An odd chain of events and the resulting train of thought have provided something that many of you will find useful: EXAMPLES of the man women find most irresistible, and how to make sure she sees him!
Today has been an unusual day to say the least. I post this newsletter for broadcast at 8:00AM Eastern time every morning because that's when statistics say it is most likely to be read by the most people, but as many of you know, it is composed at least one day prior to broadcast. (Those of you who want an early jump can always check my blog at http://blog.makingherhappy.com because it gets posted there as soon as it's finished, often 12 hours or more ahead of the e-mail broadcast!)
I mention that so that the following comment makes sense: I've been at my computer for eleven hours straight answering reader e-mails! That's not necessarily odd, but their polarization certainly has been. The gross majority of them have been questions about attraction, especially what a woman needs to see for it to be triggered, especially if it has been lost and the man is trying to recreate it.
There are a few of my newsletter lesson editions that always receive abnormally high reader response. I retransmit them every few months because most people just don't have the time to browse the newsletter archive and it's easier for them to see the best-received lessons if I send them out quarterly or semi-annually, but I don't use or even have boilerplate responses to reader e-mails or questions. While many of them have common elements, each situation is different and requires a personal response, so can you imagine what focusing on the same subject that intensely for eleven hours might produce?
This came after I was asked today by a blind man how he might project a more attractive image to his wife, who had grown a bit frustrated with his borrowing of her eyes, and he confessed that he had been asking her to do things that he did himself when he was alone. I reminded him that instead of feeling and acting dependent, he should feel and act heroic, relating to him a flood of stories that came to mind about athletes who had lost legs and ran races on their prostheses, and Def Leppard's drummer who lost an arm and instead of retiring, re-engineered his setup and retrained himself to play as well as he had before with only one arm and his feet.
Then came the first revelation: men with this heroic, leader's attitude that women find so irresistibly attractive don't do things to prove that they can, they do them simply BECAUSE they can and want to. They live to IMPROVE, not to PROVE. They literally define authority at the most basic level; they don't care what anybody thinks of them or their achievements. They achieve because it suits them to do so, because it MAKES them a better man, not because it makes them APPEAR as a better man. There is no form of authority, role model, or leadership higher than that.
I tripped over another great example in that same letter. In trying to explain the hero's attitude and how he could continue to "borrow his wife's sight," but in a way she found attractive instead of a way that made her feel like his keeper, I said (paraphrased), "Assuming that you lost your sight and have a sufficient frame of reference to remember a sunset, there is a big difference between saying to your wife, 'I wish I could see a sunset' and saying, "I want to see the sunset. Describe it to me so that I may enjoy it with you.'"
That differentiation has universal application, Gentlemen. You can feel sorry for your shortcomings and complain, or you can work around them and live your life. That's what being a man, and for that matter being human, is about, and that, more than anything else, is what women find attractive in a man, because it is that attitude that makes everything else work.
A secondary theme that kept reappearing was regaining trust after a bad period in a relationship. Yes, attraction is dead at this point, but there is also a wall up, and while attraction is an automatic thing, it can be not resisted, but confounded, when there are trust issues. A woman needs to feel "safe" in letting you into a position where you can significantly influence her emotions, and while you are making these improvements that will reignite attraction, you also need to radically improving your communication skills. Why?
Because that's where women gain trust, through the intimacy of talking and being heard. It's how they commune. We men commune primarily by sharing acts of achievement or crisis and getting through them, while women commune by talking about their experiences, especially the emotions of their experiences. We DO, they TALK and then do if something needs done.
When a woman feels you aren't listening or understanding her, or especially that you don't care about her feelings, that connection cannot be made, let alone made strong enough to let her tear down that wall and let you back in. Luckily for you, as complex as it seems, the whole communications issue boils down to three simple rules that you can learn in minutes and master over a period of days, not decades. And those rules are in my book, of course! ;-)
So there it is, Gents: the product of eleven hours of answering the questions of troubled men wanting to put their relationship back in working order. Use it in good health. And if you're ready to rise to the challenge of putting your house back in order, go to http://www.makingherhappy.com and download your copy of "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," right now, while it's still there to be had and correcting your problems is easier than it will be months down the road when you have much more to correct and much more pain to heal.
