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3 Things That Win a Woman Over Every Time
You’ve seen the average guy with the hot woman and wondered, “Why is she with him?” And you probably envied him and thought, “Now why can’t that be me?!” News flash to all...
How Nice Are the “Nice Guys” of OkCupid?
By now, everyone has probably seen the Nice Guys of OkCupid. If you haven’t, here’s the premise: Someone thought it would be funny to post pictures of unattractive, socially awkward men from...
The Dating Red Flag
You’re dating a woman. Everything seems perfect. You start confessing how you feel. She tells you about how much you mean to her. She says all the right things. You reach out to her when she...
5 Signs You May Have An Online Dating Addiction
As great as online dating can be, there is also something mentally unhealthy about the process. Unleashing attractive men into a forum where they arrange an endless stream of dates is like unleashing...
How to Know Your First Date Went Well
“Did my first date go well?” It’s one of the most common questions I get while working with The Art of Charm. It’s an important question. A first date sets the tone for an entire relationship....
What to Do After the First Date [Video]
Do you know how to keep your relationship alive after the first date? Adam Lyons shares 3 factors that are important if you want to see her again.
How to Guarantee Sex
So you’re dating this woman. She’s hot. You haven’t screwed up yet. You’re actually on date number three. Then the urban rumors come into play. Your friends start getting into...
5 Reasons She’s Not Out of Your League
It’s a common saying these days. All your friends are whispering it in your ear: “She’s out of your league.” My first advice is not to hang out with these discouraging friends of yours....
Is Your Profile Built to Attract Women?
Writing an online dating profile isn’t exactly the most exciting thing in the world. With an endless stream of women signing online every minute, most of us would rather jump straight into the...
3 Magic Texts to Make Her Want to See You Tomorrow
I’m curious about something. If you had a winning lottery ticket in your hands, would you give yourself a pat on the back or go cash the sucker? Unless you’re an idiot, you’d want to...
7 Biggest Mistakes Men Make When Meeting an Online Date
Online dating is one of the best ways to meet women. You always have an endless supply of women who are looking for love. In order to be successful at online dating, however, you need to avoid these...
3 Mistakes Guys Make Early On in a Relationship
In the early stages of a relationship, you may feel a mixture of emotions, ranging from extreme highs like excitement, anticipation and thrill, to extreme lows like insecurity and uncertainty. Being...
Are You a “Got to Be” Dater?
We have become a society full of “gottabes.” “I’ve got to be this, I’ve got to be that…” People who have this mindset have been going out and dating based on validation,...
Why I Stay Home on Saturday Nights
Think about that for a second: Is being alone on a Saturday night really that bad? Actually, it’s really one of my favorite nights, and I am going to explain why. The typical Saturday night is...
How Long Should We Wait Before Having Sex?
It seems to be the biggest dilemma in dating today. With no hard-and-fast social rules, men and women are on their own to determine when is the best time to introduce a physical component to their...
How to Date a Woman Who’s Out of Your League
You don’t have to be rich or famous to date a woman who is totally out of your league. We’ve all seen the short, chubby bald guy with the trophy girlfriend and wondered what he was doing right....
How to Get the Online Response You Want
Getting someone to give you the response you’re looking for is a difficult task. Throughout life, day in and day out, you ask questions and seek answers from friends, family, co-workers and your...
2 Ways for Men to Find Love in the Fall
The season for summer love is over, and unless you want to spend winter’s long, cold months alone, you better get started looking for love now. Thankfully, fall is filled with plenty of great...
How to Tell a Senior Woman You Want to Be Exclusive
That “fear of commitment” you probably felt as a younger man has been replaced by a warm confidence and perhaps even some excitement about getting emotionally involved with that fabulous mature...
How to Have a Skype Date
The tagline for Skype is “doing things together, whenever you’re apart.” Sounds like a great concept when it comes to paying a visit to your grandma in Minnesota (without hopping on a plane) or...
