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Stop Dating Potential. Start Dating Who They Actually Are.

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Are you dating potential or paying attention to who they are right now? Dating someone’s potential can lead to heartache. Do this instead. Have you ever fallen for someone’s potential instead of who they are right now? You really like them (except for a few small or not so small things), and you start building a fantasy relationship with that imagined future person. You  overlook a few of the very important deal breakers that are showing up today. It feels like you’re just seeing the best in them. But it relies on someone changing instead of what is actually true about them right now, and over time that gap between the imagined future and the actual present is where a lot of relationships fall apart. Here are five common ways that dating someone’s potential shows up so you can prevent heartache in the future. Stop Dating Potential. Start Dating Who They Actually Are. The Fixer-Upper. You excuse inconsistent communication, chronic disorg...
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The Five Lust Languages For Lifelong Erotic Pleasure

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How do you increase erotic pleasure? Practice the five lust languages, says Susan Bratton. Learn more in this episode! — How do you increase erotic pleasure? Practice the five lust languages, says Susan Bratton, “Intimacy Expert to Millions”. She is a champion and advocate for all those who desire intimacy and passion their whole life long. Susan has spent over two decades doing something that censorship and shame have long tried to silence: teaching people the pleasure-based sex education they never received. As CEO of Better Lover, Personal Life Media, and The20, she publishes the world’s most comprehensive library of orgasmic lovemaking education and formulates precision sexual vitality supplements built on the science of blood flow and desire. In this episode: How to turn communication into foreplay The biggest mistakes couples make when giving feedback about intimacy What is the Sexual Soulmate pact? The myth about spontaneous desire ...
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Men Who Waste Your Time Do These Five Things

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Stop dating men who waste your time! Learn how to recognize these 5 signs early on so you can finally go on your last first date. — You’ve felt it before. The conversation that goes nowhere for three weeks. The plans that keep almost happening. The guy who seems interested, then vanishes, then reappears with a “hey beautiful” like no time has passed at all. If you’re dating after 50, you don’t have time to waste, and you know it. You’ve built a life, you know your worth, and you’re looking for a real connection, the kind worth investing your time in. Here’s what I’ve noticed after nearly 20 years of coaching women through this exact frustration: men who waste your time tend to show the same patterns. Once you can name them, you can spot them early on and save yourself the guesswork. 1. They Keep Things Vague Men who waste your time make vague plans. They give vague answers to your direct ...
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How to Reprogram Your Brain to Stop Dating the Wrong People

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How do you stop dating the wrong people? My podcast guest, Misha Saidov, says you need to reprogram your brain. Here’s how! — Stop dating the wrong people! Misha Saidov is a modern philosopher, mystic, entrepreneur, and author focused on personal transformation and human potential. Founder of Institute of Metacognitive Programming, his work has reached 150,000+ people in 93 countries. Blending trauma healing, identity, and meaning with business rigor from roles at Konica Minolta and Phenom People, he helps people break inherited patterns and live with greater clarity, intention, and authenticity. In this episode: Why so many of us keep dating the wrong people What people get wrong about chemistry What is Metacognitive Programming and how does it help people retrain their brains? Why self-awareness is not enough to create lasting change EP 724: Misha Saidov- How to Reprogram Your Brain to Stop Dating the Wrong People Highlights...
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5 Surprising Ways to Turn a Situationship into a Relationship

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Can you turn a situationship into a relationship? Sometimes. Follow these five steps to learn ho w. If you’ve been dating someone for a while but you haven’t yet defined the relationship, you’re probably in a situationship. Maybe you see each other every week. Maybe you’ve met a few of their friends. But if you want to be exclusive and haven’t discussed it yet, you might be feeling anxious or insecure about where you stand. Here’s the good news. Situationships can absolutely turn into committed relationships. It happens more often than you’d think, and it’s not because someone gave an ultimatum. It happens because one person shifted the dynamic in a way that made commitment feel like the natural next step rather than a demand. Here are five surprising ways to make that shift from situationship to relationship. 1. Be direct about how you feel It’s tempting to read into every text and every conver...
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Communication Mistakes that Ruin Relationships (and how to catch them early)

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Did you know that small communication mistakes are quietly ruining your relationship? Here’s how to prevent that from happening. — What are the communication mistakes that ruin relationships? Lior Illouz is the co-founder and CEO of Bonds, a PhD-backed AI relationship app with 10,000+ users, built with his childhood friend, clinical psychologist Dr. Lior Kritzman. A former Meta leader, husband who married at 38, and first-time father, Lior helps people catch the small communication patterns that quietly end relationships before they explode. In this episode: The small communication mistakes that can quietly end relationships The gap between what we say and what we mean and why it grows over time What predicts whether a relationship will last How to spot your communication patterns early on in dating EP 723: Lior Illouz – Communication Mistakes that Ruin Relationships (and how to catch them early) Highlights of this episo...
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Are You Dating from Scarcity or Abundance? 5 Ways to Tell Who’s Driving Your Love Life

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Are you dating from scarcity or abundance? Here are five ways to tell the difference and know who’s driving your love life. If you’ve been dating for a while, especially in midlife, you’ve probably felt the pull of scarcity thinking. It can sound like “there’s no good people left to date” or “I need to lock this down before he loses interest.” Abundance thinking sounds more expansive and hopeful. When you date from a place of abundance, you believe there’s enough love, enough time, and enough good people out there, so you can slow down and make healthier choices. Here are five places where the difference between scarcity and abundance shows up most clearly in real dating situations. Are You Dating from Scarcity or Abundance? 5 Ways to Tell Who’s Driving Your Love Life 1. How do you respond to a slow text reply? Scarcity: A few hours go by without a text back, and your mind runs straigh...
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