When single friends want to support each other in dating
You are single friends navigating the exhausting, disappointing world of dating, and you want to support each other through it — to be each other's sounding board, cheerleaders, and honest mirrors as you each search for love. You want your friendship to make the lonely, difficult search for a partner a little less lonely and a little wiser.
Dating is far more bearable, and far wiser, with good friends walking through it alongside you. Be each other's honest mirror, kindly — dating alone, you lose perspective on your own patterns and cannot tell when you are settling or ignoring a red flag, so be each other's honest mirror, naming gently what each cannot see, the loving truth-telling that helps you all see clearly. Hold each other to your own standards — loneliness and attraction tempt you to lower the bar, so remind each other, when tempted to settle, of what you said you wanted and deserved, being keepers of each other's standards against settling. And sustain each other through the disappointments — the fizzles, the rejections, the near-misses wear down hope and self-worth when borne alone, so catch each other after them and keep each other's hope alive and worth remembered through the long search. Be each other's support, so no one faces it alone. What do you most need from each other in this?
What changes unlock by starting
- You are each other's honest mirrors, kindly
- You hold each other to your own standards
- You keep each other from settling out of loneliness
- You sustain each other through the disappointments