You Can’t Have The Fairy Tale, But You Can Have Prince Charming

“Where are all of these gentlemen you talk about all the time?” When I started writing over 4 years ago, my mission was (and still is) to bring back the concept of men being gentlemen – and update what it really means in modern day society. Being respectful, chivalrous, aware, connected (to one’s self, and…

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The Honest Reasons Why Nobody Wants to Get Married Anymore

Men and women won’t be happy until we start seeing each other as teammates again.

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5 Ways To Define What You (Really) Want in a Relationship

Relationships are perhaps our most valuable asset in life, besides time. And while there are many different types of relationships, the person we choose to commit ourselves to intimately, may be the most important decision you can make. While I’ve always said that the most important relationship you’ll ever have is with yourself, your significant other…

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A Society Built on Fads and Shortcuts Will Never Value Longevity

I am a big fan of social media. Without it, I’d have missed out on many transformative relationships, experiences, and opportunities throughout my life. I’m sure many of you can relate. But since nothing is perfect, there are parts of social media and the general direction of modern society that makes me cringe just a…

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New School Romance Podcast – Making Love Great Again

Have romance and courtship and chivalry been squashed by promoting equality between the genders? Of course we should all be treated with equal respect, but when does it start to blur the lines of gender roles in dating? Do gender roles actually make dating *better?* You do not want to miss this conversation. In this…

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5 Ways Modern Society is Crushing Romance

Ah, romance. The stuff seemingly only found in history books and black and white movies where men wore three-piece-suits and called women “darling.” An era not without flaws, of course, and it’s easy to see that society has evolved in strides even throughout the past few decades, but it’s arguable that not everything has been an…

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The New School Romance Podcast: Is Chivalry Dead?

In the premiere episode of New School Romance, host James Michael Sama discusses widespread frustrations with the state of dating in today’s day and age. Are chivalry and romance dead? Are they ever coming back? Should we even work to bring them back? And, if so, how do these things look in modern society compared to…

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You’ll Never Be Happy With Someone Until You’re Happy Alone

The internet (and this website)…is home to countless articles, videos, and quotes about being in a happy relationship. Not settling for less than you deserve. Texts to send a guy to make him fall in love with you. Questions to ask women that’ll get them talking to you. Blah, blah, blah. Like much of our…

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If We Want to Build Real Connections, We Have to Express Real Thoughts

I’m going to be a bad millennial by writing this article, but I’m pretty good at being a bad millennial, so I’m cool with it. For the record, if you’re under 35, you’re still classified as a millennial. Sorry, 34 year olds. This is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile now though, and I…

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We’ll Never Find What We Want In The Places We’re Looking

As someone who speaks to people across the world every day about dating and relationships, I can confidently say there is a growing dissatisfaction with the “state of the date” these days – and – I probably didn’t have to tell you that. I didn’t have to tell you, because odds are you’ve been experiencing…

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