince Harry being dubbed ‘a third wheel’, as he hangs out with Kate and William, without a date of his own on his arm.

Dinner Dates knows all about third wheels, having organised events that help people shrug off this status for the last 23 years. The membership-based club helps these guys and gals find a social circle of their own, perhaps finding someone special, but definitely acquiring a new circle of friends.

Dinner Dates lets third wheels play the numbers game. The more events they get out to, the more likely it is that they will meet someone. Sometimes, it’s through the less direct route, as they meet a new friend at a Dinner Dates event, who then introduces them to someone that they know in another part of their network, who turns out to be more of a special one than even Jose Mourinho!

Dinner Dates’ chief executive, Cynthia Spillman, can vouch for this means of finding a partner, having met her third husband, Peter, through a friend. Prior to that, and way before buying the Dinner Dates business, she was a Dinner Dates member, managing her socialising and knowing it would pay off.

“Third wheels need to work at it”, says Cynthia, “they can easily get too comfortable in the company of a couple and give weight to that old adage that two’s company and three’s a crowd.

“The chances of a suitable new partner just finding them out of the blue are slight. They need to get organised with their socialising and many of them know that. The trouble is that they really need someone to be arranging things on their behalf. That’s where Dinner Dates comes in and rescues all those third wheel workaholics who just don’t have the time, or those that lack the confidence to get out there and fish for a friend”.

Cynthia’s advice to any woman a little tired of having her partner’s third wheel pal hanging on their every word is to encourage them, or even push them towards a Dinner Dates event! There’s a huge number to choose from, from a day at Cowes to clay pigeon shooting and from balls and dinners, to an outing on the British Pullman.

Best news of all is that Dinner Dates will rescue these women by enabling them to offer a free membership to their ‘third wheel’, If they, or the person in question, contacts the office and quotes ‘Third Wheel Offer’. That will save the new member the £199.20 (inc VAT) joining fee, so all they will pay is £11 a month for the events programme and the ticket price of any events they attend … a small price to pay for we-time, whoever you are in the third wheel triangle!

Visit dinnerdates.com to find out more and view the events programme.