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How To Stay Authentic During Online Dating

Sara Knick
3 min readDec 15, 2020

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I’ve written previous posts regarding catfishes. I’ve even dealt with catfishes myself in the online dating world. When you’ve been betrayed by a catfish and haven’t fully healed from that experience, your mind may veer in the direction of planning revenge or getting justice in some way. If you don’t let the negative experience go, you could waste your own time or not make good use of your time.

People desire for events and circumstances to be in their favor, but when things take a wrong turn and they end up in situations where they’ve been embarrassed or emotionally hurt then it is harder to act out of a place of joy and authenticity. If a date sucked or if someone that you were talking to online turned out to be somebody else entirely, you can feel let down, hopeless and frustrated.

If you allow the negative feelings of a negative experience in love to overshadow your love future or make you act in ways than you otherwise would not have then you may never give yourself the right opportunities to find that perfect partner. If your mind has set dating and love to be negative then you will not be able to find enjoyment through the process.

Enjoyment and bliss is where we find our authenticity. In knowing our interests, passions, likes, goals and dreams, we identify who we are with originality. It is much easier to let…

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Sara Knick
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