20: Is giving emotional consent the answer to bad dating behaviour?

<p>Should emotional consent be talked about in the same way as physical consent when dating new people?&nbsp;</p> <p>Often singles meet someone they like and go with the flow without saying where they want things to end up.&nbsp;They worry that if they push the issue, they’ll jinx it and drive the other person away.&nbsp;</p> <p>They go on dates and have sex without having ‘the’ conversation. It may go well for a while, then the other person ghosts or drops them because the grass might be greener with someone else they just matched with.&nbsp;</p> <p>A certain level of trust and respect gets broken each time and gives birth to a whole world of pain in the modern dating world.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this podcast, I talk about whether the answer is emotional consent.</p>