Being single and dating carry highly charged negative connotations. For many singles, dating is a harsh reminder of being a failed single. What follows from here is a bleak outlook and dread of dating.
There is the backlog of futility from endless fruitless first and only encounters, and those who have become resigned to seeing themselves as, ‘serial daters,’ who rarely, if ever, get to see someone a second time. Then there is the pervasive and inescapable pain of loneliness and isolation that morphs into a protracted state of defeatist depression and disconnection.
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