2 Unforgettable Pieces of Dating Advice For My 18-Year-Old Self
I was such an idiot.
As a young man, I always wanted to be “good” at dating.
I thought that if I was a master of attraction and relationships, happiness would be impossible to miss me.
The way that I would get better at dating would be simple: practice.
Looking back, this was just my social anxiety attempting to use competence in romance as a method of escapism, but still, this mindset was a great motivator for learning how to get better at having better social and romantic relationships.
I’m about to be 25 and compared to my 18-year-old self, I feel like I’ve learned millions of dating lessons that could have helped me and saved me a lot of heartbreak and heartache.
The following 2 dating lessons have been more helpful than anything else I’ve learned.
I’m glad I learned them, even if it was the hard way.
Learn to navigate your heaviest emotions.
The stereotypical male-female conflict archetype is that the woman is overcomplicating the thing and the man just wants everything to be simple.
I spend a lot of time in the “bro world”, where men exaggerate this archetype.
