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How Confident Women Think About Dating and What You Can Learn from Them
How Confident Women Think about Dating and How That Can Help You
Allow me to shatter one of the most common beliefs about how confident women think about dating:
You don’t need confidence and self-esteem to find and sustain love.
This may seem impossible to believe because our culture is constantly telling you that you must fully love yourself before you can love anyone else. If you believe these cultural messages, it’s not your fault. In order to start on the path to a better life, it makes a huge difference if you become aware that you have a choice whether to believe these messages or not.
This toxic myth is just one more on the list of others that crushes souls and causes heartbreak in our culture. Our confused culture tells perfectly normal, sweet, and healthy people who would make great romantic partners that they are not beautiful, wealthy, successful, or “shiny” enough to find love. Do you really think that everyone who finds love is confident, beautiful, wealthy, and successful? Of course not. Look around you. It is simply not true.
Sure, it helps to have a touch of confidence, but it is not a requirement for finding love. Millions of people who lack confidence and don’t meet these other criteria are in loving…