How Do You Know You’re Choosing the Right Person for a Love Relationship?

It’s easy to fall in love.  It’s even easier to fall out of love.  Many people believe you fall out of love because you missed something between “falling in” and “falling out”.  However, when you look at the most successful relationships, there is a step most people miss before “falling in” love. 

Part of that first step is about

What Comes Before Love in an Intimate Relationship?

It’s safe to say that most people want to experience romantic love.  Yet, for some reason, many marriages that start with love will end in divorce.  That’s not counting the amount of relationships that start and end on a dead end street.  How can so many people claim to want the same thing yet be unable to find it? 

Perhaps it’s our

The Ugly Truth About Why Men Don’t Communicate

Do You Know How to Transform Your Intimate Relationship into a Partnership?

What is a partnership?  While there are many definitions, including a business partnership, I will take one from Merriam-Webster.  It says “a relationship resembling a legal partnership and usually involving close cooperation between parties having specified and joint rights and responsibilities”.  It also says “an arrangement in which people engage in an activity or business with one another or share something with each other”.  In other words, partnership requires a

Does a Man Win or Lose When He Chooses to Be a Player?

Here’s Why Your Love Relationship Won’t Turn into a Powerful Partnership

In the 21st Century, many singles claim they want a partnership with someone special.  Yet, that reality seems to evade them.  While some may say the definition of partnership is up to the individual couple, it doesn’t matter how you define it if

Will the “Me Too” Movement Backfire on Women?

Throughout history, there have been a number of good intentions that have gone bad.  In the simplest form, the Good Samaritan helps someone and gets robbed.  In other cases, extreme police force has been used to stop crime in places like Washington, DC and the Bronx, NY.  In both cases, the crime rate increased.  The use of punishment to

Has the “Me Too” Movement Become Bad for Society?

According to Wikipedia: the “Me Too” movement (or #MeToo movement), with a large variety of local and international alternative names, is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. The campaign – sparked by civil rights activist Tarana Burke – began back in 2006.

The movement has since

How Does a Woman Get a Man to Marry Her?

Many women believe it’s the man’s job to chase her.  Yet, many of those same women never find themselves walking down the aisle of holy matrimony.  Why is that?  Being chased does not mean the man wants to marry you.  While you may be extremely attractive, well educated and gainfully employed, that

Here’s Why Women Don’t Understand Men

Should Women Have to “Seal the Marriage Deal”?

When people think of marriage, they think of a man first proposing to a woman.  However, the question that is rarely asked is: why did he choose that woman?  In the US, there are more women than men.  Therefore, technically speaking a man has more options for marriage than women do.  Yet, he narrows it down to one.  Why did he choose?

This question is important because more and more women find

If “All” Men Cheat, Why Not Allow Them to Have a Second Woman?

This past Sunday on Straight Talk, with Ted Santos & Blair Nash, we had an extremely provocative discussion about s-e-x.  And we went places no man has gone before, at least not alone.  We explored underlying reasons for infidelity by men.  As the callers engaged us, we looked at culture, communication and sexual proclivities.  That opened the door to: Are Men

Are Men Afraid to Say Why They Cheat?

Is cheating ever justified?  If you listen to the cheater, they will attempt to present a full proof case for why they cheated.  Yet, for some reason, the infidelity was preceded by lies and deception.  If the case was full proof, why would you need to lie?

For decades, we men have