In today’s episode of The Self-Confidence Project, I’m revealing how to spot an emotionally immature woman in just two dates or less. You’ll learn the subtle red flags and behaviors that signal emotional immaturity, discover how the Big Five Personality Traits shape dating and attraction, and understand why self-awareness is essential for avoiding relationships that drain you. Backed by decades of psychological research, this episode gives you practical tools to recognize these traits quickly so you can invest your time and energy in emotionally mature, high-quality partners. If you’re ready to date with clarity and confidence, watch until the end — and if you need more personalized support, you can book a complimentary call with me using the calendar link below.
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Kimberly
Here’s the transcript:
Hey guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Self-Confidence Project. I’m your host, Kimberly, and today I want to gift you the understanding of how to spot an emotionally immature woman, and I want you to be able to do this in two dates or less. Now, this isn’t about rushing or judgment, but it is about understanding that while a woman can be beautiful, she can be charming, she can be very intelligent.
And knowing that she can still be completely unavailable for a healthy relationship because emotional immaturity doesn’t always look like chaos. In the beginning of getting to know somebody, sometimes it’s actually hidden under polished conversation. Great manners in the beginning or great first impressions.
So if you truly understand what to watch for, you can spot this with [00:01:00] women that you’re dating within the first two dates because people do reveal themselves. Now, today I am going to share four subtle behaviors. That will tell you a woman is emotionally immature, and then I am going to make sure that you know that these are in fact linked to decades of psychological research, so you know exactly why these things matter.
But I encourage you to take this video a layer further. So what I want to ask of you is that not only do you listen to me talk today so that you can understand and spot these traits in women. I want you to gain a layer of self-awareness as well by asking yourself whether you’re actually doing some of these same things without realizing it.
So finding an emotionally mature woman will make up only half your relationship. Obviously, you need to be bringing in [00:02:00] that maturity yourself. You need to bring in your own grounded energy so that you can both sustain a deeply loving relationship. So you’re gonna learn how to spot it in women. And I want you to also walk away from this video going, Hey, maybe there’s one or two areas that I need to improve on.
Or you might go, you know what, I’m actually pretty damn mature. So firstly, welcome to this channel. If you are new and you are interested in this video, I just wanna welcome you here. We talk all things life and dating and relationships. I am a dating and relationship coach for men. I support good-hearted men to navigate dating the complexities of modern dating.
I help them navigate dating after divorces, separation, or the end of long-term relationships or men that are just emotionally ready for a deeply committed, loving long-term. Relationship with a good woman. And so if this is something or an area of your life that you’re struggling in, you need some support, you are welcome to book a complimentary call with me.
I’ll get to know you, see if coaching’s right for [00:03:00] you. Um, it’d be, it’d be lovely to chat. Um, and if I’m not the right fit or coaching’s not the right fit, I’m happy to point you in a direction that might feel more, um, valuable to you. Now, why emotional immaturity matters and how can you learn to spot this kind of scientifically?
Now, when psychologists measure personalities. There is one framework that has very much stood the test of time, which is the big five personality traits. And this is not some pop quiz, right? This is not some. Dating gimmick it. Um, it’s not some filter on hinge, right? This has been developed over decades of research.
It’s been studied cross-culturally and it’s used clinically by psychologists. Now, when I first heard of this, it was through the mouth of Dr. Jordan Peterson. I understand some people really like him. Some people don’t really like him, but he has done extensive work with this model, and this is when I first [00:04:00] heard.
References to the big five personality traits. Now the big five measures. Number one, your openness to experience. So things like your curiosity, your willingness to explore new things. The big five measures, conscientiousness, so one’s reliability, one’s organization, one’s follow through. It measures extroversion, so your energy and social situation.
It measures agreeableness. So we’re talking about empathy, cooperation, compassion here, and it also measures neuroticism. So one’s emotional stability or one’s instability. And here’s why this matters in dating, right? Obviously someone’s personality matters in dating. But emotional immaturity almost always shows up in certain combinations of these traits, and I want you [00:05:00] to be able to spot these things early on.
Why? So you don’t over invest or waste time or chase or pursue women that just are not available for the healthy relationship you truly desire. For example, if a woman has low conscientiousness, then she’s not going to be very good at following through on what she says she is going to be doing. If a woman has low agreeableness, um, you’re gonna notice that she’s quite combative, uh, or very self-focused.
If you meet a woman who’s high in neuroticism, you’re gonna notice that she tends to overreact, she gets upset easily. And she just seems to be the type of woman that thrives on drama. Now, the beauty of starting to understand all of this is that you don’t need, you know, a white coat and a chemistry lab to figure this out, right?
People will reveal these traits to you [00:06:00] naturally in conversation and in their behavior. Sometimes people will do this within moments of meeting them or talking with ’em. So let’s get into these four. Red flags ultimately that you can spot in just two dates that tell you a woman is just too emotionally immature for a relationship with you at this period of your and her life.
