Contradictory Dating Advice (Men & Women), Fake Dating Tropes, Bad Dating Advice
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Worst Dating Advice Cliches, Fake Dating Tropes
If you read forums, advice columns or talk to friends, you will get a lot of advice, much of it is bad. Anyone who speaks in absolute terms is usually someone you should not listen to for dating advice.
Dating advice requires a lot of context, nuance, and insight about people, situations, experiences and effort.
People these days are impatient and want nuggets of advice they can quickly digest and implement but dating doesn’t work that way for most people. You have do understand that variables like individual choice, timing, delivery and ability to read people matter quite a bit.
If you apply rules across the board or use heuristics to eliminate people from your dating pool prematurely, you are bound to make false assumptions and bad decisions along the way.
Bad Dating Advice For Women, Men, Contradictory Dating Advice
Whenever you get advice from echo chambers: Facebook groups, Reddit forums, friends or social media trends, you are bound to become more frustrated, jaded and misinformed about what good dating advice looks like.
I often get stopped in public about advice from restaurants, dating, life choices, and more. Unless I have a long conversation with someone, it’s impossible to give good advice based on a small set of information.
This is why all my advice comes in long-form writing or one-on-one coaching. Any dating coach delivering advice like 3 ways to meet women, 3 red flags to avoid in men etc. is likely looking to get your attention on social media rather than provide deep, profound advice that can be applied to most scenarios.
Bad dating etiquette is spurred by people seeking quick, broad dating tips. Below are some common pieces of dating advice that people receive and how to decipher intention, nuance, and exceptions to the rule.
Below is my attempt to decipher dating advice circulated on the internet/social media, amongst friends/dating coaches and anonymous voices on forums.
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