Hi everybody. Welcome to the Women's Dating Confidence Podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're going to be talking about not knowing ahead of time if this person is right for you.

Before we get into that, I want to share with you my free guide called copy and paste texts

from these pulling away or acting flaky.

The link for that is going to be in the show notes.

And I also wanted to give you a little update on something that I've been working on.

Maybe some of you already saw this on something that I've been working on. Maybe some of you already saw this

on Instagram. I finished the first draft of the book that I will publish. And I'm so excited. So I

finished the whole draft, went through edits in the computer, printed it out, edited every single page by hand with red pen.

And it was really funny because I felt like a teacher.

I was like, this is wrong, this is wrong, you need to change this.

And every single page was marked up with things that I wanted to change.

Now I'm putting all of those things into the computer.

And then I'll have some other people start to edit it and read it over and make sure that

it's really awesome.

So I feel like this is something I've been talking about for a long time.

And it's just hard to work on,

um, like I usually have to wait for an in-between phase, usually when a group starts and there's

like a little phase where we're not quite getting ready for the next group, that kind of thing,

then I have some time. Um, so I'm really excited that I completed that.

And it's still a work in progress. But I just want to give you that update and to let you know to get

excited about when it comes out. It's a very thorough guide to dating. All right. So let's talk about our topic today, which is the thought

I should have known. So this is something that comes up in retrospect when something didn't work out,

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