Swipe Right Or Left; The Connection Between Online Dating & Your Mental Health

Set Realistic Expectations

Listen, it’s an awesome thing to have expectations and set of standards you not only hold yourself to but your presumed partner. However, the problem with expectations is sometimes they can let you down and distort your view of a potential partner. There is also the issue with two people having very different expectations of one another, such as many women seeking a long-term commitment finding men simply looking for sex, or vice-versa. Although there are men on many of these sites who are genuinely looking for a relationship, many men who are looking for a more casual encounter assume if a woman is online, she must be down for it too (which is not always the case). This can become incredibly stressful for any individual to endure, and might even develop into anxiety when dating, as many women (and men) might feel pressured to do something they are not one-hundred percent comfortable with. Point being, don’t let online dating shatter your expectations or discourage you from finding a genuine connection.

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