Dating Safety: Have you made any of these mistakes?

In today’s day and age, everyone in the dating department must learn more about dating safety because this should be the No. 1 priority for every dater nowadays. Today I’m going to outline the most common mistakes that people make in dating and relationships so that you can avoid these mistakes in the future. You are welcome 😉

Do you keep learning and growing?

The second common mistake is people stop learning and growing after graduation from school or university. They think dating skills can’t be learned.

If you highly value dating safety, you must keep learning and growing. Michael Johnson once said, “Anything that isn’t growing is dying.”

Knowledge is power. Treat every candidate that you date as a textbook and study that person as if your future depends on it because it obviously does! You meet someone special and this candidate is a great conversationalist. Now during the course of the next few weeks, you must cross-examine this candidate if you think dating safety is important.

Let’s have a look at this analogy: Any reputable job checks the background references of their potential employees. Treat your relationship as it is the most sought-after job, and check that candidate’s background carefully. Players won’t give out personal details if they are there to play you. Players want to stay mysterious so that it will be easier to escape when things don’t go as planned.

Remember: when you want to get close, a player will make you feel guilty about interrogating them. So, the player might say something along the lines of, “Don’t worry about the past; let’s focus on what we have right now and think about our future.”

A dater who doesn’t dig for information certainly doesn’t understand dating safety.

I know that being nosey can be annoying; nevertheless, it is better to be annoying than to end up being played. As a matter of fact, a genuine person will go the extra mile without you having to ask; a genuine candidate gives much more than they take from you; a genuine partner’s life should be an open book. At the beginning of a relationship, you have to listen to your brain rather than your heart. Question your date’s motives when it is necessary. If you think you are being played by someone, chances are you have been played already, according to US author G. L. Lambert.

Are you assuming you know what your date thinks?

The third common mistake that people make is assuming they know what their dates think. They assume they know everything about their dates, whereas in reality, they need to talk less and listen more.

Everyone knows something about dating safety but few actually understand it. Most people’s knowledge of dating safety is taken from their limited dating experiences, word of mouth and the media. Unfortunately, these are probably generalized examples that are only based on very superficial observations.