Dating is like employment meeting – you dress up better than you often do, respond to questions you’ve heard 50 times before, make an effort to stifle a yawn before it becomes obvious, and look pleasantly.
If it goes well, great. But then you simply go on another date if it doesn’t – if you don’t land the job, so to speak. And another. And still another.
Dating may be exhausting. So it is small wonder there is a band of those who are traveling the white banner and developing what’s been dubbed “dating burnout” – a social condition brought on by repeated disappointing times.
Helen web web Page understands just what that is like. The 40-year-old from NSW has invested the year that is past online, but seems wrung out after developing emotional bonds with would-be suitors into the electronic sphere, and then feel disappointed by the full time they really came across. [Read more...]