The way I define Dating includes:

• the people i date respect me and my time; we are on the same page about our intentions
• the people who do not respect me or my time nor share the same intentions are NOT dating me back (i might be wasting my time and not respecting myself)

Over the next few months, I am manifesting a Dating practice that includes:

• putting in effort but not doing it all
• being more proactive when i see someone on app that i like and allowing space for rejection
• communicating my needs and my boundaries
• reminding myself that being alone in a relationship is perhaps worse than being alone
• finding the balance between honesty and compassion in communicating incompatibility

Each week, I plan to remind myself with the following affirmations:

1. men who do not show you respect today, will probably not show you respect tomorrow or the day after
2. if i don’t love me, respect me or care for me, i won’t be able to recognize when someone else does

I plan to hold myself accountable by:

• putting a reminder on my phone set to recur weekly to read my weekly affirmations
• looking at this set of affirmations and practice when i am spiraling about a suitor