I'm swimming in testosterone right now (Sunday afternoon), because there's a hundred pounds of pork ribs in my smoker that is going to feed an army of hungry "good people" shortly, and I smell of hardwood smoke and burning pork fat, which where I live, is a very powerful aphrodisiac! No matter where you live or what your life is like, find a reason to get together with others at least once a month and practice these rituals of cooking over fire, communing and telling stories, all of which have evolved from the ancient hunt. It awakens something primal and wonderful for which there does not seem to be any substitute.
Since everything is looking good in the smoker and it's awhile yet before time to greet family, friends, and neighbors, I sat down to check my e-mail and found a couple of starkly contrasting pieces that screamed out "NEWSLETTER!" So while I usually do this late at night based on some experience of the day, I'm doing it early today while the message is still at the forefront of my mind and easy to share with you.
The first thing I saw was a notice that a reader named Ryan had ended his subscription to this newsletter. Ryan had subscribed eleven days prior, and his comment describing his reason for cancelling read:
"NOTHING OF VALUE"
Just below it was an e-mail from another reader, and I about laughed myself sick when I looked up his subscription date and found that it was the same day, and he submitted the following:
Hello David,
Thank you! Your book is awesome! All of your readers of your daily email should sack up and buy your book. Sometimes that macho crap gets in the way and we limit ourselves from learning more about the women in our lives. We do often think that we should naturally know everything....after reading your book I knew that I didn't know much!
My marriage came to an end a while ago and my ex was always turning to "relationship experts" like Dr Phil and John Gray just to name a couple. Yes being the good man (or trying to) I read their books. Although they had some interesting ideas, none of them had an impact on me the way your book did.
I have been in a new relationship with a woman now for about a year. I did not want this relationship to turn sour like all the other ones so I decided to be proactive and read your book. WOW! Over the past couple of weeks since I bought your book, I started to take control and the results have been amazing. I have not had a problem with self confidence or had a problem attracting women through out my life, but after a while things would always change. I could not sustain the attraction. This woman is amazing and I did not want to sabotage this one too. Your book is the bomb dude and I will direct as much attention to you as I can!
One of my buddies asked me this weekend why I was so happy and I told him I wish that he could feel for 5 minutes what I feel everyday now. My beautiful woman is into me like no one's business and looks at me in a way where I feel her love, even when we are not together. After almost a year we are more in love today than ever before. Thank you David for doing what the so-called "relationship experts" could not.
Rock on Dude,
Mike
P.S. By the way...I packed her stuff up and we went for a picnic this weekend when she got home from work. The results are too X-rated to put here...lol. Later!
(The picnic Mike refers to in the post script is a surprise outing I describe in the "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," wherein after you have learned how to read your partner and pay attention to the little things about her, like what she never leaves the house without on a day trip, weekender, etc., you come home a little early from work or send her off on an errand so you can have the house to yourself for an hour or so and prepare a picnic, day trip, weekend outing, etc. - just any kind of surprise trip to shake things up and give her a break from routine. It's a wonderful exercise in attraction-building and adventure that every woman appreciates.)
The stark contrast in the findings and underlying attitudes of these two readers is stark and significant. One was looking for answers and found them, and I'm still trying to figure out what the other one was looking for, but it took them exactly the same length of time to report their findings; my e-mail is updated every three minutes and these two came in together.
I'm hyper-analytical. You could probably count the original thoughts I've had in my life on both hands and a foot, but I can extract the cause and effect relationships from any situation quickly and accurately, and it's painfully automatic. Everything I see or hear first causes me to visualize, then analyze, then look for parallels once the cause and effect is known and logical deductions and projections that can be made from them. (That's why you never find opinion or theory in my newsletters or books!)
When these letters hit me, the first big question was, "what else do men miss because they aren't looking for it, or are looking somewhere besides at their partners to find it?"
Think about that. Is there something that you wish you and your partner shared, or could share or do together, that you have just assumed she wouldn't be interested in or do? Are you right now or have you recently made the mistake of involving others in the problems of your life or relationship because you assume that your partner won't want to discuss it, or resolve it?
Do you have any idea how many missed opportunities to deepen and improve your relationship and your life occur as a result of that? Or how many affairs are started because of that? How many misunderstandings it generates?
Don't be like Ryan. If there's something lacking at home, don't go outside to find it (and if you do decide to go outside your marriage, end it first) before making absolutely sure that it's not sitting there undiscovered right under your nose at home. Talk to your partner, and listen - or are you able?
I'll go to my grave preaching this sermon. Effective inter-gender communication is not something that we are born well-suited to even do, let alone succeed at. It is a skill that must be developed, not a talent determined by a gene. For those of you who have seen the "Men State, Women Negotiate" excerpt from "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage" in my free "Break-Up Busting 101" report, you know that as complex as it all seems, it pretty much boils down to the ruthless exercise of three simple rules that anybody can follow.
The question is "What are you looking for?" which begs the other question, "What is motivating you to look for anything?" Are you like Ryan, maybe looking for justification for your past mistakes so that you can blame somebody else for leaving you, or are you like Mike, realizing that you wouldn't be reading this if everything was perfect, and that something that appears logical, people are using with success, and is guaranteed to work is worth a try, and therefore taking action and getting outstanding results?
Only you can make that choice, and I dare say that it is inevitable that you will be held accountable for it, if by nothing else, the state of your own life and that of your family's, so choose well...
I don't want to get too carried away with coincidences, but if you want to be "like Mike" (to those of you who saw the movie, I swear that's his real name!), just do what he did. Jump over to http://www.makingherhappy.com and download your own copy of "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," and get busy. It took him 11 days to write that letter. How quickly can you turn your life and relationship around?
In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!
David Cunningham"Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham
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