Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today I want to talk about the current pandemic and how it might be affecting your dating life and what you can do to continue

to create connections and continue to move forward in your dating and love life. So this might

feel like it's coming out a little bit late to the party. I've already been quarantined for two weeks now. And I mean, I've been just

working from home and going outside just to get groceries or to exercise. But most things are

closed around here right now. And I wanted to make sure that I had some client sessions first

before posting something about this, because I wanted to make sure that I had some client sessions first before posting something about this

because I wanted to see what was going on in my client's lives during the pandemic

and see what specific challenges were coming up.

And it was very different for different people.

And in addition, I also wanted more information

about what was going on and how long it might last. And I didn't really feel like I had all of

the information yet to create a podcast about this. So I want to give you some advice and some

guidance during this time about dating specifically.

This episode is not going to be about health or politics or the economy because that's

just I'm not the best source for information about that. And you should be looking to your

local government to inform you of what to do

in terms of if you're allowed to meet people and that kind of stuff.

So the first point that I want to make is to keep in mind the really big picture, especially

if you have a challenge that is not just like, oh, I got rejected and it hurts today,

but there's a pandemic and it's weeks of challenge and being isolated or not feeling fully free

to do what you want to do or having things that are rearranging or just challenges that are longer than usual,

then you have to zoom out even more. So if this is a challenge that is a month, two months,

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