The Four Sixes Dating Trend: High Standards Or Avoiding Intimacy?
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🗓️ 28 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A new dating trend is taking over TikTok and before you roll your eyes, dating experts say it’s actually a cry for help. This idea that women will only accept the physically perfect man: six feet, six figures, six pack and six inches, is pure fantasy. And it’s not fantasy versus reality, it’s fantasy versus intimacy and that equals loneliness. It may even be considered a form of self sabotage that feels safe because there’s no one who could meet those requirements. However, dating experts say there are real questions we should all be asking of potential partners, and it has nothing to do with the four sixes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:16.1 | It is Sunday, June 28th. |
| 0:19.1 | And we'll be honest with you. Right before we hit the record button for this episode, |
| 0:24.7 | I said to Robs, this is so stupid. And her response was, yeah, it is. And with that, welcome to this |
| 0:33.0 | episode of Amy and TJ. Look, you bring a lot of dating trends my way and it's fun and I know a lot |
| 0:40.5 | of things are stuff we've been doing forever and they get new labels and all these things. |
| 0:45.3 | But I'm usually on board. |
| 0:47.7 | This is one that at least on its surface robes is ridiculous. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, what's so interesting about this particular dating trend |
| 0:56.2 | is that it is... What? There have been headlines, but they've all had asterisks to them, which I |
| 1:04.8 | think is pretty interesting. It sounds superficial a. F and awful, and that's why we were both rolling our eyes as we were going into this. |
| 1:13.6 | But the asterisk is that this could actually be a cry for help. |
| 1:20.4 | Okay. |
| 1:21.8 | There it is. |
| 1:23.1 | So you're saying that before we are dismissive of it, |
| 1:26.9 | we need to recognize that there might be something going on. |
| 1:31.0 | Yes. |
| 1:31.7 | There's a deeper issue that this thing we need to reckon. |
| 1:36.1 | Okay. |
| 1:36.3 | We're going to explain. |
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