{"id":13,"date":"2026-09-30T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odu.org\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-09-30T16:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:10:21","slug":"dating-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/dating-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dating Psychology<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">Understand some of the emotions and patterns that make dating exciting, confusing, and occasionally exhausting.<\/p>\n<h2>Attraction is information\u2014not a verdict<\/h2>\n<p>Chemistry matters, but it does not automatically tell you whether two people have compatible values, communication styles, or relationship goals.<\/p>\n<h2>Rejection without the spiral<\/h2>\n<p>Not every match will become a conversation and not every date will become a relationship. Try to treat a mismatch as information rather than proof of your worth.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch the pattern, not one message<\/h2>\n<p>People get busy and communication varies. Repeated behavior is usually more informative than analyzing a single delayed reply.<\/p>\n<h2>Boundaries make dating clearer<\/h2>\n<p>Knowing what you are comfortable with\u2014and communicating it\u2014helps both people understand whether a connection is workable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating Psychology Understand some of the emotions and patterns that make dating exciting, confusing, and occasionally exhausting. Attraction is information\u2014not a verdict Chemistry matters, but it does not automatically tell you whether two people have compatible values, communication styles, or relationship goals. Rejection without the spiral Not every match will become a conversation and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"hero_heading":"","hero_subheading":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odu.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}