First, let’s get rid of the idea that playing the field is a miserable, self-defeating experience. For some, dating a thousand people before landing on that mythic one sounds nightmarish. For others, it’s pretty freaking awesome. Kissing a lot of frogs is only grim if you’re doing so in a bid to pair off for eternity. Sometimes it’s just nice to, as a friend calls it, “Frankendate” a circle of lovers without fretting that any one of them will complete you as a human being.