2 Workouts for a Date-Ready Body
To enjoy a happy, fruitful dating life, you need to maintain an attractive, athletic body. Yeah, I know this sounds shallow. And yes, I’m sure you can cite a few exceptions to this rule. But the...
How to Improve Your Marriage
Let’s face it, guys. Sometimes it feels like a success when we can have a conversation of three sentences with the wife without it turning into an argument. Needless to say, that’s not optimal. I...
How to Avoid Temptation When You Have a Girlfriend
Young men spend most of their time looking for ways to find and mingle with temptation and will do just about anything to get lucky with a pretty girl. So, if you’re looking for ways to avoid...
How to Screen Women’s Profiles
In short, screening is the investigation of a great number of something looking for those with a particular problem or feature. When it comes to the world of online dating, a “great number of...
What Turns Women On?
Author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer Ian Fleming once said, “Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.” Fleming is the creator of spy James Bond and...
How to Prepare Yourself for Marriage
Marriage is the most important step you will take in your life, even more important and binding than your career choice. The partner you choose is immensely important, but the way you approach the...
Sexting: The Risks, Consequences and Rules
If you didn’t know what sexting was before Anthony Weiner tweeted a picture of his, um, wiener to a young woman, you probably do now. Simply stated, sexting is sexual texting. It usually consists of...
Are Men Picky Daters?
We like to entertain the cultural belief that men are anything but picky daters and are ready, willing and able to sleep with every woman they meet. But is this “horndog” viewpoint...
How to Choose a Restaurant for a First Date
American chef and food writer James Beard once said, “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” Put simply, everyone eats. And for something like a first date where food is the...
How to Read Her Body Language
According to Jeremy Nicholson, M.S.W., Ph.D., in a blog post titled “Reading Basic Body Language for Dating and Persuasion Success” (Psychology Today), there are certain cues to look for...
Is it Ever OK to Lie to Your Girlfriend?
We view it as a cancer, an element from the dark side or a treacherous evil that gnaws away at the trust and decency that binds a couple together. Lying is not something that is considered to be good...
7 Red Flags That Warn You She’s No Good
Even nature’s most perfect creation — women — can take you to the depths of hell if you latch onto a bad one. Psycho women, gold diggers and opportunists are among the devil’s disciples that...
Should Men Listen to Their Friends’ Dating Advice?
Every man regularly encounters dating questions he needs answered, but few men know where to turn to have their queries settled. Faced with making a difficult decision on their own, discovering an...
How Much Should You Post About Your Relationship?
Like it or not, social media is undeniably here to stay. Be it Facebook or Twitter, most of our relationships are and will continue to be somewhat broadcast into the public spectrum. Sometimes it’s...
How Men Can Overcome Jealousy
Jealousy is one of the most destructive forces that can come into play in a relationship, and it is one of the major reasons a woman will choose to dump her guy. A teaspoon of jealousy may demonstrate...
How to Make Love
The word “sex” brings a lot of images to mind. Some of them raunchy, others from sixth grade health class, and maybe some from that HBO show that taught a generation what Furries are. A...
Why Women Lie
Has your girlfriend or wife ever lied to you? What was it about? Was it something silly like her age or weight? Or did it bear more serious implications of a break of trust such as adultery or a...
Texts Guys Should Never Send
Like it or not, texting is here to stay, so you better learn the standard rules of texting etiquette, especially when it comes to texting with the special woman in your life. Most importantly, you...
Bad First Date Ideas
Guys, when it comes to planning a first date, heed my warning: You better get it right or you might cancel any hope of getting a second date. Planning a great first date can be a tricky proposition if...
Long-Distance Dating: When to Stay Overnight
So, you met her online but she lives a few hours down the road? Or, maybe you reunited with a high school crush on Facebook, and she would really like to get to know you better now but moved to the...
The Pros and Cons of Living with Your Girlfriend
While there are many conservatives who completely disagree with a man and a woman living together before marriage, I am not one of them. I believe living together before marriage is a must as part of...
How to Deal with an Ex Dating Your Friend
It doesn’t matter how you may have parted ways. You can never walk away from a close relationship in one whole piece. Whether you leave on good terms, bad terms, as the one who got dumped or the one...
