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we're going to be talking about the difference between high standards and high expectations.

I feel like we get too confused.

So when someone tells you to lower your expectations, you think they are telling you to lower

your standards or to settle.

Okay?

And you know, Breeney is queen of not settling, knowing your value,

and adding tax, okay? So I would never tell anyone to lower their standards. However,

there is a big difference between having high standards and high expectations. Guess which one

is wrong. So I talk a lot on my channel about having high standards.

And the reason why I do talk so much about it is because I feel that there are a lot of

women whose standards are not high enough. So I have videos on that already. So I'm not going to

beat a dead horse. However, there are others on the opposite end of the spectrum who have unrealistic

expectations when it comes to relationships and dating. I want to level the playing field today.

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