Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence Podcast. My name is Amber, and today I'll be sharing a special episode with you. I had a listener of the podcast come on and share her question about asking for

exclusivity and what to do when somebody says they want to take it slow and how to interpret

somebody saying that they don't want any strings attached while you are in the dating process. So I think this is going to be a very

clarifying episode for you. And it's a question that comes up really often in many different

forms. So it'll be interesting to kind of dive into it with a real question. One thing to know is

that my audio quality for some reason was not very

great in this episode. Probably my microphone wasn't plugged in or connected properly. So her

audio quality is really good and mine is not so good, but you can still make out what I'm

seeing. So I still wanted to share it with you,

even though it's not up to the usual standards. And so before we get into that, I wanted to share

with you my free guide called copy and paste texts for when he's pulling away or acting flaky.

The link to get the guide is in the show notes. All right, let's get started with the episode.

All right.

Well, I think my question really is about boundaries, I guess.

I've worked really hard towards being able to state my boundaries a little bit better in dating.

And I think with the guy that I was seeing, I did pretty good at that.

But sometimes I have trouble with being able to figure out if my boundaries are reasonable, I guess, in a way.

Like, I don't want someone to think that it's unreasonable in a way.

Like, I don't want to, like, say, for example, with exclusivity, like, I don't think

it's necessarily reasonable to ask someone to be exclusive necessarily from the first date.

But I'm trying to figure out like when is it reasonable to ask someone if they'd like to be exclusive with me or that kind of thing,

just to make sure that I'm not going too fast in a relationship and that kind of thing.

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