137. 10 Healthy Dating Rules for Women Who Tend to Over-Give

About this episode

This episode provides practical dating rules for women who tend to over-give and struggle with self-identity in relationships.

Send Gemma a message If dating tends to bring up anxiety, self-doubt, people-pleasing, or the urge to lose yourself in someone else, this episode is for you. In this practical episode, I’m speaking directly to women who tend to be very giving, very empathic, and very accommodating in relationships, but who often struggle to stay connected to themselves while dating. If you have a history of subjugation, self-sacrifice, under-entitlement, loose boundaries, or worrying too much about being “too...

People in this episode

Host: Dr Gemma Gladstone

Topics covered

• dating
• relationships
• self-improvement
• boundaries
• anxiety

Keywords

• healthy dating
• women
• over-giving
• self-doubt
• people-pleasing
• boundaries
• empathy

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