Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships
Jul 24, 2026 · 46 min · 13 segments
In Day 6 of our **7 Days of Dating Confidence**, we're talking about the relationship that shapes every other relationship: the one you have with yourself. In this episode, Katie Sturino shares her…
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
What is it that I really want? What is it that I know about myself? What is it...
What are the areas that I want to improve on? And that's how, you know, you can be confident, and you can take criticism or take feedback [laughs] and interpret it a certain way and get these voices out of our heads, because we all have them.
And I really think the... until we can address them and stop thinking about it like, "Oh, why am I having to do this work?" But rather, "I'm so lucky that I'm going to be doing this work 'cause it's gonna actually set me up-
Mm-hmm
... for the rest of my life, that I'm not in a constant hamster wheel battling-
Mm-hmm
...
these demons and letting people take me down and being unhappy in relationships."
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, relationships don't make you happy unless you're happy, and that's something that we've all heard way too often, and it sounds cliché-
Yeah
...
but it's totally true.
The clarity.
This was, this was a-
...
this was a therapy session.
I really...
I think that s- that just...
You can apply that to every part of your life.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
What is it that I really want? What is it that I know about myself? What is it...
What are the areas that I want to improve on? And that's how, you know, you can be confident, and you can take criticism or take feedback [laughs] and interpret it a certain way and get these voices out of our heads, because we all have them.
And I really think the... until we can address them and stop thinking about it like, "Oh, why am I having to do this work?" But rather, "I'm so lucky that I'm going to be doing this work 'cause it's gonna actually set me up-
Mm-hmm
... for the rest of my life, that I'm not in a constant hamster wheel battling-
Mm-hmm
...
these demons and letting people take me down and being unhappy in relationships."
Mm-hmm.
And, you know, relationships don't make you happy unless you're happy, and that's something that we've all heard way too often, and it sounds cliché-
Yeah
...
but it's totally true.
The clarity.
This was, this was a-
...
this was a therapy session.
I really...
I think that s- that just...
You can apply that to every part of your life.
Mm-hmm.
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