Love has no agenda …

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When are you being too picky? And when are you being too accepting?

You’re only being too picky if you’re unwilling to give what you want. And when you’re unwilling to give what you want, you betray yourself by settling for less than you have to give. Don’t accept less than you want from yourself OR a partner.

When you are your best self, you attract a partner–and a life–that exceeds your pickiness.

Love smiles on you,… More

Men — and even women — have struggled for centuries to figure out what women want. At times (yes, it’s cyclical), it seems there is no pleasing them with anything.

I could tell you what women want, but it occurs to me that it’s easier to tell you what they don’t want.

Women don’t want a fraidy cat. And the rest is up for grabs — it depends on the woman and her preferences. I know … that’s an unsophisticated response to Freud’s: “Despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer … the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?”

Stay with me, though. If a man’s not afraid, he’s not intimidated by a woman’s intelligence. He appreciates her intuition. He’s not threatened by her emotions, however cyclical; and he’s not embarrassed by his own. He’s strong and vulnerable. He’s true to himself … and that means, according to Shakespeare, he’s true to her.

I could probably rest my case now, but I have another 450 words.

You’ve probably heard how not being afraid of rejection works when you’re selling life insurance. There’s an old story about a man who was offered one dollar for every “no” he got.… More