Paul Eastwick

We got to keep trying.

We got to keep getting into Lauren's group.

Take a shot.

Maybe it works.

Maybe it doesn't.

Then you try again.

You try not to take it personally, looks maxers.

Like, this is the thing.

It's really hard to predict whether somebody's going to like you more or less as they get to know you.

You got to get in there and keep doing it.

It's actually still quite common.

I know we think like online dating has totally taken over.

Online dating is the most common, but even still, there's still a whole lot of friends introducing friends, kinds of relationships that happen out there.

Even some of the online dating relationships that form, it's like you meet this person online and then you're friends for a while before you actually get together.

So anyway, there's a lot of ways it can happen.

But when I advocate for people dating in friend groups, there are a couple important wrinkles there.

One is that at least for heterosexuals, it's important that those be like mixed gender groups.

And it's not just because like it's a popularity thing.

It's because what's often going to happen is that the women in that group, it's not that you're going to date them.

It's that they're going to advocate for you.