Yes, dating is a game in as much as we make it one, consciously or not. When I propose to be more conscious with dating as a game, I mean to work to be more conscious with your own energy to start with. It’s important to find healing within yourself, so you are not only seeking external relationships/hook-ups for pleasure and escape, or for co-dependency on the other hand. Everyone has their various motives in dating, and I think the more we heal our relationships with ourselves, the more honest we can be with partners and potential partners about what we’re seeking and communicate our needs.

When you’ve worked on healing your relationship with yourself (this is ongoing, of course, as no one is truly fully “healed”), you are more conscious of how you engage energetically with others and what energies you both permit into your life and those you give out to others.