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Sober Dating For Dummies
How to navigate the perilous terrain booze-free
I confess. I’m not a relationship expert.
But — who is?
If you’ve had a lot of experience with relationships, that means you’ve been in a lot of relationships, which, by definition, makes you not an expert.
If you’ve only been in one relationship, even if it’s rock solid, how could you have the valuable life experience that only comes from being 50% of a shit show?
Articles on dating and romance are typically written by women — which is understandable. Why would we want advice from the gender who drinks right from the milk carton and can’t remember to put the toilet seat down?
Women might be in the dark when it comes to knowing how a man thinks, but in general, they are slightly less clueless than men in regard to women.
Advantage women.
This is a unisex article — written from a man’s point of view. There’s a dearth of men who write about relationships and for good reason. Clearly, the bounty of women writing articles on dating isn’t doing much to fix the whole broken system — so I’m throwing my hat into the ring.
I can only share my own experience (of which I’ve had plenty) of the pros and cons of sober dating. My hope…