Hi everybody, welcome to the women's dating and confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're

going to talk about how to cause as little harm as possible while we're dating other people.

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.

The link for that guide is in the show notes.

It's a 10 page guide with exactly what to know about the situation, how to handle it, and the exact text that you can

use when somebody is pulling away or acting flaky in those early stages of dating.

You can also find this free guide in the bio of my Instagram page.

My Instagram is Amber Grubenman.

Okay, so first of all, let me just share why I'm bringing

this up. This is really common in general, the fear of hurting people, and it's often the fear

of hurting people that leads us to really, really fuck people up. So often when we're scared

of hurting somebody, that's when we are the most indirect and the least

honest. And we prolong things that don't need to be prolonged because we're afraid of hurting

that person. So we're going to talk about how to avoid that. And the reason why this came to

my attention recently to make a podcast about

was because one of my clients was feeling super anxious about dating somebody and she was really

worried that she might lead this person on. And what if it turns out that this person likes

her more than she likes them?

And what if she has to break up with them?

And now they're a little bit integrated and it's increasing that anxiety.

So she was really afraid of exploring the connection more because that would mean that

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