Now, red flag number one is what I like to consider the victim narrative, and this is ultimately going to be demonstrated in a woman who consistently. Paints herself as the wronged party in past relationships, in her friendships, or in work environments. So it doesn’t have to necessarily be in relationships, but it can be in.
In romantic relationships, but it’s in relationships. So some of the [00:07:00] behavioral clues that you wanna be very mindful of is whether a woman, when you match with her online or you go on your first date with her, she’s talking at length about these toxic. X is that she has collected without acknowledging any role she played in those relationships.
The victim, I was a victim of this person and that person and that person. So be mindful because you might be thinking, wow, that’s. Awful. That’s very plausible that these things happen, and that’s really awful that this happened to you and wow, like this is a terrible life story that you’ve been through.
But if you’re listening to a woman blame others without acknowledging her role in things, um, please be very mindful of this woman. Now, this woman might describe repeated situations where everybody else was the [00:08:00] problem, but not. Her run for the hills, right? Or you might notice that she’s a really critical negative tone when she talks about her past and why this matters, guys, is because this will signal low agreeableness.
Low empathy for others’ perspectives and high neuroticism, high emotional instability. Now, I do remember, and I have actually worked with a number of male clients who have dated women prior to working with me or the start of working with me. They got really wrapped up in a woman because she was what?
Very beautiful, right? And so this particular client that I’m thinking about went out on a date. With a woman who told him pretty much within the first like 30 minutes, I think of their date, that every man she had dated in the last 10 [00:09:00] years was a narcissist, right? So this was a pattern for her. And I remember my client saying to me later, he went, Kimberly, like, thank you for helping me understand what to look out for, because.
I didn’t really recognize that she was in this victim mindset until you pointed out. And he goes, I never really realized that. She never once was mentioning what she learned or how she grew from those relationships. And he goes, that was the dead giveaway for me that you know, I was just gonna be the next narcissist in her collection of narcissist.
And so the truth is, when we are. Smitten entangled looking at someone attractive. We very often ignore the deeper intuition we have that something’s wrong or we just don’t have the education to know. What signs to look out for. So I remember this [00:10:00] client, you know, you know those things. Obviously that relationship didn’t work out and he chose not to pursue it.
Um, and I’m glad that he didn’t because he met someone else who was in fact very emotionally mature and he’s gone on to have a lovely relationship with her. So please be mindful of, um, individuals that blame the world and not take any self responsibility. It’s very much a victim mindset. Red flag number two is inconsistency between somebody’s words and somebody’s actions.
And what you’re gonna notice is a woman says one thing to you, but she behaves another way. And even if this is happening in small ways, please be mindful of it. So behavioral CR clues will be is she says she’s easygoing, however, she’s complaining about the table that you got sat at. Or she says she’s easygoing, but complained about the drink, or complained about the food, or complained about the noise or complaint about something, right?
So there’s, I’m saying I’m this, but I’m behaving in [00:11:00] contradiction to that. Or this kind of woman is the one that agrees to plans with you, but cancels last minute without urgency. So she says one thing and then is doing another thing. And I know a lot of men get really wrapped up in this one because. You wanna give people the benefit of the doubt, and you might find her really strikingly beautiful, so you give her extra benefit of the doubt.
But please be mindful of this one. If a woman cancels last minute on you without urgency, um, you wanna make, you wanna understand like she’s showing you who she is right now. What about a woman that talks about, you know, how much she values honesty and respect in a relationship, but then she might value honesty, and then you ask her a direct question and she diverts.
Right, so she doesn’t actually answer it or she’s very charming, so she downplays it or flirts with you to avoid having to [00:12:00] answer that question. And why this is important is why it’s important to understand this is this points to low conscientiousness, which is a very big predictor, guise of instability in long term.
Relationships. Now, one of my prior clients was dating a woman who just said she was really into health and fitness, but when they went out on their first date, she actually admitted she hadn’t been to the gym in six months. Now, this isn’t really about the gym, right? This is about whether her words were matching her reality because inconsistency, especially inconsistency early on in a dating relationship.
Usually means bigger inconsistencies later on. So don’t ignore those little things that make you pause and because that’s your inner wisdom trying to tell you something. So don’t ignore it because she’s beautiful or she’s charming or you haven’t been on a [00:13:00] date for a while. Right. Now, another red flag, um, to be mindful of is.
A woman who overreacts to what would be described as minor things. So this is disproportionate emotional responses to small stressors, tiny stressors, which might be like snapping at the wait staff or, um, getting really angry at you for something that was like very minor, maybe the way you put your arm around her, or the seats you chose at this.
Movies that you’re taking her to. It’s just a little minor thing, but she’s kind of like, she overreacts, she snaps. Um, I have a client that mentioned, so maybe some people won’t consider this a small thing, but, um, when maybe you present a different idea, a different belief to the woman that you’re dating and she freaks out at you, like the belief you have is, makes you the scum of the earth.
Don’t then [00:14:00] go try to fight for this woman’s attention if she. Isn’t open to your perspective or to hearing you out. What’s more important to her is her emotional reaction in that moment. She’s the victim, right? So be mindful of how women behave. Now what about if she gets visibly agitated because there’s some small delay, right?