How to Get Over a Girl You Still Like
Have you recently ended things with a girl whom you still experience deep feelings for? If so, you’re sitting in a difficult position. Part of you wants to hold on to these feelings forever, while...
5 Dates Women Love
Guys, if you’ve met someone new, or you’re in a long-term relationship and are looking for some great date ideas to spice things up a bit, then it’s time to get creative. Typically, women look...
11 Phrases Women Love to Hear
When it comes to dating a woman, conversation rules the nation. This is because most of the value a woman places on a relationship — romantic or otherwise — is based on her ability to exchange...
Why Women Like When Men Initiate Sex
Let’s be honest, nobody actually enjoys being rejected. Throughout history, man has assumed the role of pursuer and women, the more sensitive of the sexes, has accepted it. This puts the guy’s...
How to Pick Up Girls at a Bar
The law of averages not only applies to sales tactics. It also works in the confines of a dimly-lit bar with a dirty floor, which means if you talk to enough women in one night, eventually you will...
How to Flirt with Women
For most of us, flirting isn’t easy. No matter how many episodes of VH1′s “The Pickup Artist” you’ve seen, it’s easy to lose confidence when things don’t go as...
How to Play Hard to Get
Playing hard to get reminds me of a game of tag — you’re “it” and you spend the whole time on the playground running after people who are running away from you. That was one of those games...
How to Deal with a Breakup
Nursing a broken heart is a difficult but inevitable challenge. Some cope through the use of drugs, alcohol, destructive behavior, or even suicide, but there are good and healthy ways to deal with a...
Why Searching for Miss Right Keeps You from Finding Love
Guys all have checklists for their ideal woman, but, more often than not, it can actually keep us from finding true love. After all, a girl with Olivia Wilde’s face, Salma Hayek’s breasts, and...
The Best Pickup Line and Why You Should Learn It
Pickup lines have a bad reputation and with good reason. Not only have men come up with some of the most obnoxious, bizarre or downright mean-spirited icebreakers in existence, but the best pickup...
Do Girls Really Like Bad Boys?
Throughout history, famous bad boys have become objects of lust for women all over the world. Young film icon James Dean, vampire Eric Northman (a.k.a. Alexander Skarsgard) of “True Blood,” actors...
How to Approach Women at the Gym
Meeting women at the gym can be a sticky situation — pun intended. Most women at the gym are hot and sweaty and their thighs stick to the seat of the stationary bike when they try to get up, which...
What Men Need to Know Before Joining a Dating Site
What does it take to succeed at online dating? Do you need to have a couple million dollars in the bank? Do you need to be 6 feet 4 inches tall with washboard abs? Do you need to have an incredible...
How to Flirt Online
Flirting is a delicate skill to learn. You don’t want to come on too strong or too creepy or downright desperate. Flirting takes finesse and anticipation. You want to lightly touch her hand, smile...
How Online Dating Works for Men
If you’re like most men, online dating comes across as something of a mystery, a game whose rules seem arbitrary and often unfair. In fact, you probably feel online dating is just like gambling,...
Can You Have a Great Relationship Without Great Sex?
Sex is like rain. When you’re in a drought, it’s hard to think of anything else, and when a gentle rain falls every night, we don’t give it a second thought. When everything is in balance, we...
How to Know You’re a Rebound
At first glance, a rebound relationship is an alluring alternative to heartbreak. Blinded by the pain of rejection, women around the world are guilty of latching onto the first male passer-by in a...
What to Get Your Girlfriend’s Mom for Mother’s Day
When you’re in a relatively new relationship and a holiday shows up, it’s difficult to know the proper etiquette to follow. For example, say Valentine’s Day is next week and you’ve only been...
4 Lame Breakup Excuses Women Use
Dealing with a breakup is one of life’s most difficult challenges. When a relationship ends, life takes on a depressing tone, especially if you’re on the receiving end of the news that your...
