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Ever wonder why you can have a great date and men don’t call back? A woman wrote in about a fun date she had with laughter and good conversation, and when she got home, he texted that he didn’t think they were a good match.
What happened? She was perplexed!
In this video, I share three reasons why men don’t call back after a seemingly good date.
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Do you ever feel confused by the men you date? He says one thing, and then he contradicts himself. He plans for a future, but he’s not even available right now! It can make you crazy. Listen as I help Judi decode mixed signals with the man she was dating for 6 months. If you’re confused about what to do when there are mixed signals, you absolutely have to watch this video.
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My podcast guest, Arielle Ford, spoke about how to turn your mate into your soulmate. She is a leading personality in the personal growth and contemporary spirituality movement. For the past 30 years she has been living, teaching, and promoting consciousness through all forms of media. She’s a celebrated love and relationship expert, author, speaker, and is the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love series. Her mission is to help women Find Love, Keep Love and Be Love.
Listen to EP 385: Arielle Ford on How to Turn Your Mate into Your Soulmate
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Happily married for over 30 years, Paige and Don Marrs have achieved extraordinary love. They’ve worked together since the day they joined their lives. They have co-authored two how-to memoirs, both of which teach through story: Grabbing Lightning: The Messy Quest for an Extraordinary Love, and Executive in Passage: When Life Lets You Know It’s Time to Change, Let that Knowing Lead You. For the past decade they’ve offered their relationship program, The Love Conversation®, which teaches core principles and methods for making the quest for love less messy and has helped countless individuals create extraordinary love in their most cherished relationships.
Check out highlights of our podcast interview on Last First Date Radio, EP 384: How to Create Extraordinary Love and Cherished Relationships.
Don: I was going through a difficult time in my career. I felt I had come to the end of the road. I closed my eyes, and I felt myself hurtling down a dark channel. I thought I was going to die, and suddenly, I was surrounded by love. I got vignettes about how many times I avoided love. The thing that keeps us from love is fear. I started a company based on love. I met Paige because she was a client.
Paige: I hired him. About 6 months later, we joined our lives. The quest to love is messy.
Paige: We help clients see that love is their birthright. It’s the human manifestation of something larger. They learn to open to it and become aware of it. A large part of the work is what blocks our experience with love.
Don: Love is different than we think it is. We think it’s a dog, house, we love our husband/wife, and we go on vacation.
When we make love the focus, amazing things happen. It’s a powerful energy that grows when you work out problems.
Paige: One of the characteristics is we are both 150% committed to the fulfillment of the other person. We often hear clients speak of extraordinary love as the honeymoon stage or the fairy tale. There’s a part of the honeymoon phase that’s the gift of love. It’s a low bar to get back to that. It’s just a taste of extraordinary love. Love of one another and love of self grows and deepens and expands with time.
One of the core skills is the ability to face the normal things that come up and deal with them in a way that helps you become more intimate.
Don: We moved in together after 6 months, and we were in rapture. Within a few weeks, she said something that got me. I was a highly defensive man, and what she said sounded like criticism, and I spoke to her sharply. She crumbled, and I stormed out of the house. It reminded me of times in a marriage that had ended for me. The one who held the silence the longest won. I was in such pain, and Paige was different.
She said, “I’m sorry for my part.” I said, “I’m sorry for my part.” We embraced, and we learned we needed to get rid of the things that separate us and flood us. Keep restoring the connection.
Paige: We were committed to living our lives from love instead of fear. That’s where our strength came from. It took us about five years to work through the rough stuff.
One of the things that developed in our relationship is I now know I’m lovable for who I am. I’m trustable for who I am. I am enough. Often when we jab at each other, it comes from a fear of not being lovable or enough.
Don: By being in your heart and trusting there is such a thing as love, you will find it. Someone who’s also looking will recognize you as you have that wonderful gift of generosity and kindness. You allow it to grow, and you grow it for each other.
Paige: After we were together a short time, girlfriends asked, “How did you find this?” When you watch figure skating on ice and see how fluid and graceful it is, they want relationships like that. Figure skaters have worked their butts off to be that fluid! There’s an enormous amount of inner work before you meet the person and when you’re together. Are you generous even when you don’t feel like it? Are you able to act out of love and not smallness?
Don: It’s work, but it’s love work. The richness and bounty are incredible.
Paige: We are deeply engaged and active in our relationship.
Website: https://theloveconversation.com
Check out Paige and Don’s new book Grabbing Lightning: The Messy Quest for an Extraordinary Love available on Amazon (https://amzn.to/35SflZQ) and other online booksellers.
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Author, stand-up comic (*Second City), entrepreneur, humorist, dating expert, and blogger Gail Forrest knows how to make you laugh – at her, at yourself, at others, and especially at her sharp, provocative and memorable declarations (and videos) about online dating after fifty. She joined me on Last First Date Radio to talk about the humor that can be found when dating in midlife.
Check out highlights below for EP 383: A Stand-Up Comic Dishes on Dating in Midlife.
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My podcast guest, Dodi Lamm, is an expert in guiding women at a crossroads in life to the next stage. She has a license in social work and post-graduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Along the way she has amassed training in mindfulness meditation, CBT, as well as Positive Psychology. She is an adjunct professor in psychology. Dodi has developed an online course for Women at a Crossroads starting February 3rd. Sign up now at: http://www.dodilamm.com/women-at-a-crossroads-course
Check out the show notes and listen to/download Episode 382: Guiding Women at a Crossroads Into the Next Stage of Life.
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Happy New Year! Have you given some thought about what NOT to do in the New Year? That may sound strange, but as we all know, New Years resolutions don’t work. Most of us start out every year with goals; lose 10 pounds, find love, eat healthy food, join a gym…And most of those resolutions last a few weeks at best. We’re left feeling like failures. And that’s self-defeating.
If you want to improve your life and love, I suggest you make a list of what NOT to do in the New Year instead. Some habits can be hard to break, but if you make a list of what you want to stop doing, you can begin to create action steps around breaking those habits and having a better life.
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