Dating is hard in this fast-paced age of dating apps, swipes, likes, and matches. For example, it’s now possible to talk to a bunch of matches in one day and to be rejected or ignored by every single one. Before online dating, that amount of rejection wasn’t possible.

It’s OK for dating to be difficult. Anything important and worth doing in life is challenging. However, there’s a difference between a difficult journey toward a desired outcome and an arduous journey that never ends. If you don’t know how to date in a way that leads to a committed, healthy relationship, you could be stuck on a painful journey indefinitely. That is an unnecessary waste of your time.

If you don’t want that to happen, you have to learn to date differently. You know what they say about doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result. That applies to dating and creating healthy relationships, too.

Dating and getting into a relationship isn’t a matter of luck. It’s a matter of skills. The following are dating and relational skills to start implementing so you can ensure you’re doing the right hard work on your journey toward the committed relationship you desire:

Or, you can decide to move on because you have no way of knowing whether the person will ever be ready. Your needs matter, so it’s a reasonable choice to end things if the person you’re seeing can’t give you what you want and need. There’s no wrong choice, as long as you honor your own needs, not just the other person's.

Dating in a way that leads to a relationship involves a lot of shifts in your relationship with yourself, and learning new relational skills. The more you create a healthy relationship with yourself, the more empowered you’ll be on your dating journey, and the easier it will be to find the right person—and end it with the wrong ones as early as possible.

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7 Key Dating Tips if You Want a Committed Relationship

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08.03.2024

Dating is hard in this fast-paced age of dating apps, swipes, likes, and matches. For example, it’s now possible to talk to a bunch of matches in one day and to be rejected or ignored by every single one. Before online dating, that amount of rejection wasn’t possible.

It’s OK for dating to be difficult. Anything important and worth doing in life is challenging. However, there’s a difference between a difficult journey toward a desired........

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