• On Setting Boundaries of Needy Men and Non-needy Men

    Unconditional honesty can be brutal and scathing at times. Therefore, boundaries shall be set. Delivering honesty unconditionally isn't about compliments and appreciation. When you're willing to tell a woman what you will and will not tolerate in your life, this sub-communicates the most powerful elements of attraction to her, far more powerful than an entertaining story or game.
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  • Vulnerability and Honesty Can't be Faked

    The truth is always shining through. You can’t fake vulnerability and you can’t fake honesty. By their very definition, it's impossible. Men's dating advice gives women very little credit when it comes to this. Women are generally quite intuitive to emotions, motivations, and social cues. We may think we’re clever when we come up with a cute line to approach a woman with, thi
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  • Accepting Vulnerability Is a Pain Period

    The more you’ve bottled up your emotions throughout your life, the more painful these actions are going to be. As vulnerability researcher Brene Brown says, “the less you talk about your shame, the more of it you have.”Practicing vulnerability is a pain periodWhen undertaking any emotional shift or change in behavior, there's going to be an initial “pain period”. The pain perio
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  • What Vulnerability Really Means?

    Normally, most men will associate vulnerability with weakness. In general, due to any kinds of reasons - maybe our home situation, maybe childhood trauma, maybe our lack of expression of emotions of our parents, men are raised to withhold their emotions, to show weakness and to ignore any hint of introspection. Moreover, most of the popular dating advice encourages guys to be aloof, stan
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  • Key to Non-neediness - Respect

    The only permanent way to attract and date more women and more attractive women is to become more attractive yourself. And the way a man becomes more attractive himself is by investing in himself, in becoming less needy. Permanent change to one’s investment and neediness in one’s relationships with women is hard and is a process that encompasses all facets of one’ life. But it’s
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  • On Narcissism and Overcompensation

    When a man has spent his entire life needy and highly invested, doing the legitimate work to transform himself into a confident, attractive man is not easy. To become non-needy, a man must develop self-respect, a healthy sense of boundaries, social competence and healthy life habits. It's often a painful long-term process that entails quite a bit of introspection, questioning, doubt,
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  • What Makes Women Really Seduced to A Man? - Story of Daniel & Stacy

    Because men value sex more than women at the beginning of a relationship, and sexual opportunities are scarcer for men than women, women tend to be less invested and more confident early in on the interaction. When a man approaches her and induces her to become as invested in him as he is in her, this is the process of seduction. Sex occurs as a natural side effect of this process. Seduc
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  • What Makes Women Really Seduced to A Man? - Story of Ryan & Jane

    Love involves a seduction process and in this process, there is always something of a man make a woman attracted to. What makes women really attracted to a man? Let's see an example of seduction-story of Ryan and Jan, and look at the various factors going on in each one from a neediness point of view.Story of Ryan and JaneWhen Ryan was in college, he was a leading member of his fraternit
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  • Are you Needy James or Non-needy Jeff?

    In real life of a relationship, different kinds of people behave quite differently. A needy man is quite different from a non-needy man. But actually how they behaves in a relationship? Hereby, examples of needy James and non-needy Jeff are given. Will you reflect yourself to see whether you are needy James or non-needy Jeff?James is a nice guy. But he tends to be needy in his relationship
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  • How neediness and non-neediness affects men and women?

    Dating back to human historyFor the majority of human history, men had few material possessions by which women would judge their status. Back in the caveman days, there were no out-door pools and tax returns. They didn’t have brand name sandals and expensive haircuts. At most, one man had a little bit more meat to share than the next guy.Therefore, for the majority of human history, wome
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