5 Things You Need to Know When Dating as a Conservative Woman in 2019: Why Dating Stinks and Why You'll Have a Good Time Dating as A Conservative Woman. In this video, I share clips from a speech I gave for the Center of Conservative Women's Florida Summit.
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00:00:39.180Now in today's video, I'm actually going to be sharing clips from a speech that I gave for the
00:00:44.500Center of Conservative Women's Florida Summit. So it was an amazing experience. Thank you so much
00:00:50.580to the Claire Booth Luce Center for Conservative Women for having me. I absolutely loved speaking
00:00:55.720to the amazing group of young women that were there and I'm really excited to share this video
00:01:01.200with you guys. So you can see a little bit of what I spoke about as well as a few questions that I
00:01:06.120answered from the audience. So I hope you guys enjoy it. Keep in mind, if you are a student on campus and
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00:01:25.720get into it. When you're dating someone who isn't right for you, it's boring, it's stressful,
00:01:33.180it's depressing. When you're trapped at a table across from someone you don't like but you can't
00:01:39.460leave, well that's stressful. When you're trapped on a date and there's no exit, it's kind of boring
00:01:48.480when that person and you don't get along. And when you get home from a date that you haven't
00:01:52.860enjoyed, it's depressing when you realize nothing's going to come from it. Think about a show like
00:01:59.500Emily in Paris. I don't know if any of you guys have watched it. The spiritual successor to Sex in
00:02:05.120the City. Every episode, Emily meets, falls for, sleeps with, and breaks up with a different guy in
00:02:12.940the beautiful city of Paris. And the one guy she's had feelings for all along, well he's in a
00:02:19.680relationship with her close friend while he's making moves on her. Does any of this sound fun to
00:02:26.480you? When you're watching a show like that and it's got brightly oversaturated colors and beautiful
00:02:33.260Parisian cafe music, it does look very attractive. And they are going to downplay how upsetting that
00:02:40.300really is. But when I break it down for you, as I just did, sounds pretty terrible. We are supposed
00:02:48.440to see this and think, wow, adventure. But it sounds not fun. And the women in shows who make it look so
00:02:57.640fun and great are the same women who wake up in a different man's bed every day and feel nothing but
00:03:04.900regret. So why am I starting here? Why am I talking about why dating stinks? Because by dating with
00:03:13.080purpose, dating for marriage, you'll like dating. Why? You'll enjoy dating. Once you're dating someone, you
00:03:23.380enjoy. Once you find the guy that you really like and have a future with, then going on dates with him is the
00:03:31.860best thing in the world. You're getting to do fun things with a person who you connect with, enjoy and
00:03:38.440have longevity with. There is nothing better. So today, I want to talk about how you can date the
00:03:46.140right person and have a heck of a good time doing it. Okay. Number one, start with my patented
00:03:54.600classically Abbey theory of chemistry and compatibility. People talk about chemistry and
00:04:00.940compatibility all the time. I'm sure you've heard that before. But I talk about it just a little bit
00:04:05.480differently. Movies and TV have lied to you about what true love looks like, because it always stops at the
00:04:14.320wedding or the couple getting together. The couples we see in modern media, they're all chemistry couples. There's a
00:04:23.020reason they break up like 15 times. There's a reason that Ross and Rachel only got together in the very last
00:04:28.660episode. Right? They're chemistry couple. And we don't see what happens once they're together and they're trying to raise their
00:04:35.420baby. Like we don't know what happens, but it's probably not going to be great given the 10 seasons prior. Like, so what happens after the
00:04:45.300marriage, we don't get to know. But if you find chemistry and compatibility in one person, then you'll know. You'll have longevity.
00:04:54.720And the real thing is, if you aren't ready to have a family, you aren't ready to have sex. If that guy is not the man you want to be the
00:05:04.620father of your children, you are not ready to have sex with him. Now, one of the great things about waiting to have sex is it weeds out the
00:05:13.680men who are looking for sex more than a relationship. As you saw in my first date story, it weeded him out pretty quick. It's really a
00:05:24.040wonderful way to find the person who wants to wait with you and gives sex the same importance that you do. So when I met my
00:05:33.080husband, we asked the big questions early, right from the start, maybe the second time we met. And worked out. We got engaged
00:05:45.040five and a half months later and then got married a year under the day to when we started dating. Fast turnaround. But
00:05:53.640we were very clear with each other that we wanted to talk about that compatibility. But my husband was
00:06:00.840raised Reform Jewish and I was raised Orthodox. Now, at the time, I was what we call off the derach, which
00:06:08.260means off the path, off the journey a little bit. I wasn't as observant as I am now. But I knew by the
00:06:14.180time I had children, I wanted to be keeping everything that I could so that I could raise my child in a
00:06:19.900religious Jewish home. So I said to my now husband, this is important to me. I want to be religious. I
00:06:28.780want to work on my faith. And by the time I have children, I want to be observant. And he said,
00:06:35.100okay, me too. And even though he wasn't the finished product when we met, and even though he needed to
00:06:43.360learn quite a bit more than I did, because for me, it was just returning to what I had known.
00:06:47.980For him, it was starting from scratch. He was intentional about wanting to be observant. And so
00:06:54.920I could give him the opportunity to prove that. So the first part of this is ask the big questions
00:07:03.440early. Right? Now, I usually say you don't have to ask the big questions on the first date. Give
00:07:09.520yourself a chance to experience that chemistry. See if you guys hit it off. But by date number two,
00:07:15.020ask those questions. Now, some people will say, oh, that's still too fast. But I'm a woman. And I
00:07:20.040know that if I've had a good first date by date number two, I'm in it. I'm ready. I'm like, this is
00:07:24.860the guy. I love this man. And by number by date number four, it's too late. You're, you're, you're gone.
00:07:32.180So date number two is a good time to ask those questions. And it doesn't have to be awkward. It
00:07:37.000doesn't have to be an interrogation. It can be brought up in a, in a natural way. But why not
00:07:44.200ask those questions? What's the worst that's going to happen? He's going to say something that you
00:07:48.560don't like. Okay, great. He's not for you. Solution. Dating isn't fun, but it really can be.
00:07:57.260When you meet that person who you just absolutely adore spending time with, going on dates is awesome.
00:08:04.640And you don't get to do it much when you're, when you're married and you have kids. So take
00:08:09.640advantage of that time before when he still, you know, wants to put on something nice for you and
00:08:15.460you're still shaving your legs. Take advantage of that time. Take dating seriously. And if you do,