Hi everybody, welcome to the Women's Dating and Confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we're going to be talking about romantic perfectionism.

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 is going

to be in the show notes of this episode. Also, if you're interested in joining my coaching program

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as the episode comes out, we are currently enrolling for the coaching program. And if you're listening

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of the coaching program. I also wanted to give a quick update on the progress with the book that

I'm writing. So it's now in the second round of editing with my friend, who is a writer and an

editor, and I'm really excited that she's working on it, and she's giving you really great

feedback and kind of looking at the bigger picture of things. And it's really awesome because

I actually met her years ago, and she really has an understanding of the work

that I do and also me as a person. And so it's really nice to have that personal touch and

perspective as well as her professional perspective. And that in addition to the other, like the first editor was more like grammatical

line by line editing so now we're kind of getting into the bigger picture of the book and making

sure that it's a really amazing book so yeah that's where it is at right now I don't have

a release date yet but we're working on it, and I'm excited to share

more updates with you as they come. Okay, so today's episode is about romantic perfectionism,

and this is inspired by my avoidant friends. So this is a way of thinking that is very common among people who identify more with

the avoidant attachment style. And at the same time, it's something that we probably all identify

with to some extent. And I know that I've also thought this way. And romantic perfectionism

is something that gets in the way of us creating the kind of connections that we want. It gets in the

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