Love Life with Matthew Hussey - (Rewind): 5 Shortcuts to Finding Love (Even if You Hate Dating)

Episode Date: March 29, 2024

Dating fatigue is real. Given the option, I think most people would choose to bypass the process entirely and skip directly to being in a meaningful relationship. But since science isn’t quite there yet, how can you manage your energy so the dating process—the part you need in order to FIND that relationship—doesn’t burn you out before you even GET to the good stuff? In today’s video, I share 5 tips that will help you find an energy-replenishing relationship rather than an energy-depleting one. You’ll learn how to:   • Ease into getting to know someone rather than pinning all your hopes and dreams on them. • Communicate from a place of strength rather than insecurity. • Match your investment and energy to the stage of the relationship you’re actually in. You’ll want to bookmark this video and rewatch it before any date.   ►► Pre-Order My New Book, "Love Life" at → http://www.LoveLifeBook.com ►► Conquer Your Dating Fears and Reinvent Your Approach to Finding Love Again. Watch the Replay of my Event, The Love Life Reset. Find out How at . . . → The Love Life Reset REPLAY

Someone said to me once, Matthew, just because you can cook a five-star gourmet meal, it doesn't mean you should do it for every person who knocks on the door of your house. Welcome everybody to the Love Life Podcast. I am Matthew Hussey, and this is a clip from the archives that I think is really going to help you today. Check it out, and I'll speak to you at the end of the episode. Look, truth is, most people who watch this channel want a relationship. Relationships? Yes. Dating? I don't want that, right? That's most people's approach to this is please anything but dating. I want a relationship though. So how do you manage your energy so that the dating process, the part that you need to do to get to a relationship doesn't burn you out before you ever get one? Here are five ways to

manage your energy in the process. Number one, be wary of projecting your hopes and dreams onto the person you're on a date with. So many people start dating somebody, they get overexcited about that person, they get excited about the projection of them, not the real them. How could they? They barely know this person and all of a sudden the stakes become very high because it becomes very important that this goes well because after all, this is the right person. You're projecting your hopes, your dreams onto the person in front of you. They are a blank canvas on which to put everything you've always wanted in your love life. When the stakes go up like that,

so does your adrenaline. Your energy starts to spike as you give more and more to this person. Even if you don't show it to this person, just the anxiety that comes with having made them so important burns energy. Remember this, getting to know someone, knowing if they're truly right for you is a slow process. It happens through the accretion of moments and experiences with this person that tell you bit by bit there's someone you could actually construct a relationship with. It's not something that happens overnight. So relax if you're early in the process right now. There's not really anything for you to lose. Number two, the second way to manage your energy is to not give all of yourself immediately. We do this in one of two ways. We either give someone the absolute best of us,

or we give someone the worst of us. Both are too much energy for where we're at in the process in early dating. Now, giving someone the worst of us would mean showing them all of our insecurities, talking about our angry feelings towards our ex about our last breakup, talking about the intimacy issues we have from something that's happened to us in our life, essentially taking all of the difficult things in our life or all of the struggles we're currently having and placing them in front of the other person

at an inappropriate stage. Now, giving the best of us is doing things for this person right now, showing parts of us, giving an amount of energy that is unearned. It could be clearing our schedule for someone who has really not earned it at this stage. It could be going out of our way to give them the greatest date ever when really we should just be in a stage of getting to know them a little better. It could be that they told us of a certain baked

good that they really like and you show up with the box of them on the next date. Someone said to me once, Matthew, just because you can cook a five-star gourmet meal it doesn't mean you should do it for every person who knocks on the door of your house. Someone shouldn't get the best or the worst of you immediately. They should get the appropriate amount for the stage you're in. Do this and you'll have more energy to give to the right person in the right situation when it shows itself to be that. Number three, don't give more than they are. Mirror the amount of investment you are getting from this person. Now that doesn't mean that every once in a while you can't step out of the

dynamic that you've created with this person to lead for a moment, to show a little bit more energy or investment, to see how they respond to that. That's okay. If no one ever did that, things would never move forward. So at some point, somebody's got to bravely step out of the current dynamic. However, when you do that, you have to actually watch to see if that is mirrored back at you. For example, if you texted someone in the morning saying, good morning, how are you? And that's not something either of you are accustomed to doing for each other. Wait and see how this person responds. The next day, don't send the same message.

Because otherwise, you're now in a dynamic of doing that every day. You're continuing to invest every day without seeing if they're willing to do the same, if they ever take the lead. Let them come to you in equal amounts. Number four, don't make them a priority before they've done the same for you. You have to start prioritizing each other equally. If someone doesn't talk to you for a couple of weeks

and then out of nowhere wants to see you in three hours, hey, what are you doing this evening? Do you wanna come and do this? That's something you should be inherently suspicious of. There's nothing wrong, by the way, with accepting a spontaneous date. Nothing wrong at all. From someone who has a history and a record

of trying with you, from someone who's been investing, then it just becomes something fun and romantic and spontaneous. But when someone who hasn't been trying all of a sudden texts us and wants us to make them a priority out of nowhere, this calls for something very different. It doesn't mean completely ignoring because ignoring someone doesn't communicate our standards. What it means is responding with something that

elegantly communicates that this isn't enough for you. Number five, to not reach out any time you're craving attention. We have to make a clear distinction any time we're reaching out to someone. Am I reaching out right now in a way that's organic because I really have something to say or share some value to add to this person's day? Or am I reaching out simply because my ego, my insecurity is craving attention? If the answer is the latter, that's a moment to stop and divert your energy to something

more productive in your day. Something that's actually going to move forward with that energy, because this relationship will not move forward with that energy. And we have to understand, and this is just understanding the ego, understanding our own self-esteem, that is a bottomless well. That need for attention will never be satiated. So even if you do get a response from that person right now in this moment, three hours from now, you'll be feeling the same thing again because reassurance doesn't last. What we need to do in that moment is take that energy and pour it into something that's actually going to make our lives richer, that's going to make us stronger, and that's going to create a more confident us to bring back to the person that we want to attract.

Don't give energy because you're craving attention. Give energy for real connection. So much of our energy is wasted in dating. And we don't have unlimited energy. When we burn it on the wrong people, it can leave us utterly depleted. When people tell me I need to take a break or when people tell me i'm just exhausted that's real that's real we can get utterly burnt out when you've just been dating someone for months or years giving them your best energy and they've just become a vacuum

for the best parts of you and they've not been replenishing the well for you you can come out of that feeling completely taxed and exasperated and burnt out in a way that makes you not want to go anywhere near the dating process for a while. We have to protect ourselves from ever getting to that place and that's the point of this video. Manage your energy because you don't have unlimited energy and when you meet the right person or the person who has the potential to be the right person in the right relationship, we want to have our best energy to give at that point. Before you go today, I have something for you. If this year is the year

you want to meet your person, it is a free training I did called Dating with Results that shows you how to avoid the early mistakes that people make in dating, finally meet your person and get the safety and the commitment that you deserve with them. Go to Dating with Results to watch this free training right now and don't forget to let me know what you think.