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Does Your Dating Life SUCK? 6 Resolutions To Make For 2017
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Shellie Reneé
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Let’s start this year off by being real. Sometimes dating sucks. It just does. First, you have to decide if you’re going to wait on “randomly” meeting someone, if you're gonna let a family member or friend hook you up or you're going to try an online dating or a matchmaking service.

As if that’s not enough to keep your plate full, then there's the connection factor to consider. If it’s not experiencing the anxiety of meeting someone new, it’s spending time trying to figure out if you like the person as much as you think you do. If you do, then you have to figure out if the feelings are mutual. If you don’t, then you have to figure out how to break things off gently. Ugh.

That’s not to say that dating doesn’t serve a point and purpose. How can you get on the path to your true love any other way? We’re just saying that this year, why not make it when you choose to date with intention.

What does that mean exactly? We’re so glad that you asked.

About Shellie Reneé

Just a woman who digs all things relationships. HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, that is. I've been writing (professionally) for close to 20 years, including having two books published. I'm also a marriage life coach and doula. Sometimes I speak to large audiences or do radio interviews, but usually I'm sitting in my favorite chair, surfin' the 'net and penning stuff that I wish I had read in my early 20s.

Listen, I don't have all the answers, not by a LOOOOONG shot. But whatever I can do to spare folks any heartbreak, bitterness or straight-up drama, I'll devote some keystrokes to doing. 

That's it...in a nutshell. For the most part. Kinda. ;)

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