(Matt Monday): My Honest Advice to Someone Scared Of Dating Again
Love Life with Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maybe this will sound familiar: After a few bad dating experiences, you say to yourself, “My life is pretty awesome as it is, so why do I even want someone else disturbing my peace?”
The thought of not having to deal with the dating process may feel like a huge relief in that moment . . . but what actually happens when you decide not to put yourself out there anymore (when deep down, you still want to find love)?
In today’s episode, I share 5 ways you can get back into dating that won’t lead to burnout. You’ll see how to maintain your peace while also giving yourself permission to take small (or even big) swings in love.
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| 0:00.0 | We go into a flurry of activity in our love lives to try to find love and after three months we burn out and throw in the towel and say never again. Oh, One of you wrote under one of my most recent videos. Who's here watching Matthews dating tips and not |
| 0:36.1 | dating at all? That was from Cook with Yu Yu 24. That was the most liked comment on the video with 546 likes at the time of making this video and 63 replies |
| 0:49.4 | Many of them concurring with Cook with Yu-U's comment about watching the videos and |
| 0:55.7 | dare I say loving them. |
| 0:57.2 | She didn't add that detail, but I'm going to assume that that's what she meant, but not |
| 1:02.2 | out there dating. I wanted to talk about this. I have heard it said many times by people. They feel like actually going out there and dating is going to mess up their peace in some way. |
| 1:16.0 | That they have found this nice, cozy, comfortable way of living. |
| 1:22.0 | They have found their equilibrium between their work, their hobbies, |
| 1:26.8 | their friends, the things they're doing, and the idea of inviting in the wild west of dating where anything can happen, any |
| 1:38.2 | flake player, user, manipulator can come through the door and ruin that piece is a naphma and it might not just be someone who's got bad intentions. |
| 1:52.0 | Sometimes it could be someone who's got good intentions, but then they decide they don't like us back or they |
| 1:57.8 | just don't text us back for a day and our life as we knew it. All of the peaceful, serene calm that we had found gives way to this agonizing, |
| 2:10.0 | obsessing, churning, gut-wrenching anxiety of why aren't they texting me back? |
| 2:16.8 | Who wants to sign up for that? |
| 2:18.7 | I get it. |
| 2:20.2 | I get it. |
| 2:21.2 | Far easier to stay under the blankets in our bed and just live life and go |
| 2:26.7 | screw all of you people that I could be attracted to. I don't need you in my life. I'm fine. But here's the problem. The very watching of these videos, |
| 2:37.1 | assuming you don't just like the sound of my voice or the way that I say things, |
| 2:41.6 | for many of you, the deeper desire in watching these videos |
| 2:45.0 | is because you would like to find love. |
| 2:49.0 | You would like that companionship in your life. |
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