What feelings can I expect to experience about dating during my divorce?

What feelings can I expect to experience about dating during my divorce?

If you decide to date during the divorce proceedings you may find yourself feeling guilty. You may feel like you're actually betraying your spouse, even though you have a legal right to do so. You may also feel uncomfortable with someone new and feel awkward about being with that person.You may feel like you have to be the person that somehow this person expects you to be since you didn't make it in the last marriage. So you might now conform and be who someone wants you to be. So, you're going to feel whole different feelings than you did during your marriage but the one thing that's most important is to really figure out if you can be authentic and be there in the moment and not be distracted by your divorce. If you are doing this just to make your spouse jealous, that's the worse possible reason of all. If that person comes back to you because they are jealous, you're not going to resolve any of the problems that led to the divorce, but just artificially patch it up. So, date because you really want companionship. Date because you want to see people out there and see who's out there for you now that you maybe have more self-awareness to see what kind of partner you really want. But don't date to punish your ex, don't date to make them jealous, and don't date to fill up all the holes in you that are there because, it's just not going to work.