Sophie

And so if anything, it showed me that like, I still have stuff to work on for myself too.

Um,

But, yeah, I just, like, I guess now, you know, whatever ends up happening with this, like, if I don't ever hear from him again, like, getting back into the dating scene, I feel like I'm good.

I'm good on, like, a first or second date.

Like, I'm confident enough in myself.

Like, I can be myself.

I know if I like someone or not like someone.

But then when it gets to that point where it's, like, okay, I do like you, like, into that, like, two- to four-week time period or whatnot...

How do I keep myself, I guess, from... Because I was really starting to like this guy a lot.

And maybe it's because of how hot and heavy he was.

But how do I regulate my own emotions that I'm not falling too quickly?

Or maybe that won't happen with someone that goes at a normal pace.

Like, was this like, I mean, like it, it messed with me for a bit, but I think it's a couple of weeks, right?

Well, yeah, I mean, I guess that's reassuring.

Yeah.

Cause like I said, I've never dated.

So I feel like I was kind of like winging this a little bit going into it.

And I think it probably hurt the most just because it was like the first time I had was catching real feelings for someone that, you know, since my ex, but then like, how do I, so I like, even while I was dating this guy, I was still talking to other people.

Like I was like going on dates with other people, but I was like open to meeting other people and trying not to shut myself off.

Now, since this, I have been going on first dates again or meeting new people and doing a lot of comparing in my head because it was so instant with this last guy.