How to Know You’re in Love
Love may be wonderful, but it is also slippery to define and difficult to identify with any assurance. A man can feel like he’s fallen in love with a woman the moment he sees her, and then not want...
Learn from Her Social Network Footprint
These days, women are very careful about the impression they give off on social networking sites like Facebook, and you can learn a ton about who she is as a person based on her profile picture. So...
5 Ways Men Can Be More Romantic
Good ol’ Lisa Simpson, that misanthropic doomsayer of a cartoon girl, once said, “Romance is dead — it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized and sold off...
3 Reasons Why Your Friends Don’t Like Your Girlfriend
We will never know if Yoko Ono really caused the breakup of the Beatles. However, there can be no denying that a new girlfriend will change the whole dynamic of our lives and our relationships with...
How to Tell a Woman You Want to Be Exclusive
There’s a reason so many people, men and women alike, refer to the world of dating as a “game.” When it comes to relationships, there are countless rules to follow, strategies to develop and...
Why She Hasn’t Called
In the world of dating, sometimes we meet someone we click with immediately. We feel a passion so intense that we never want it to fade. Other times, we find ourselves asking one of the most...
How to Get a Shy Woman to Initiate
There are a lot of women who struggle with being shy and wish they could be more outgoing. They find it almost impossible to do away with their perpetually bashful disposition, however, and often...
How to Get a Girl’s Attention Online
The Internet is a fast-paced virtual world where you have seconds to grab a person’s attention. Pop-up ads, music videos, blog posts and the like are all a dime a dozen. Online dating is no...
What Her Profile Picture Says About Her
Internet dating can be quite perplexing. On the one hand, surfing the Web for the woman of your dreams is easy and convenient. You’re able to sift through dozens of profiles at your leisure and gain...
3 Tips for Dating a Girl with a lot of Male Friends
You meet a girl and you’re totally smitten with her. She’s incredible. She loves going to baseball games, drinks beer out of a can and takes less than half an hour to get ready — and still looks...
How to Discuss Dating Histories
Your dating history is important. Your past relationships with women say a lot about who you were, who you now are, and how your future relationships will likely proceed. Not only is it wise for men...
The Do’s and Don’ts for Impressing Her Friends
You’ve won her heart, and your private time together is amazing. But there is still one more hurdle you need to clear before you can really become a fixture in her life. Even more than winning over...
Will Women Judge You Based on Your Facebook Account?
Facebook is a strange beast. Even though it often feels like Facebook has been around forever, it’s important to note the social networking giant is less than a decade old and still in its infancy....
How to Tell a Friend You Have Feelings for Her
If you’ve developed feelings for one of your female friends, then you are not alone. At one point or another, every man has gone down this same path, and while your situation seems extremely...
Be Careful How You Unload Your Baggage
She knows you weren’t born yesterday. She loves that you are a man of ample experience in business, sports, music, cooking — whatever your expertise may be. And she is willing to accept you come...
What to Do When You Have Nothing in Common
Tarzan and Jane had little in common on a lifestyle level, but they still found a way to build a pretty darn good life together. More and more often in this age of the modern, empowered woman, we find...
How to Win a Fight with Your Girlfriend
A friend told me the other night that lawyers win arguments because they never ask a question they don’t already know the answer to. That makes a lot of sense, but these are people who spent years...
Finding Women Part I: Chuck the Meat Market
Half the people on the planet are women — so they aren’t hard to find! Why, then, do we make such a big deal about finding them? They’re everywhere! The real question is: Why do we keep going...
5 Cheap (or Super Cheap) Date Ideas
Fellas, it’s the 21st century. But unfortunately for you, there are a lot of women out there who still feel like you should pick up the tab on a date. No matter if she did the asking, makes more...
How to Get Past the Honeymoon Phase
There’s nothing quite as exciting as the first few months of a relationship. From the first time they catch your eye to the realization they feel the same way, it can all seem like a dream. Even...
Dating Modern Women
In your grandfather’s day, finding a woman was a much simpler proposition. If a gal could satisfy your stomach, she could win your heart. Your father might have been part of the “Love...
