A short monologue by Anwar White addressing fears and practical steps for 'late bloomers'—particularly successful Black women—starting to date. The speaker reassures listeners that dating skills can be learned and recommends beginning with online dating and leveraging friends for support.
Lori said, how do I start dating as a. As a late bloomer? I'm scared. Scared of what, girl?
Scared of not knowing what to do, doing the wrong thing. Scared of these men. Girl, you're. What I know about so many black women, especially if you're smart and successful, is that you have been the first for a lot of different things in your family, and you probably didn't know how to do it exactly, but you put yourself out there, you learned, you figured it out, and you kept it rockin'. And this is the exact same thing. Yeah. Gonna have to date. I would start with online dating.
First and foremost.
Yeah. The interesting thing is I think people are like, oh, I don't know what to do.
I'm sure many of you have best friends. So I want you to understand that.
You'Ve been able to cultivate amazing relationships with your really great friends. So you have the foundation of actually knowing how it. What it looks like to be in an amazing relationship. Yeah. So you're not starting from zero. I think many late bloomers think that they're starting from zero. They're not. They're probably starting from, like, a two or a three.
