Fine – marriage isn’t a deal breaker for me – been there done that. He has come a long way in 9 months – he doesn’t technically live with me, but hes been “staying” with me day in / day out for the last 3 months now. We are for all intensive purposes “playing house”, I dropped the L-word last weekend, and it kinda seemed to freak him out a little, he said “i don’t think i have that emotion”.i wasn’t expecting him to say it back, but he didn’t do a great job “reassuring” me My friends keep telling me “live day to day for right now, stop trying to project whats going to happen, since u can’t predict the future”. He has said from the beginning “actions speak louder than words”and from the things he does for me, i know he cares about me and i feel “loved”hes a prideful man with a huge ego and I don’t think he can verbally express how he feels, since he’s been single for so long.it kinda goes against i think all the self talk he’s told himself for years (I don’t need a woman, I will protect my heartblah blah) Do i just hang in there or what?

This is where stress management can ensure you can handle your nerves, follow through on your goals, and succeed. Utilizing strategies to calm nerves and participate in self-care naturally increases the odds of a date going better, especially if dating tends to feel anxiety-provoking or be something you dread.

When you’re anxious, you tend to interpret a situation as being more negative than it actually is. It might be helpful to ask yourself what the worst case scenario is and what would happen if it came true. Would you be able to survive it? For example, it might be helpful to think, The worst case scenario is that things don’t work out with this person, but if so, I would be able to cope with that because there are other fish in the sea.

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