Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today I want to talk to you about pacing in the early stages of dating.

Now, this episode is based on a listener question, which I will

read to you. And before I get into all of that, there are two things I want to say. First of all,

I have a free guide. It's called copy and paste texts for when he's pulling away or acting flaky,

which is really common in dating. And it's an

eight-page guide which tells you everything you need to know about the different situations where

men do that and how you can respond in an attractive way. And secondly, I just want to take a

moment to really thank you for listening to this podcast and I really appreciate each

and every individual person because if you're listening to this podcast like you're attracted

to what I'm putting out and that makes me think that we would be friends if we met in real

life. So I appreciate that you're joining me every single Tuesday

to talk about this really important part of life, dating and relationships. And if you have any

ideas of how I can improve the podcast or if you have other questions, you would like me to

address on future episodes, please do send me a message

on Instagram and I would love to connect with you there. And let's get into the question for today.

So it's a little bit long, so I'm going to cut out pieces of it, but here's the gist of it.

Honestly, I catch feelings with someone who I'm seeing

way too fast. That goes for friendships and dating. I don't know what else to do unless I just

embrace it. The only other option I can think of is for me to put up walls and that doesn't feel

good. And yes, there's an element of neediness to it. It sucks to type this, but I'm being honest.

So here's the question. When being transparent and really being honest in the moment,

what if I reveal feelings of insecurity about where I stand with the person or my unhealthy,

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