My young, single clients are fed up. Their tales of dating woes sound completely exhausting. Many come to sessions traumatized after evenings gone wrong, so I try to help them change the negative core beliefs they have adopted about themselves after unsuccessful encounters: I am unlovable. I am unattractive. I don’t deserve to be happy. But many others state that their therapeutic goal is just to figure out how to embrace singledom. And some women tell me they’ve decided to enter a “celibacy era” after being ghosted by one too many guys. As a relationship therapist who views healthy sexual experiences as one of life’s greatest joys, I find this especially cringeworthy.
Full article here : https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202505/the-new-rules-of-dating
