Why You Should Consider Unfollowing Your Crush
If You’ve Got a Crush, This Counterintuitive Move Could Save Your Sanity
The Dating Nerd is a shadowy figure whose whereabouts and identifying details remain unknown. What we do know is that he is really, really good at dating. He’s been on more dates than you can shake a lengthy bar tab at, and he’s here to help the average guy step his dating game up a notch — or several.
The Question
There’s this girl I’m crazy attracted to and I feel like I’m losing my mind. I can’t stop thinking about her. We know each other from school — we were in the same program — and we’ve hung out at parties a few times. I started falling hard for her a few months back and now I can’t stop thinking about her. She’s insanely gorgeous but we never see each other in real life. Most of our interactions are on Instagram — she posts silly stories of herself pretty regularly and occasionally I comment on them. I feel like we have some decent banter but the convos never last super long and I don’t know whether to back off or try harder. Sometimes I’ll like a picture of hers from a few weeks back, and often she responds by liking a recent one of mine, so I feel like there’s at least some interest. But I asked her if she wanted to hang out last week and she didn’t respond. I can’t stop thinking about her. What do you advise?
The Answer
I’m sorry to hear your tale of woe. But luckily — both for you and for your crush — there’s a simple, easy solution. It was invented by companies such as Instagram specifically to help people like you. It’s called the Unfollow button.
In case you didn’t catch that (lots of people skim these days), I’m suggesting that you do the right thing and unfollow this woman. (more…)