A short YouTube monologue by Anwar White (posted March 29, 2025) in which the speaker, a 37-year-old who divorced their high-school sweetheart, offers advice for re-entering dating after divorce. Core advice: take your time, practice self-compassion and patience, start with one dating app, allow yourself to receive messages to rebuild confidence, and set boundaries (e.g., blocking when appropriate). The tone is candid and encouraging.
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Let's see what's going on here. My first time in the dating world after divorcing high school sweetheart. I'm 37. This is New advice. This is I. I'm new. What's the advice? The advice is.
Take your time.
Let me just let me block this person.
Everyone keeps on saying block them.
So that's what I did.
Take your time. It's a different. It's. The landscape in dating is. Is very different than it was even pre pandemic. So I think it's important to just understand that. I think it's important for you to have grace, compassion, and patience for yourself in this process. One of the things that I would do is I would just start on one dating app and just realize that, like.
Receive the messages that come to you so that you can remember that you are that girl. Because after divorce, oftentimes what happens is like, sometimes we feel like a failure. Sometimes we feel like, is anybody really even checking for me? And you're going to have to experience the fact that, girl, you're still hot ish up in here and people really do want to get to know you, to be with you, all of that. So.