3 Quotes by Dr. Liz Powell

The scarcity mindset in dating often goes hand in hand with the sunk cost fallacy. The sunk cost fallacy says that it is bad to lose something we have invested time, money, energy or emotions into, regardless of whether that something is still actually doing anything for you. Humans are highly risk averse creatures, so we tend to prefer NOT losing something over potentially gaining something, even if we don't like what we would lose.

Some folks say that consent is sexy, but really it's more that consent is the absolute bare minimum for things not to be terrible. (I mean, you wouldn't say that the reason a restaurant has amazing food is because the chefs wash their hands after they go to the bathroom.)

Everyone, each and every single one of us, is raised in a culture that plants all kinds of problematic stuff in our brains. Racism, sexism, cissexism, ableism, classism - we are stewed in the soup of oppression whether we like it or not, and none of us gets out unscathed.