Hi everybody. Welcome to the women's dating and confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today we will be discussing your dating curriculum for the next semester.

So I thought of this term because I was actually thinking of dating mistakes and not like what

dating mistakes people make, but how we deal with them and how people think that they can avoid them by listening to a

podcast like this, which you cannot. And I was also thinking about a comedy show that I went to

recently where there was a comedian who went up and she was a licensed marriage and family counselor.

And she said that people often go up to her and say, well, why are you a marriage counselor?

You've been divorced two times.

And she says, hello, it says experienced marriage counselor.

The first two were internships.

And I really like that, like thinking of your past dating experiences

as internships and just a learning experience and something that prepares you for the real thing.

So let's talk about dating mistakes and your dating curriculum because I was thinking about you and some of you

might be listening to this podcast because you think that you can learn enough or be enough

or improve enough to avoid ever making any sort of mistake in dating, never get rejected and be so perfect that you're

just bulletproof and everybody loves you. And I know you may not be thinking of it that way,

but sometimes when we get rejected or we make a mistake, we do think to ourselves like,

if only I were better, this would have never happened. But the truth is, in a quest to

become more, to grow, part of that process is making mistakes, getting rejected, failure,

discomfort, and all of that comes along with it. So most people, when they want to get from point A to point B, they want to get there without any of

those things. And so you have an expectation of how you want things to go and then things inevitably

don't always go that way. So maybe somebody rejects you or you do something really embarrassing

on a date or something happens

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