Break the Chain: Eliminating Harmful Dating Patterns with Brianna

In this episode of The Voyage Cast, the host invites relationship expert Brianna to share her top five dating tips. Brianna emphasizes the importance of clear and direct communication, avoiding mind games, giving second chances, honoring personal needs and desires, and advocating for oneself. The conversation then delves into the darker side of dating, including unhealthy fears and the practice of mind reading. Brianna provides practical solutions to combat these harmful habits and stresses the need for clarity and understanding in relationships. She encourages listeners to stand up for themselves, believe in second chances, and prioritize their own needs and desires.

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Transcript

(0:00:01) - Introduction Host: "Welcome back to another episode of the voyage cast. In today's episode we're going to talk a little bit more about dating. We're back with Brianna, and she's got five dating tips for us." 
(0:01:12) - Dating Tips Brianna: "What we're going to get into is called don't play games. If you're going to the mountains with your buddies for two days and you know that you're not going to have cell service, let a dating partner know, yeah, I'm going up to the mountains. I'll get back to you or I'll communicate with you when I'm back in town."  
(0:03:50) - Second Chances Brianna: "The second tip that you presented here was give second chances. People are not perfect, you're not perfect. So give second chances, but don't give too many."  
(0:06:55) - Direct Communication in Relationships Brianna: "We live in a culture where there's a whole lot of passivity. The more direct you can be, does it set you up to get hurt? A hundred percent? But again, how much more painful is that gonna be than doing this back and forth, passive? Do they like me? Do they not like me? What's going on?"  
(0:09:15) - Ask for Clarification Brianna: "If someone says there's children running around and they're like, oh man, that looks horrible. And you go oh my gosh, they don't want kids. I can't be in this relationship. I need to get out of here right now and you end the relationship. You're doing yourself and the dating partner a huge disservice."  
(0:14:16) - Unhealthy Fears and Mind Reading Brianna: "We can be very unhealthy in our fears and our anxieties, in our childhood trauma. We go to those places. We have to clarify."