Your Expectations in Dating Are Too High
Why hearing this comment did not inspire me to lower my standards
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4 min readFeb 11, 2022
I heard variations of this comment multiple times when I was single. “Lower your standards,” they said. “Life isn’t a movie or a fairytale,” they said.
But I was never looking for a storybook romance. I have always wanted the real stuff — the kisses at sunset…