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Nicole Kenney

Jun 26, 2021

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I Don’t Have High Standards, I’m Setting Boundaries

Casual hookups have slowly taken the place of dating.

Photo by Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho on Unsplash

One of the biggest pieces of advice I’ve heard in the dating world is if you struggle with dating, your standards need to be lowered. But how can you have high standards when dating barely exists anymore?

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I Don’t Have High Standards, I’m Setting Boundaries

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