#134 - New Relationship Anxiety: Your Questions Answered
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Are you on pins and needles, riddled with anxiety about a new relationship? You're not alone. For most of our dating coaching clients, the "dating" part is not that hard. You put a profile together, attend social functions with a smile on your face, and you're going to have opportunities. Going on an actual date or three is not the biggest deal.
What IS the biggest deal, and what our dating coaching clients really struggle with, is how to manage all the anxiety, insecurity, and angst about the unknown that comes with finding someone they really like and who they've started seeing regularly. That's when all the questions come up.
Today, on the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast, I'm tackling some of your new relationship questions in hopes of putting some of that new relationship anxiety to rest. We'll discuss:
- How to manage new relationship anxiety
- The stages of a new relationship
- New relationship questions
- When to bring up topics like dating exclusively, or how you really feel
- Things to look for that indicate red flags and / or compatibility
- When you should move forward dating someone with a history of depression or other issues (and when to fold 'em).
- What to do when someone you like hasn't called or texted in a while, or gives other signals that they might not be that into you
- How to put self-love and self-worth front and center of all new dating relationships
- How to move a new relationship forward without "scaring someone off"
All that, and more, on the podcast.
PS: Resources we discussed on the show: The How Healthy is Your Relationship Quiz, and How to Cultivate Healthy Self-Love
PPS: Do YOU have questions for me? Dating questions, or otherwise? Leave them in the comments: I read every one! :)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | Baby, baby, baby. What's it going to be? |
| 0:21.6 | Baby, baby, baby, is it |
| 0:28.6 | Maybe, is it here, moise in me? Oh, my mind me Oh, Prince, why did you have to leave us? That, anybody doesn't know that, of course, Prince Rogers Nelson, sexiest man to ever walk the face of the earth with the beautiful ones. |
| 1:03.7 | I cannot imagine Prince having any anxiety entering a new relationship. |
| 1:10.1 | But apparently he did, as this song testifies. So |
| 1:13.1 | that's what we're talking about today. And Prince, princes are muse. We are talking about |
| 1:20.5 | new relationships. So we talk a lot about, you know, dating on this show before. But people, as you know, if you're over |
| 1:29.0 | the age of 15 and you've ever had a new relationship blossom, dating is not actually the hard |
| 1:35.2 | part. You know, getting a date, going out on a date, having a first date, having a second |
| 1:39.0 | date. What's really hard is the anxiety that comes when you really like someone new and you've been going out, |
| 1:49.1 | but you kind of don't know where you stand with them. Do they like you? Are they into you? What do |
| 1:54.0 | you do? How do you bring up certain things? What do you not say? Because we don't want to scare them off. |
| 1:59.4 | It's just, it's fraught with so many things. |
| 2:02.7 | And in addition to all of this emotional drama, there are also really big things that you need to be |
| 2:08.4 | thinking about bigger picture. Like, are we compatible? Are there red flags that maybe I'm not seeing |
| 2:15.2 | because I'm so enamored with this person. And how do I really |
| 2:19.7 | turn a dating situation into a really great new relationship? How do I manage the transition? |
| 2:28.8 | So that's what we're talking about today on the show. You know, in addition to doing counseling and life coaching and dating |
| 2:37.5 | coaching and relationship coaching, we work with an awful lot of people on this issue. And so I'm |
| 2:43.4 | going to be giving you advice today that we have shared with hundreds of people in our practice |
| 2:48.5 | that have helped them figure out how to handle this very |
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