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If You REALLY Want To Know How He Feels About You, Do THIS Emotional intimacy is different from physical intimacy. In today’s hook up dating culture, kissing and sex are seen as very benign, almost like they’re no big deal. That’s quite a 180 degree turnaround from decades ago where it was frowned upon to have premarital sex. In the past, you developed an emotional intimacy FIRST...

A Man’s Capacity To Commit is Based on THESE 5 Factors If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you know that I teach about the criteria to creating a successful, happy relationship: blendable lifestyles, emotional maturity, and shared values. Couples who are committed to each other will put effort into making each of these things work but it takes time to have those radically hon...

5 Ways To Increase Your VALUE With Men And Get Them To RESPECT You We talk about the dating world as being dysfunctional, especially when the hook up culture is so obvious. No matter what age range you’re in, you will likely come across players who just want to have fun for a night or a month and then move on to the next woman. These are not the men who will be willing (or able) to give you...

99% of Men Feel Respected When They Have THIS! Respect is a two-way street and humans across the board are deserving of respect. Most especially, people who decide to be a couple, maybe even leading to marriage or long term commitment. If you can’t respect your partner, it’s extremely difficult to have any kind of meaningful relationship. Accepting each other’s flaws and annoyanc...

7 Signs He’s A Safe Man and That You Can Trust Him Safety is important when dating because we’re basically meeting complete and total strangers. Friends might still set you up on a blind date but for the most part, the men you meet don’t have a mutual friend who can vouch for their character. But safety isn’t just physical; it’s emotional as well. A guy might treat yo...

Want To Keep His Attention? DON’T CHASE; Do THIS Instead A relationship should be an equal partnership and yet may women feel it’s their responsibility to keep a man’s attention. They want to keep their man so badly that they give and give, often without asking for anything in return. Over giving actually comes from a place of chasing a man, or doing everything possible to keep h...

5 NEW Questions You Should ASK About A MAN In The Early Stages of Dating One of the primary reasons women find dating so frustrating is lack of communication. Too often they are attracted to men who just want to have fun or they’re attracted to the superficial guy instead of learning about his deeper desires in life. Of course, women can suffer from not being open enough, too, but you’...

Want More From Someone? DO NOT Chase; Do THIS Instead! Knowing exactly what you want in a relationship will go a long way to attracting the type of man who can give that to you. It’s not enough to be vague, like my client who said she wants more commitment but couldn’t express what that meant to her. When you know what you want and what type of person will compliment your lifestyle and...

Never Chase A Man. Do This Instead (5 Ways He’ll Invest In YOU!) There’s a huge difference between knowing what you want in a man and going after it versus chasing a man for a date. When you set high standards for yourself and determine the type of may you want in a relationship, that knowledge allows you to be picky when sorting through the dating apps. When women chase men, that&#821...

Guys Have a Hard Time Not THINKING ABOUT YOU When You Tell Him This I’m a big proponent of loving yourself first before looking for someone to fill that void. If you’ve done any kind of personal development or spiritual work, that void might be smaller but it was created back when you were growing up. Take a moment to think about your childhood. One of the most common desires for kids...

Is He Stringing You Along? Men Put Women In 4 Categories While Dating Asking questions is an important part of the dating process, especially early on and if you’re looking for a long term relationship. Consider this a way to pre-qualify the men you’re meeting. After answering your questions, do they meet your criteria for a second or third date? If it feels like he’s stringing y...

When He Pulls Away & Then Comes Back Keep This In Mind! Attraction does NOT equal relationship success. Look at any of the celebrity couples from past or present and tell me how many have been in a long term relationship, never mind still married after 20 years. Just because you have fire-hot attraction for each other does not mean you’ll remain together when the hard stuff comes at you....

Men (Over 40) Need This To Settle Down & Commit As the old saying goes, timing is everything. When two people get together – either for a first meeting or deciding to date one another – if the timing is off, they’ll run into challenges. Of course, life is full of challenges but why not set yourself up for success by being on strong footing both emotionally and financially? Es...

Why Men Feel FEAR After They Met The One In the dating world, most people put up their guard or a wall when meeting new people because they want to build some trust before letting the other person into the nitty gritty of their lives. You can still be authentic in showing your personality and asking radically honest questions while being cautious with strangers on a date. When men find someone the...

How To Tell A Man WHAT YOU WANT From Him Even though you might think most men are poor communicators, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to open up those lines so you feel heard. Too many times a situation or disagreement may arise (and not always serious) where the communication drops off or an argument ensues only for the issue to never really be resolved. This type of ‘sweepi...

Why Guys Go Silent and What To Do About It… You’d think that with the advent of smartphones that communication would get easier but in many ways, today’s technology makes it easier to AVOID real communication. People easily claim that they missed a text or they can decline a phone call. Before we can resolve this problem, it’s necessary to look at the various types of commu...

Don’t Chase…Do THIS Instead! What are your definitions of masculine and feminine energy? Many people (Marie included!) relate the types of energy to traditional gender roles. For instance, they think masculine energy is related to being the hunter/gatherer/provider whereas feminine energy is related to being the nurturer and caregiver. I can understand why you might think this way but...

7 Things Men Do When They’re Extremely Attracted to You Believe it or not, when men are attracted to a woman, they don’t necessarily make obvious moves. Of course, there ARE the guys who will fawn all over a woman, feeling the need to invade their personal space or give unwanted touches. But there are also more subtle things to look for which are signs that you’re dealing with an emoti...

Men are Very Attracted to Women Who Don’t Try I’d like you to think about this title and idea in two different ways. First, think about a woman who doesn’t go overboard with trying to impress a man. She’s confident in who she is and doesn’t feel the need to play games or ‘hard to get’. She’s putting forth effort in her appearance and in meeting up with guy...

5 Feminine Ways to Keep a Man’s Interest **Game Changer** So many people in the midlife dating world think women have to embrace their feminine energy and men have all the masculine energy. While there’s truth to the idea that EVERYONE has an energetic makeup, it really takes two PEOPLE to connect and to determine that they want to commit to a relationship, no matter how much feminine...

If You Want More From A Man, Do THESE 6 Things Divorce has really made men gun shy when it comes to meeting women and creating relationships. Not every divorce is contentious and not every ex-wife is a nightmare but depending on the severity of the experience, it can take men awhile to feel comfortable in the dating scene. By no means does this grant them permission to be jerks; but maybe a little...

Why Men (Over 40) CHOOSE One Woman Over ANOTHER In today’s dating world, it’s quite common for men and women to date multiple people at the same time. While you might question how do you get to know someone if there’s always another person hanging in the background, many midlife people are tired of wasting their time and they figure why not balance two people at the same time. If...

Truth Behind WHY He Won’t Commit to You | Common Excuses As humans we can ALL come up with excuses for not doing something. I don’t have time to exercise. I don’t know how to cook so I eat out every night. No one is hiring so I’m stuck in this dead end job. Sound familiar? In the end, whether we’re thinking of the excuses we make to ourselves or that the men in your life ma...

Get More From A Man | Don’t Chase, DO THIS Instead So many women come to me with deep frustration over the dating world, mostly complaining about how inept men seem to be. Piled on top of ineptitude is the conflicting advice of other  experts who ALL have different takes on dating. So, between the confusing advice and the lifelong lessons they’re carrying around, it’s no wonder m...

Want More Than A Situationship? DON’T CHASE HIM; Do THIS Instead Are you in a real relationship or a situationship? If you haven’t heard this word before, it refers to ambiguous relationships. For example, if you’re unsure of where your relationship is going or if you think you’re being monogamous but aren’t sure, that’s a situationship. Do you think a situation...