EXACTLY HOW TO WIN A MAN'S HEART FOREVER
Maybe you’re with a guy and he’s just not committing to you. Maybe you’ve had trouble finding lasting commitment in the past.
Maybe you just want to know what it takes to win a man’s heart, so that he doesn’t think of anyone besides you.
The truth is, if you’ve had a history of not being able to get a man to commit and lock you down, chances are you’re looking at it the wrong way.
The truth is, it takes two really simple ingredients in order to win a man’s heart and have him want to be with you forever.
The ingredients to a stable, lasting relationship, where you ‘win’ a man’s heart and are long term committed to being in love with each other are:
1. Self-respect and
2. Compatibility.
First, let’s cover self-respect: If you’re with a guy who’s not committing to you, and you’re committed to him, like you’re already in a long term relationship with him – you’re giving up your self-respect.
You’re putting yourself in the position of begging him to be with you long term.
In that position, you have nothing to offer him more than what you’re already giving him – your love and devotion and exclusivity.
If he’s not going to reciprocate with the same amount of interest, exclusivity, and commitment that you do, then you’re offering your love and your commitment for free.
And when you give someone something for free, it unconsciously makes them value it less. This isn’t something that can be argued or bargained away – it’s human psychology.
If you want him to value you, if you want him to commit to you, if you want to win him…
Then you have to match his level of commitment exactly with your own.
What I mean by that is that if he’s not exclusively committing to you, then you’re not exclusively committing to him either.
If he’s not ruling out seeing other people, then neither are you.
I’m not saying to go out and hook up with a bunch of guys right away, but what I am saying is that you should be open to going out on dates with guys you’re interested in. (And you should be open to becoming interested in new guys).
You can make it clear to him that you’re not holding him to any standard that he’s not holding you to – so if he wants to be free to see other people then you’re fine with that – and you’re also free to see other people.
At this point, one of two things will happen. Either:
1. He will explicitly ‘lock you down’ and enter a committed relationship with you.
Or,
2. He won’t, and he’ll be ok with you dating other guys.
I know it doesn’t seem this way at first blush, but either way that plays out, you win.
Either he freaks out about the idea of losing you and locks you down, committing himself to you, which gives you what you want.
Or, he doesn’t, and is fine with losing you if you meet another guy. If that’s the way he feels, nothing you could have said or done would have made him want a committed relationship with you.
At least this way, you find out that he wasn’t going to want to commit to you right now, so that you don’t have to spend months (or years) waiting fruitlessly for him to come around. Usually, I can tell you that when a guy realizes he can lose the woman he’s with, it immediately makes him step up. That’s because it triggers his natural desire to compete – and when he realizes he can ‘lose’ you that’s when he most wants to ‘win’ you – and that’s how you ‘win’ him.
Next, I want to talk about the second ingredient: compatibility.
Compatibility means that you both feel comfortable around each other. It means you act naturally around each other, without trying to be ‘someone else’ that you think he’ll like, and without wearing a ‘mask’.
It means that you’re free to let your true selves shine around each other, and more than that, it means that it feels good to be with him when he’s being his true self – just like he feels good around you when you’re being your true self.
Good relationships are supposed to feel easy, not hard. It won’t feel like you have to fight for your relationship to exist every day – in fact it will feel like the opposite. You’ll feel natural with him, like you can be your natural self around him. If you feel like you have to change yourself or ‘be someone different’ in order to be the person he wants – that’s not a natural relationship. You’ll feel like you’re fighting yourself every day to be with him, and it will be true. True compatibility with someone is feeling totally comfortable and natural in their presence. It means being able to be your true self (not the person you are at work, or with friends, or out in public), and have that person be totally accepted.
At the same time, true compatibility is him being able to show his true self as well. That’s what I mean about great relationships being ‘easy’ – when you get used to being your true self it’s the easiest thing in the world.
That’s not to say that great relationships don’t take work – they do. But when you can be your honest, natural self around each other, the work doesn’t feel like work. It just feels good to be with him.
The other part of compatibility that’s so important to winning a man is this: when a guy can be his true, natural self around you, and he feels that you accept who he really is, he falls deeply in love with you.
This is one of the most important parts of falling in love, and truly is the ‘key’ to winning a man’s heart. If he feels that you love him and support him at his most fundamental level – i.e. who he really truly is and what he really truly wants to do in the world – you will have won his heart forever.
Guys aren’t stupid. They know that if they find a woman who loves and supports their true self, that’s not a woman to let go of.
When you and your man are ‘moving in the same direction’ in life – meaning you have similar goals and hopes and dreams – and you enjoy each other for who you truly are underneath: that’s the meaning of true compatibility.
And that’s how you have a relationship that lasts, and that’s how you ‘win’ a man’s heart forever.
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