Brandsdale
Big Yella
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The comments on this post are enlightening and sad. Chick's talking about getting panic attacks around relationships.
So many damaged people out here. You find a good match that is open to working together on a healthy relationship best to lock them down as what's mostly out here is bad product.
They won’t think you are safe if you tell them at the start you only want something physical.
Why are broke women on the menu?
Honestly that’s part of getting older and being single.Agreed.
I’m not sure, like for example this new one I’m hanging out with, we were talking and she mentions about “how she dreams of meeting someone like me & how when she was younger she wasn’t ready to accept love from someone like me” (she’s older than me, didn’t have the greatest example of a father either) the type that had a list, but then hit a certain age and got rid of the “list”
It just turns me off. Granted again, this is why I should stick to dating younger and avoid older / peer group (30s)
But like I said, I’m not sure what I’m doing besides being stable & having my ish together.

Think you can probably point to social media as a major form of relationship anxiety causes
Few off the top:
-The performative nature of the relationship on social media, the idea that you could start posting pics with a guy for a few weeks or months, and then break up or whatever, and your narrative is now changed/weaker, your identity/brand takes a hit
example: you rant and rave on social media and in person about husbands and kids and family, and only want a husband, and then meet someone, and break up 3 months later, you now look foolish or diminished, like your identity as a traditional woman is in question
I know women who clear out all their social media after a break up, an attempt to cleanse, or delete all the pics of the person, an attempt essentially to save the brand.
there's an inverse for men too, where you rant and rave about a good woman, and then the same thing happens. Your expectations are not met.
-The ever tightening and changing rules around things like cheating
everyone is hyper paranoid and hyper vigilant about not only their girl/boy friends behavior in person, but on half a dozen apps. It raises all these questions: who can tag you? Can you tag people? can you like people's pics? Can you DM people? Can you read your DM's? How many pics should you post?
People are the most rule based and intolerant that I have ever seen in my lifetime, because there's so many new spaces to navigate for them.
I don’t have social media at all. I do have one for my business but my business partner runs that. I can’t even view our post cause I don’t even have IG on my phone.
So I’m somewhat out the loop on this IG/social media shyt. I still get hella bytches and I have no idea or give two fukk what they doing on the internet/social media.
I be feeling so care free being out the loop of all that shyt. I believe all that shyt is for women anyway.
My nikkas do be knocking hella chicks down off IG. I’m in the field with it though
Same as you. Never had any social media, not one app, ever. meet all kinds of women from friend circles, just out, at parties, in the neighborhood. so relieved that I never got into any of that at all. Feels very free and clean. Like I don't want that ugliness on me.
And after reading like now, maybe 6 books about social media,and watching all of it play out over the last 15 years or so, I had some of the same concerns way back when, around 2014 I noticed that you could have to keep changing and reforming your profile, or be kind of obsolete. FB to insta, instagram to Snap, snap to Tik Tok, and also change your approach for each new platform. How much effort and work all that would take.
for sure I could have connected with people more from school or wherever in the past, maybe had some business that missed me, but overall, I am comfortable with that decision.
you never see any women going through their feed while in bed? it gives me a panic attack watching that void.
what kinda questions you asking a woman to vet her as you date her? We've been dating a month and getting to know each other. Feel like still need to vet her tho.
Has anything happened in that month to give you pause? Has she done anything in that month to make you feel you can have some level of trust in her?what kinda questions you asking a woman to vet her as you date her? We've been dating a month and getting to know each other. Feel like still need to vet her tho.