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
Today has been an unusual day to say the least. I post this newsletter for broadcast at 8:00AM Eastern time every morning because that's when statistics say it is most likely to be read by the most people, but as many of you know, it is composed at least one day prior to broadcast. (Those of you who want an early jump can always check my blog at http://blog.makingherhappy.com because it gets posted there as soon as it's finished, often 12 hours or more ahead of the e-mail broadcast!)
I mention that so that the following comment makes sense: I've been at my computer for eleven hours straight answering reader e-mails! That's not necessarily odd, but their polarization certainly has been. The gross majority of them have been questions about attraction, especially what a woman needs to see for it to be triggered, especially if it has been lost and the man is trying to recreate it.
There are a few of my newsletter lesson editions that always receive abnormally high reader response. I retransmit them every few months because most people just don't have the time to browse the newsletter archive and it's easier for them to see the best-received lessons if I send them out quarterly or semi-annually, but I don't use or even have boilerplate responses to reader e-mails or questions. While many of them have common elements, each situation is different and requires a personal response, so can you imagine what focusing on the same subject that intensely for eleven hours might produce?
This came after I was asked today by a blind man how he might project a more attractive image to his wife, who had grown a bit frustrated with his borrowing of her eyes, and he confessed that he had been asking her to do things that he did himself when he was alone. I reminded him that instead of feeling and acting dependent, he should feel and act heroic, relating to him a flood of stories that came to mind about athletes who had lost legs and ran races on their prostheses, and Def Leppard's drummer who lost an arm and instead of retiring, re-engineered his setup and retrained himself to play as well as he had before with only one arm and his feet.
Then came the first revelation: men with this heroic, leader's attitude that women find so irresistibly attractive don't do things to prove that they can, they do them simply BECAUSE they can and want to. They live to IMPROVE, not to PROVE. They literally define authority at the most basic level; they don't care what anybody thinks of them or their achievements. They achieve because it suits them to do so, because it MAKES them a better man, not because it makes them APPEAR as a better man. There is no form of authority, role model, or leadership higher than that.
I tripped over another great example in that same letter. In trying to explain the hero's attitude and how he could continue to "borrow his wife's sight," but in a way she found attractive instead of a way that made her feel like his keeper, I said (paraphrased), "Assuming that you lost your sight and have a sufficient frame of reference to remember a sunset, there is a big difference between saying to your wife, 'I wish I could see a sunset' and saying, "I want to see the sunset. Describe it to me so that I may enjoy it with you.'"
That differentiation has universal application, Gentlemen. You can feel sorry for your shortcomings and complain, or you can work around them and live your life. That's what being a man, and for that matter being human, is about, and that, more than anything else, is what women find attractive in a man, because it is that attitude that makes everything else work.
A secondary theme that kept reappearing was regaining trust after a bad period in a relationship. Yes, attraction is dead at this point, but there is also a wall up, and while attraction is an automatic thing, it can be not resisted, but confounded, when there are trust issues. A woman needs to feel "safe" in letting you into a position where you can significantly influence her emotions, and while you are making these improvements that will reignite attraction, you also need to radically improving your communication skills. Why?
Because that's where women gain trust, through the intimacy of talking and being heard. It's how they commune. We men commune primarily by sharing acts of achievement or crisis and getting through them, while women commune by talking about their experiences, especially the emotions of their experiences. We DO, they TALK and then do if something needs done.
When a woman feels you aren't listening or understanding her, or especially that you don't care about her feelings, that connection cannot be made, let alone made strong enough to let her tear down that wall and let you back in. Luckily for you, as complex as it seems, the whole communications issue boils down to three simple rules that you can learn in minutes and master over a period of days, not decades. And those rules are in my book, of course! ;-)
So there it is, Gents: the product of eleven hours of answering the questions of troubled men wanting to put their relationship back in working order. Use it in good health. And if you're ready to rise to the challenge of putting your house back in order, go to http://www.makingherhappy.com and download your copy of "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," right now, while it's still there to be had and correcting your problems is easier than it will be months down the road when you have much more to correct and much more pain to heal.
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
