Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today I want to talk to you about some of the top errors that I see when it comes to exclusivity and navigating that

change from dating to being exclusive. Before we get into that, I want to share with you my free

guide called copy and paste texts for when he's pulling away or acting flaky. And I frequently

have clients that I've been working with for months tell me that they still

go back to that free guide because it's so useful in dating.

So the link to access that guide is in the show notes of this podcast.

Also, if you would like my help to go from dating to exclusive and beyond,

I have a coaching program that's all inclusive, has every single tool that you need, and has the

structure for you to follow and to fall back on so that you know what to do in every single dating situation.

So if you'd like to learn more about that, there's going to be a link in the show notes as well.

Okay, so let's talk about the top mistakes that are so common when it comes to the subject of exclusivity.

The first mistake is assuming that you're exclusive based on

behaviors. So maybe you think, well, we're sleeping together, or he introduced me to his mom,

or we went on a vacation together, or we're meeting each other three times a week. And rather than having

a clear agreement with the person, you look for clues in their behavior to ensure that you're exclusive.

And basically what this is and the reason why we do this is not because we really feel secure in that, but because we're

avoiding having an uncomfortable conversation. So we think that maybe we can just skip that part.

It feels kind of awkward. You don't want to bring it up first. So you're just going to try and

slip in there without that conversation and assume that you're

exclusive and set things up to reflect a relationship that would be exclusive instead of just having a

conversation.

Something that I learned early on, and that's just true for all areas of life, is that avoidance equals pain.

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