Online Dating: You Have No Obligation To Respond

When you set up an online dating profile, you may be subject to receiving responses from all different types of people. It may be overwhelming that there’s so much coming at you. If you’re a nice and caring person, you may feel obligated to respond. If the messages that you’re getting don’t feel right or it feels like the other person isn’t exactly on the same page as you, you have no obligation to respond.

Some people desire a partner in a relationship so bad, but don’t have the patience or take the time to put thought into who they are actually meeting. This is how we can put ourselves in a position to “settle” because no one else is showing up that seems like a better choice. In a “settling” situation, we can feel powerless, defeated and limited.

If we are busy and don’t have much time to put into online dating, but respond to all messages that are coming at us in hopes of the other people liking us, we are setting ourselves up for failure. We are in the mindset of needing acceptance.

Utilize your time by only responding to those that you are interested in and that you feel could be a good match to you. You may have to do some online dating profile investigating or ask more questions. Just remember that you are doing a disservice to that person by leading him or her on if you aren’t interested in the first…