Ep. 289: Dating Your Imagination: The Fantasy Trap in the Early Stages of Dating
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Natalie Lue
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Natalie Lou, and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions, a podcast about building, |
| 0:07.7 | growing and sustaining, healthy and intimate relationships with yourself and those around you |
| 0:12.9 | by reclaiming yourself from your emotional baggage. Since 2005, I've been writing one of the |
| 0:19.0 | longest running self-help blogs in the world, |
| 0:21.2 | baggage reclaim. I'm a dating and relationship coach, and I'm also author of five books, |
| 0:26.2 | including Mr. Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and The Joy of Saying No. |
| 0:31.2 | Everything I share on the podcast will help you break the cycle by healing the past |
| 0:35.6 | through increasing emotional availability, |
| 0:38.7 | cutting back on people pleasing, creating healthier boundaries and ultimately owning who you are. |
| 0:44.6 | You don't have to settle for crumbs on yourself or others, |
| 0:47.4 | and you can give and receive love, care, trust and respect. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, let's do this. |
| 0:59.2 | Hello, hello, hello. How are you doing? I'm back after an impromptu break caused by my coming down with a rancid cold that took me out. There was no way |
| 1:06.6 | that I was going to be able to record, but I have shaken off most of that now, and I'm raring to go. |
| 1:14.0 | And in today's episode, I want to talk about disappointment in the early stages of dating. |
| 1:22.5 | Let me paint a picture. |
| 1:24.4 | So I've noticed that there are really two particular themes around |
| 1:30.6 | disappointment that I see coming up around dating. The first is that we have been chatting |
| 1:40.7 | with someone or we've been on a date or few or several. And as a result of that, |
| 1:48.9 | we've realized, this isn't a fit. Maybe we've realized that there are incompatibilities. Maybe we've |
| 1:57.4 | realized actually we're not into the whatever it might be we've realized it's not a fit |
| 2:01.5 | and that realization is based on reality so we were chatting we were going on the dates we were |
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