Getting to know romantic partners doesn’t have to be taken so personally
A significant factor in why people struggle with disappointment about dating and new relationships is mistakenly believing, on some level, that the aim of dating is to impress the person into being who we want them to be. Yes, that would be people-pleasing....
The stress and anxiety of figuring out the ‘etiquette’ of who pays for dates
How someone interacts with money on dates can prove to be a deal-breaker. Despite expanding relationships beyond the outdated notion that male-female relationships are ‘the norm’, the mental stumbling block of who pays on dates persists. A legacy of what...You can keep your options open while dating, but know your ‘why’
If you have several exes (or prospective partners) lingering, you may reason that your dating pool investment has the potential to be rewarded if one finally coughs up a relationship. The idea is that you’re spreading and limiting your risk by not cutting anyone...Explaining boundary issues to a date will only violate you further
Nobody knows what your boundaries are until you convey them through your actions.So many people have asked me variations of “I’ve been on a few dates with someone and I really like them, but they’ve busted my boundaries a few times. What should I say...Gambler’s Fallacy and Romantic Relationships
There’s something called Gambler’s Fallacy. It’s where we think that if we’ve experienced, for example, a lot of something, that the odds of that happening in future is much lower. And vice versa. It’s connected to the misconception that...
