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How You Should Handle Rejection in 2021

Joe Gibson, Above The Middle
5 min readJul 1, 2021

Let’s cut to it, I have been rejected in love. A lot. I’m sure many of you have, also. It is part of life and something we will all inevitably but heads with. How we choose to react to it, however, is instrumental in ensuring we don’t find ourselves in recurring patterns of self-sabotage. You see, in taking rejection too close to heart, we lower our self-worth leaving us susceptible to further rejections in the future. Confidence, after all, is an attractive quality to have.

Saying this, how we can enter the dating sphere without the anticipation that the next rejection will be the final nail in the coffin of our self-belief and integrity?

I wanted to share my current mindset on rejection and how this has changed from someone who previously lacked a great deal of self-worth. Disclaimer; I’m not immune to rejection, I don’t think anyone is, but I like to think I can at least withstand its blow a bit better in 2021.

My Epiphany

The main point I remind myself of when faced with rejection, or the prospect of rejection, is this;

Rejection IS and never will be a marker of your lack of attractiveness, flawed character, or any other form of lack in your wonderful human nature.

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Joe Gibson, Above The Middle
Joe Gibson, Above The Middle

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