Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence Podcast. My name is Amber, and today I want to talk to you about game playing and dating.

Before I get into that, I want to let you know that I have a coaching program

called The Solution to Dating Anxiety. So if you're really struggling with dating anxiety and

it's causing you to mess things up with people that you really like, check out the

link in the show notes for more information. So this episode is actually inspired by a listener review, so let me read

it to you and then we'll talk more about game playing. So Shauna A says, I've come back to dating

after over a decade in a long-term relationship and was having a really hard time with anxiety

and scarcity mindset.

So impressed with how Amber describes difficult situations and how to navigate them with such clarity.

There's a high level of self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and compassionate guidance towards authentic relationships.

So many experts out there recommend manipulative tricks to twist outcomes to suit the agenda of the dater. There isn't any of that here, and it's so refreshing. This podcast has genuinely

helped give me such solid footing for moving forward, not just in dating, but in all

relationships, highly recommended. So thank you so much,

Shauna, for your review. I was really inspired by it, and I mean, I sent it to everybody. I sent it

in my family chat. I was like, oh my gosh, look what somebody wrote. I was really happy to hear

that the podcast impacted you in that way.

And I think it's so important to talk more about the game playing mindset and how that

definitely doesn't serve you in dating. So the reason why it's important to talk about this is because

when you are wanting to create a certain outcome

in dating, like you want to create a really amazing relationship or you just want to have a more

pleasurable, fun, spontaneous dating experience, it's challenging when you go on the internet or you read books and there are all these

game playing tricks and tips that don't feel authentic and it feels like you're not being yourself

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