{"id":1807,"date":"2020-11-09T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2020-08-27T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T23:28:08","slug":"online-dating-is-not-a-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/index.php\/dating-online\/1807\/online-dating-is-not-a-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Dating is Not a Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1820\" src=\"http:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/romance2-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"what women want\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/romance2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/romance2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/romance2-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christian.bestsingledating.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/romance2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Online dating is not a competition between competing males for the attention of a female. Grow up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Change your mind set from \u201cwinning\u201d to \u201csearching\u201d. This isn\u2019t high school. You are all grown up and have been for quite some time, now. Your attitude is the most important asset you have. You should like yourself and not concentrate of all of the things that aren\u2019t YOUR idea of the perfect guy\u2026 the one the all women want.<\/p>\n<p>What is that women want, you ask? That\u2019s the age old question. I can tell you a few things women want and don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women want a man to be confident\u2026 NOT an arrogant jerk.<\/strong> There\u2019s a big difference. You need to like yourself and not be self depreciating but you don\u2019t need to come across like you believe that you are a gift to them from God and have just fallen from the sky. They don\u2019t want you to think that THEY just fell from heaven and are some kind of perfect being, either. 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