Relationship Principle 10 You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn’t respect your opinion, he won’t respect you.
Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there’s nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.
Relationship Principle 11 It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.
There’s nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.
He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.
With a woman he’s crazy about, he’ll put in all the overtime in the world. He’ll be doing things for you, he’ll be considerate, he’ll want to please you, he’ll try to cheer you up if you are down, and he will enjoy every moment because you are the person he values most.
Once you start laughing, you start healing.
Truly powerful people don’t explain why they want respect. They simply don’t engage someone who doesn’t give it to them.
When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.
When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too. This is the kind of relationship you want, and it’s the only kind of relationship worth having.
When a man likes you, he will be interested in finding out what you like. If he makes you happy, he feels more secure. Everything men do is intended to impress women.
Many people lack the basic equipment to be in a relationship and there’s nothing you can do to change it. You can’t take a skunk and dip it in perfume and hope it becomes a puppy. Eventually, the perfume will wear off and you’ll still have a skunk on your hands.
The more independent you are of him, the more interested he will be.
The most attractive quality of all is dignity.
Men are intrigued by anything they do not completly control.
Men don’t respond to words. What they respond to is “no contact”.
There is no way to hold your own in a relationship and simultaneously accept rude behavior.
If you appear weak, people take advantage of you.
In a relationship of any kind, if one person feels the other person isn’t bringing anything to the table, he or she will begin to disrespect that person.
She doesn’t realize that she becomes so involved in him that she loses herself, and in the process, she risks losing him as well.