Love has no agenda …

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Men—and even women—have struggled for centuries to figure out what women want. It’s easier to tell you what they don’t want!

Women don’t want a coward. 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 courageous, 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 as a woman, I like to talk, and I love to be heard.

We’re familiar with rejection in the context of sales, right? There’s even a story about a new-hire to sell life insurance. He was offered one dollar for every time somebody turned him down. With nothing to lose and a dollar to gain, he fearlessly approached as many prospects as he could.… More