I’m opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It’s funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I’m really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

In this remark, Wilde frames dating not as a performance of expertise but as a vulnerable, evolving practice. The contrast between being a go-to source of “romantic advice” and admitting “I know nothing” underscores how secondhand wisdom can collapse when confronted with one’s own emotional life. Her reference to high school highlights how social norms and personal expectations shift over time, making past experience an unreliable guide. The closing emphasis on “working on myself” suggests a modern self-development ethos: intimacy is approached as something best pursued alongside, not instead of, personal growth and self-knowledge.