So I've always followed FDS primarily as a dating community and was hoping to compare notes with you girls about our dating experiences lately. I took a couple of years off to focus on grad school, and have now been going on dates and have had such a positive experience now that I have done the work and applied the handbook.
I know some time has passed since we were all on reddit- I was wondering how you girls feel about dating these days? It's been a super positive experience for me personally because of all the vetting and then filtering out of toxic men with red flags. It's been a few weeks, but the quality of men's behavior is so drastically different to when I was dating pre-healing/fds. Even years ago when I tried applying the handbook I got burned a lot because I would make exceptions etc. None of that now!
How about you? Any progress lately?
No, waste of time that can be spend otherwise.
I went on one date lately with someone who seemed nice enough and even that turned into disaster. Then I found myself wasting almost all Saturday because first I didn't do anything that I normally do that day but instead tried to max out my looks and not eat anything that would give me bloating. Then picking the clothes, doing hair, some make up. Ugh. If the dude was at least a keeper until next day but no, he fucked up already on the first date.
So IMHO - dating is waste of time and as such I will not do this again.