![]() ![]() ![]() Below are five ways she says people like me - that is, people interested in a relationship, but who dread the dating process - can start to rethink the way we date, or at least, the way we feel about dating. I asked Kara about practical ways to overcome and approach dating stress differently. Through all of that, I had failed to consider the most important question: What do I want out of all of this? I’d drive myself crazy over hypotheticals and the impossibly high expectations of a person I hadn’t even met yet. “I think romantic relationships are the perfect nexus of everything that holds us back in life: social conditioning, patriarchy, family patterns, our desires for human connection, our fears of rejection, and our stories about ourselves and our potential.”Īfter taking a step back from my feelings, I realized that my dating-related anxieties - the stress of keeping someone interested, but seeming fun enough, all while maintaining enough distance to be alluring, for example - put my emotions in the hands of my date. “I work with people who know they ‘should’ feel confident, but secretly worry that the reason they don’t have a partner is that there is something wrong with them,” she tells me. ![]()
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