In this Rewind podcast episode, Matthew Hussey delivers a focused monologue on how to navigate dating without exhausting oneself. He emphasizes the importance of managing personal energy, treating dating as a reciprocal exchange, and setting clear boundaries. Key advice includes waiting for a partner’s response before repeatedly reaching out, ensuring both parties prioritize each other equally, being cautious of sudden, unsolicited invitations, and distinguishing genuine outreach from attention‑seeking driven by ego. Hussey warns that chasing validation drains a “bottomless well” of self‑esteem, urging listeners to redirect that energy into personal growth and confidence. He also promotes his free weekly email, “The Three Relationships,” which teaches how to improve relationships with others, oneself, and life itself. The episode’s core message is to conserve and allocate one’s limited emotional energy wisely so that when the right person appears, one can bring their best self to the relationship.
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Look, Truth is, most people who watch this channel want a relationship. Relationships? Yes. Dating. I don't want that.
Foreign.
So how do you manage your energy so that the dating process, the part that you need to do to get to a relationship, doesn't burn you out before you ever get one? Here are five ways to manage your energy in the process. Number one Be wary of projecting your hopes and dreams onto the person you're on a date with. So many people start dating somebody, they get over excited about that person. They get excited about the projection of them, not the real them. How could they? They barely this person. And all of a sudden the stakes become very high. Because it becomes very important that this goes well. Because after all, this is the right person. You're projecting your hopes, your dreams onto the person in front of you. They are a blank canvas on which to put everything you've always wanted in your love life. When the stakes go up like that, so does your adrenaline. Your energy starts to spike as you give more and more to this person. Even if you don't show it to this person, just the anx that comes with having made them so important burns energy. Remember this. Getting to know someone, knowing if they're truly right for you, is a slow process. It happens through the accretion of moments and experiences with this person that tell you, bit by bit, there's someone you could actually construct a relationship with. It's not something that happens overnight. So relax if you're early in the process right now, there's not really anything for you to lose. Number two, the second way to manage your energy is to not give all of yourself immediately. We do this in one of two ways. We either give someone the absolute best of us or we give someone the worst of us. Both are too much energy for where we're at in the process. In early dating now, giving someone the worst of us would mean showing them all of our insecurities, talking about our angry feelings towards our ex, about our last breakup, talking about the intimacy issues we have from something that's happened to us in our life. Essentially taking all of the difficult things in our life or all of the struggles we're currently having and placing them in front of the other person at an inappropriate stage. Now, giving the best of us is doing things for this person right now, showing parts of us, giving an amount of energy to that is unearned. It could be clearing our schedule for someone who has really not earned it at this stage. It could be going out of our way to give them the greatest date ever, when really we should just be in a stage of getting to know them a little better. It could be that they told us of a certain baked good that they really like and you show up with the box of them on the next date. Someone said to me once, matthew, just because you can cook a five star gourmet meal and it doesn't mean you should do it for every person who knocks on the door of your house, someone shouldn't get the best or the worst of you immediately. They should get the appropriate amount for the stage you're in. Do this and you'll have more energy to give to the right person in the right situation. When it shows itself to be that. Number three, don't give more than they are, mirror the amount of investment you are getting from this person. Now, that doesn't mean that every once in a while you can't step out of the dynamic that you've created with this person to lead for a moment to show a little bit more energy or investment, to see how they respond to that. That's okay. If no one ever did that, things would never move forward. So at some point somebody's got to bravely step out of the current dynamic. However, when you do that, you have to actually watch to see if that is mirrored back at you. For example, if you texted someone in the morning saying, good morning, how are you? And that's not something either of you.
Are accustomed to doing for each other.
Wait and see how this person responds the next day. Don't send the same message because otherwise you're now in a dynamic of doing that every day. You're continuing to invest every day without seeing if they're willing to do the same. If they ever take the lead, let them come to you in equal amounts. Number four, don't make them a priority before they've done the same for you. You have to start prioritizing each other equally. If someone doesn't talk to you for a couple of weeks and then out of nowhere wants to see you in three hours, hey, what are you doing this evening? Do you want to come and do this? That's something you should be inherently suspicious of. There's nothing wrong, by the way, with accepting a spontaneous date. Nothing wrong at all. From someone who has a history and a record of trying with you, from someone who's been investing, then it just becomes something fun and romantic and spontaneous. But when someone who hasn't been trying all of a sudden texts us and wants us to make them a priority out of nowhere, this calls for something very different. It doesn't mean completely ignoring, because ignoring someone doesn't communicate our standards. What it means is responding with something that elegantly communicates that this isn't enough for you. Number five. To not reach out anytime you're craving attention. We have to make a clear distinction anytime we're reaching out to someone. Am I reaching out right now in a way that's organic because I really have something to say or share some value to add to this person's day? Or am I reaching out simply because my ego, my insecurity, is craving attention? If the answer is the latter, that's a moment to stop and divert your energy to something more productive in your day. Something that's actually going to move forward with that energy. Because this relationship will not move forward with that energy. And we have to understand, and this is just understanding the ego, understanding our own self esteem. That is a bottomless well. That need for attention will never be satiated. So even if you do get a response from that person right now, in this moment, three hours from now, you'll be feeling the same thing again because reassurance doesn't last. What we need to do in that moment is take that energy and pour it into something that that's actually gonna make our lives richer, that's gonna make us stronger, and that's gonna create a more confident us to bring back to the person that we want to attract. Don't give energy because you're craving attention. Give energy for real connection. I hope you enjoyed this video. I feel like this is really important. So much of our energy is wasted in dating and we don't have unlimited energy. When we burn it on the wrong people, it can leave us utterly depleted. When people tell me I need to take a break, or when people tell me I'm just exhausted, that's real. That's real. We can get utterly burnt out. When you've just been dating someone for months or years, giving them your best energy and they've just become a vacuum for the best parts of you and they've not been replenishing the well for you, you can come out of that feeling completely taxed and exasperated and burnt out in a way that makes you not want to go anywhere near the dating process for a while. We have to protect ourselves from ever getting to that place and that's the point of this video. Manage your energy because you don't have unlimited energy and when you meet the right person or the person who has the potential to be the right person in the right relationship, we want to have our best energy to give at that point. Thank you so much for listening to the episode. I hope you enjoyed it.
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Thanks for listening everyone. I'll see you in the next episode. Be well and love life.
