Dating & Relationships
9 Affirmations to Make Dating Fun Again
Dating is as an opportunity to create the love life you’ve always desired…if you choose to see it that way. “I just want to skip the dating part and go right to the phase where we’re comfortable on the couch together.” This is what someone I’m coaching said to me on one of our recent…
Read MoreIt’s Not “Complicated,” They’re Just The Wrong Person
The right person will enhance your life, not complicate your life. Have you ever settled for for “it’s complicated” because you’ve just assumed that’s how every relationship must be? Your partner is hot and cold, off and on, incongruent with their words and actions. But, they’re still sticking around, so they must want to be…
Read More9 Traits of a High Quality Man (and How to Attract Him)
The first step to getting what you deserve is knowing who to look for in the first place. The next step is understanding what they’re looking for in return. It’s a controversial thing to say that someone is “high quality,” because it implies that some people don’t fit the bill. Let’s be honest, though, there…
Read MoreHow To Set Healthier Boundaries in Life and Love
Setting healthy boundaries in (all) of your relationships is the key to even better emotional health. Here’s how, and why, to do it. Why do we find it so difficult to set boundaries in our personal lives? Even people who accomplish high levels of professional success can fall into negative patterns of dating – or…
Read More10 Red Flags He Won’t Commit To You
Save yourself time and heartbreak by paying attention to these red flags. Many inquiries I get from women involve their confusion about whether or not the man they are seeing is serious about them. My belief is that if you are really that confused about someone’s intentions, then odds are your instincts are correct and they are…
Read MoreSuccessful and Single: What Men Get Wrong About Dating Strong Women
Do successful men really want to “marry down”? Studies show that the answer is no. Are you worried that you’re overqualified for dating? Many successful women may shy away from, or completely avoid discussing their career on a date because they don’t want to scare away a man who may be intimidated. I hear this…
Read More5 Reasons Your Online Dating Profile is Attracting The Wrong Men
There isn’t a predictable formula for online dating (or dating of ANY kind), but there are common mistakes that may be holding you back from attracting the right type(s) of men. Just a few short years ago it was almost a strange stigma to have met someone online. We didn’t want to admit we used…
Read More10 Ways to Stop Being the Nice Guy who Finishes Last
It’s not the “nice guy” who finishes last. It’s the pushover. Back at the dawn of time, men began using the excuse that “nice guys finish last” to convince themselves that they weren’t responsible for their own dating failures. I know this, because I was one of them. I did everything I thought women (girls,…
Read MoreEarning Our Place as Men
Some say the world is stripping men of their authority or power. But maybe we’ve stopped doing what it takes to earn it. I often think about what it means to “be a man.” Not just the biological randomness that we’re born as a male human, but what it really means to be a man worthy of…
Read MoreCracking the Code of “What Women Want”
It’s not as complicated as it seems. They say there are 8 wonders of the world, but we all know that the 9th one is the question: What the hell do women actually want? This article isn’t necessarily here to answer that question, but to help explore if it’s even the right one to ask…
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