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"When it comes to your dating life, these seven phrases should be used sparingly, if not banished altogether.\nPinterestFacebookCouple Sitting at a Table in a Cafe\nPHOTO: Getty Images1. &amp;quot;My Ex\u2026&amp;quot;\nYou&amp;#39;re dating someone else now; it&amp;#39;s time to stop talking about the person you used to date &amp;#8212; the person with whom it did not work out. Focus on the present.\n2. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s Okay.&amp;quot;\nIt&amp;#39;s okay to say &amp;quot;it&amp;#39;s okay&amp;quot; when it is okay, but often people say it when it&amp;#39;s not. If you&amp;#39;re really gunning for things to work out with another person, you might let a lot of things slide, things that are important to you. &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s okay I missed that show because the guy I&amp;#39;m seeing didn&amp;#39;t want to go.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s okay I got this haircut because the guy I&amp;#39;m seeing said he liked it.&amp;quot; Remember, you&amp;#39;re still you &amp;#8212; the most important person in the equation.\n3. &amp;quot;_ is Perfect.&amp;quot;__\nNothing&amp;#39;s perfect. The person you are seeing isn&amp;#39;t, you aren&amp;#39;t. And that&amp;#39;s fine.\n__4. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t _.&amp;quot;\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t date preppy guys.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t go out on Sundays.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t have sleepovers on weeknights.&amp;quot; Yeah it&amp;#39;s good to stay true to yourself, but identify the things you don&amp;#39;t do that are roadblocks. If you&amp;#39;re &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t&amp;quot;ing all the time, there may be more than you think.\n5. &amp;quot;Ugh.&amp;quot;\nI&amp;#39;m not saying you have to be fake-cheery (that is so annoying) but &amp;quot;ugh&amp;quot;ing all the time makes it sound like you just don&amp;#39;t care. So wave your hands in the air. But don&amp;#39;t say &amp;quot;ugh&amp;quot; to everything that you bemoan. There is a direct correlation between how often you say &amp;quot;ugh&amp;quot; to how miserable people think you are. (And no one really wants to hang out with someone who&amp;#39;s miserable all the time.)\n6. &amp;quot;My mom\u2026&amp;quot;\nYour mom is awesome, she&amp;#39;s the best, nobody can make meatloaf just like her. But it sounds weird if you talk about her too much, and let me tell you from personal experience: people prone to judge get FREAKED OUT if they think you are really really close with your mom (maybe they feel threatened? maybe they think you haven&amp;#39;t grown up? maybe they doubt you can have real friends if your bestie is the woman who gave birth to you?). Unfair but true.\n7. &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m Sorry.&amp;quot;\nWomen in particular say these words way too much without meaning them. I had a girlfriend who recently said &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m sorry&amp;quot; during a kurfuffle at a busy door-opening situation at Petco, and she got angry when the person said &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s okay.&amp;quot; Because she wasn&amp;#39;t actually sorry. She was expecting an &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m sorry&amp;quot; back. Do we even know what &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m sorry&amp;quot; means anymore? Especially in dating, don&amp;#39;t be sorry for dumb stuff. Be sorry when you drop something on someone&amp;#39;s foot or drop their dog onto a hard, marble floor. (I have unfortunately done both to the same person. AND I&amp;#39;M SORRY.)\n&amp;#8212;Written by Lauren Passell for HowAboutWe.com\nAre you guilty of any of these dating taboo words? What other things do you think you should avoid saying with a new guy?\nMore from HowAboutWe:\nThe 9 Most Annoying Things to Say to a Single Person\n6 &amp;quot;Psycho&amp;quot; Things That Women Do That Are Actually Pretty Reasonable\nThe 10 Worst Things to Hear on a First Date\nPhoto: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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