#381: Ask Me Anything: A Love, Dating & Relationship Q&A
The Mark Groves Podcast
Mark Groves
4.9 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I got a question from Robin. |
| 0:05.0 | How do I stay open to dating when people say that they want one thing and they want the same thing? |
| 0:11.0 | And then they just ghost. |
| 0:12.0 | I know what it means to do the work and all the things, but how do you stay open and not get burnt out dating? |
| 0:18.0 | Listen, I hear you. |
| 0:20.0 | In a space of dating where it feels like people are not often honest, it really is what we make |
| 0:25.5 | their behaviors about. |
| 0:26.6 | If someone misleads us on what they want and they ghost us, what can often happen is we |
| 0:31.2 | make that mean something about ourselves. |
| 0:32.9 | So the first thing is you got to take charge of the circumstances and make sure that what |
| 0:37.3 | you make ghosting mean isn't anything about you, but actually about their character. |
| 0:42.3 | Because really that's what it is. |
| 0:43.3 | I really would invite that we're actually exploring what green flags and red flags are being able to identify them just in people's profiles. |
| 0:51.3 | If people put minimal effort into their profiles, then they're probably not that interested in putting much effort into anything else. I know that's an assumption, but it's a pretty safe assumption. So how do you stay open? Well, if you can trust that this person ghosting you is actually in service of you, which is not minimizing the pain of someone ghosting, like's the worst behavior it has no integrity but if |
| 1:12.3 | i can actually say okay thank you for filtering out for me like when someone ghosts you it's someone |
| 1:17.3 | who's saving you from a life of mediocrity first off they can't even handle having a conversation |
| 1:22.1 | of closing a relationship like who would want them in your life anyways someone breaking up with you |
| 1:27.0 | for themselves that's amazing you don't have to break up with them in the future, which is what was going to have to happen or they were going to betray you. So might as well get rid of them early. Second part is, look at how you date. For a lot of us, dating apps are actually exhausting. Can we trust that exhaustion? Can we actually sit with that? That that might not be actually aligned for us, that it's not bringing us life. We're not feeling joy in the swipe culture. Like actually get out into the world, put down your phone and start practicing meeting people out in the world. The produce section I hear is a hotspot to meet people, especially over avocados. |
| 2:00.4 | Mark, what do you think we need to do now to ensure a good future for humanity? |
| 2:05.6 | Shit, shit, this is no small question. Hey? What could we do now to save us from all the |
| 2:11.6 | effed up systems and actually free us and liberate us from all the division that's going on. There is actually a way |
| 2:18.6 | through this and it is that we have to deeply get to know ourselves again. We have to get back |
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