I know some people are, they have a very strong value around time and, and my time is something that you need to value. And understandably, everybody’s time is valuable, but if there’s a very short delay, like you’re running five minutes behind, or you have to wait a little longer for the table at the restaurant and you notice she’s like really annoyed by that.
Just take note of these things. Right. Don’t ignore these things. Take note of them. Or she speaks with intense negativity, um, about little inconveniences. And this matters because this is a woman who is gonna be ranking higher in [00:15:00] neuroticism, which is low emotional stability. You’re gonna be riding these waves, boy, if you stick around for this.
Now, I had a client who had gone on a second date to a wine bar. And, you know, you go to a wine bar, you’re probably excited about the wine or your favorite wine’s gonna be there. And they didn’t have the specific wine that she was really hoping for, and they had bonded over wine, right? And, but she was visibly upset for the next 15 minutes.
And that’s just not just about wine, right? That’s, that’s a woman’s inability to self-regulate. And guess what? That’s gonna be exhausting over time. So be mindful of, um, overreactions to minor things. And lastly guys, something really important to be mindful of for yourself, for the women you’re dating is poor boundaries with time, energy, and attention.
So what you wanna be noticing here is, does a woman you’re dating or do you, I’m gonna call you guys out on this woman, ’cause this is one I see men doing arguably the most, [00:16:00] especially post-divorce, is you’re demanding too much from the relationship too soon. And you’re not really creating the space, a natural space to build a healthy relationship.
So what a woman will do here, the behavioral clues you wanna look out for is this woman is expecting constant communication from day one. She is gonna be very upset if you don’t reply to her instantly, or, and, or she will share very deeply, uh, personal or heavy emotional information with you quickly on.
Online on the first date and on your second date? Right. So what’s happening here is this is often combining high neuroticism with low conscientiousness, which creates a lot of urgency and creates a lot of chaos. Right. If someone doesn’t have healthy boundaries around time or what they expect early on in a relationship, they may be in a place where they haven’t had that model to ’em.
They’re not making the right choices for themselves. They’re consuming the wrong types of [00:17:00] information on social media that say, men should do this immediately, or women need to be doing this immediately. Um, you really want a real loving, long-term relationship to have room to breathe. It should not be coming with.
An instant set of unrealistic expectations for, um, time, energy, and attention. So please be mindful of that ’cause I know it’s easy to ignore these things when we feel good that we are getting some of the attention. Um, for example, I had a client that met a woman who after the very first dinner, was basically sending him a bunch of texts every day.
And, um, and he thought it was really flattering at first, but then she started saying like, Hey, how come you’re not saying goodnight every night? And they got into this like, pattern of texting. And while it was flattering at first for this guy, um, it actually led to. It demonstrates a lack of emotional pacing, and it really started to open the door to bigger boundary issues.
[00:18:00] So I say all of these things because emotional immaturity isn’t just about going around and judging someone else’s character. It’s about understanding these things so you can protect your own time and energy, and if you start understanding some of the traits to be looking out for with women and within yourself, right?
This video is. Educational for self-awareness. Um, but if you understand low conscientiousness, low agreeableness, high neuroticism, you can start to spot these behaviors earlier on or at least learn to categorize those inner instincts that you might be having, that you might be choosing to ignore. And if you start listening to that, you’ll avoid getting into a relationship that leaves you feeling ultimately very drained.
So, um, if you like this right, you wanna go deeper into understanding women’s behavior. You wanna build genuine attraction. [00:19:00] Um, you wanna understand how to date after divorce. I do have a free masterclass. There’s a link to it. You can go watch that for free. I’ve got various other bits and pieces that you can look into.
I have a audio masterclass. We’re talking and texting with women, um, and understanding the differences in communication there. I have a, uh, uh, high impact masterclass on, on building a kind of profile, dating profile that attracts healthy, right, healthy, aligned women to you. Um, and what else? I, I’m forced, I have lots of other resources and freebie downloads you can access.
And of course I have the complimentary call with myself to see if one-on-one personalized coaching is the right thing for your life and your situation and the goals that you have. But nonetheless, I hope this has been a helpful educational video for you. I hope that you in a layer deeper. Also ask yourself how you’re showing up, um, as well as noticing some of these big five personality traits in the women that you might be getting to know.
And I hope that [00:20:00] is providing helpful information so that you can make good choices in dating. Um, because when we choose to commit to somebody. You know, commitments is not something we take lightly, like we’re committing to who this person is. So you better get to know who this person is, and that includes yourself.
So thank you guys for, uh, watching today’s video. Following all the way to the end, please leave your, uh, comments and thoughts on the comments of this video as well as when did you know that someone wasn’t right for you? What were the. The signs and the red flags that helped you get the clarity to know that this isn’t the person that you wanna continually invest in, um, that just isn’t gonna be right for you.
Thanks guys, for tuning in and see you guys all next week. Ciao.
