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The Sabrina Zohar Show

158: The Truth About the Slow Burn of Dating

The Sabrina Zohar Show

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Are they genuinely taking things slow or just stringing you along? In this episode, Sabrina Zohar breaks down how to tell the difference between healthy pacing and someone wasting your time. You’ll learn why consistency matters, what science says about early relationship timelines, and the red flags of stagnation. Sabrina also shares personal stories, practical scripts for communicating boundaries, and tools to stop overanalyzing and start trusting yourself. If you’re tired of the "go with the flow" trap, this video gives you clarity and confidence in dating.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello.

0:02.0

Welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohar Show.

0:04.0

My name is Sabrina Zohar, and I am your host. Welcome back to Friday Babies. Today, special episode, another solo, my favorites. We're going to talk about are you going slow? What does it actually look like? Or is this person just not interested in wasting your fucking time? I wanted to expand a little bit more, talk about some more personal stuff, and really give you guys the tools that you need, because we have a lot of stuff and content on there about what going slow looks like, but let's start to really differentiate between the two because it's probably a lot simpler than you might think. And guys, this is the last call. Last call for the next couple of days when if you listen to this beyond it, unfortunately, the shot has been missed, but this is the last call to get the nervous system, the breakup, or the self-love course. Once you join, you have lifetime access, you get the free group coaching every single month. All of that is yours for life, but you won't be able to join beyond August 31st, 2025. That is the last day. We have new things coming out starting next month and beyond. I'm so excited

0:54.7

because in September we have the fall in love. It's a special that we're doing so you get coaching with me in the foundation course. I'm fucking amped. Everything can be found on the website at Sabrina Zohar.com. But I just want to give a last call because it's time for new things, babe. So we're moving on up and I'm excited. So as always, thank you guys for everything. if you need anything, link in show notes.

0:51.9

Please just don't forget, rate review the show,

0:53.5

share it with a friend, and please, please, just leave a comment. up and I'm excited. So as always, thank you guys for everything. If you need anything, link in show

1:10.9

notes, please just don't forget, rate review the show, share it with a friend. And please, please,

1:14.3

just leave a comment, even if it's on YouTube or Spotify, it doesn't really matter. Even if it's a heart, it means the fucking world. Because you guys allowing me to show up as me, then that way I can help you show up as you and we get to create this community that means so much to me.

1:10.6

So without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we?

1:13.5

All right, babes, a million dollar question.

1:15.0

Are they going slow? you and we get to create this community that means so much to me. So without further ado,

1:27.8

let's get right on into it, shall we? All right, babes, a million dollar question. Are they going slow? Are they wasting your fucking time? And it's funny, I pulled all these studies and I wanted to get all this data. And as I was going through it, I started to kind of chuckle because I'm like, I don't really think I needed a lot of data to prove what it is that we already kind of know, but I think we over conflate.

1:25.5

And I have your questions, right?

1:26.5

I've got the audience questions.

1:27.3

We're going to answer everything and we're going to go over it all. And as always, if you guys don't follow Sabrina Zohar, the Sabrina Zohar show on Insta. I do question boxes so you can add in your questions any times for the episodes. So follow along on the socials. But I'm excited to talk about this because I see a lot of people waste their fucking time. And I see a lot of people in the dating world. You know, I see the pendulum really swinging either. People are staying way too long, like way too long to where this person is very clearly not showing up with the ways that you need. They're not making progress. They're not growing and expanding. Or then we have it where it's like walk off with every little

2:18.2

fucking thing. Every minute little moment is just, that's it. I can't handle it. And so I kind of

2:23.5

wanted to talk about a couple of different aspects today. So first let's even jump into some

2:28.4

psychology and aspects here of going slow. And as I've always said, going slow is not an

2:33.2

excuse for bad behavior. And here's the reality too, what I'm talking about isn't just in dating. This is in relationships. This is in life. This is in marriage. This isn't work. This isn't different relationships in your life. Going slow is going to be really important for you because of what going slow and what it allows you to actually do. And so off the bat, going slow isn't an excuse for bad behavior.

2:47.6

Going slow doesn't just mean that this person can, like, text you once a month, or contacts you when it works for them. No, that's just then bullshit. That's not intentional behavior. That's somebody that's kicking the can, right? That's why I hate those. Like, let's go with the flow, babe. It's like, where's the flow going?

2:48.4

Like, where is it going?

2:49.3

Where is the end game?

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