Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with relationship expert and Founder of Your Relationship Reset, Erica Turner, about attachment styles, and she gave us some incredibly valuable information on how we can ditch our unhealthy attachment styles and reset them to form a more secure one. 

Dating can be daunting and quite overwhelming with all the different apps available today on the market—having to ask the same questions repeatedly, finding a cute fit, and getting all done up for someone who might waste our time. It’s exhausting, and many of us are feeling burnt out because of it. However, it can be fun if we learn how to strategize our dating experience and reframe our mindset around it. 

What do you want out of dating? What type of experiences do you want to have with new people? Here are 3 tips that I’m letting guide my dating strategy that you may find helpful.

For many of us, we’re repeating patterns that we saw modeled to us in childhood and that’s why we don’t know any different. In order to recognize that what you are experiencing is not healthy or normal, you have to acquire some examples of what healthy looks like.

Sometimes known as Hansel and Gretelling, breadcrumbing is a ‘soft’ common dating manipulation style, that seems to have flourished out of the social media and online dating era. It’s giving someone the bare minimum (breadcrumbs): morsels of affections or attention that show a person you like them despite having no intention of pursing a romantic relationship with them.

As we transition from “hot girl summer” to “cuffing season” it’s the time of year where single women start to think about their love life again. Of course you had a great time partying, hanging with the girls and living your best life without a partner. But as the months get colder, it’s only natural to want someone to cuddle up and do cute winter activities with.