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Dirty and Thirty – How to Find an Emotional Connection

Posted on December 3, 2012 in Media Buzz |

by Paul N. Weinberg

In my post titled Why Women Hang In There With the Wrong Guys, I examined many of the reasons women stay in a relationship with the wrong guy.

What I left out is that the real reason women hang in there is that they can’t quite put their finger on the one thing that’s missing, which represents the best reason to leave the relationship.

Almost without exception, what’s missing is that they have no emotional connection with the guy. And as I explained in my post titled Emotional Awakenings, women don’t realize this because they’re often not yet aware of their own emotional needs, and how important an emotional connection is to sustaining a long-term relationship.

So once you wake up and figure out what your emotional needs are, or simply that you have emotional needs, how do you find an emotional connection?

First, don’t look for the perfect guy because there’s no such thing as the perfect guy. Look instead for someone who is perfect for you.

Second, consider all the qualities and qualifications that would fit on a résumé. And then forget about them. Because an emotional connection is what you feel, not what you think, and certainly not what fits on a piece of paper.

Third, learn to trust your gut reaction, your first instinct, what Malcolm Gladwell calls your blink response. Many women ignore it, cloud it with their thoughts, and then start to doubt it.

Fourth, don’t confuse sexual chemistry with an emotional connection. A sexual connection can certainly start your relationship off with a bang – no pun intended – but it doesn’t necessarily lead to an emotional connection.

Finally, realize that you don’t “date your way” into an emotional connection. It’s either there or it’s not, and if you don’t feel it on the first or second date, going on five or ten or fifty more dates won’t change that.

Personally, I’ve never dated my way into an emotional connection with a woman. I’ve always felt the connection almost instantly, and every one of my long-term relationships started the first night we were together. By contrast, many women hope that “feelings will develop” or the emotional connection will “develop over time.”

But think about all the times you really clicked with someone and ended up together. It probably happened almost immediately for you as well.

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