He doesn’t marry a woman who puts him on a throne. He marries a woman who is his equal . . . that special woman whom he can share all of life’s special moments with.
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Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart
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Men want to feel special, and when you are too nice he feels ordinary, because he assumes you’d acquiesce and become a yes-person with any man.
The more control you have over yourself, the more of a hold you will have on his heart.
A guy who really thinks you could be ‘the one’ will say very little about marriage. He’ll be much more reserved, and will slowly open up over the course of several months, because he won’t want to scare you off.
A man will not be thinking about how much he spends on you if he believes you could be ‘the one.’ In the beginning, he will be happy to pick up the tab.
Men admire women who want to elevate themselves and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, and fear women who are social climbers at a man’s expense.
[When you don't respond to him not calling] his imagination will run wild when he doesn’t hear from you.
Once you start doing the same thing he was doing, suddenly, the bad behavior will magically disappear.
When a man tries to make you jealous, it rarely has anything to do with his desire for someone else. When you are upset he gets the reassurance that you care.
When you are easily manipulated, he will assume he doesn’t have to give as much in the way of a commitment in order to keep you there.
Men are intrigued by anything they do not completely control.
Just because a man sleeps with you doesn’t mean he cares about you.
The magic formula is to give a little . . . and then pull back. Give a little . . . and then pull back.
Men love knowing there’s a small part of you that they can’t get to.
Don’t be so blunt, obvious, or available.
There’s nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.
Don’t even mention the word ‘commitment.’ That’s the whole trick. The less you say about it, the closer you are to getting one.
When a woman rushes in too quickly, a man will assume she is in love with a ‘fantasy’ or the idea of having a relationship. But if he has to slowly win her over, incrementally, he’ll think she’s falling in love with who he is.
Your power gets lost the minute you start asking, ‘Where do I stand?’ Because what you’ve just told him is that the terms of the relationship are now his to dictate.
If he doesn’t respect your opinion, he won’t respect you.