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A Low Risk Dating Strategy
Have you thought about your dating strategy? What’s acceptable and what’s not?
Here are some things for you to consider:
Seek a good match – Look for common interests. Pay attention to how the person acts. Do you find them interesting?
Pay attention to values – People give off clues all the time as to what their values are. A relationship is doomed if the other person shuns your values.
Don’t try to change the other person – Believing you are capable of performing an extreme makeover on another person never works. Sometimes people are so desperate to be in love they try to make you into something you are not.
Don’t change yourself – Don’t be somebody you are not just to get somebody’s love and attention. If you find yourself trying to alter who you are to get someone’s love, that is a problem.
Don’t run from conflict – Expect good communication.
Don’t play games, manipulate, pressure, be phony or use power plays to get what you want.
Ask yourself these questions – Does this relationship feel controlling or nurturing and supportive? If physical touch wasn’t part of the relationship would there be a relationship?
Have a bottom line – You need to have a bottom line for how you expect to be treated. Never tolerate abuse. Expect respect. People will treat you the way you allow them to treat you.
Posted by: Julie on 6/12 at 12:05pm 0 Comments
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