by Ken Page
Are you trying to figure out how to make him love you?
Or doing everything you can think of to be more desirable and attractive to that one guy you can’t stop thinking about, because he’s been acting a little indifferent toward you?
It can feel confusing and certainly disheartening when you’ve been dating someone you think is completely your type, but they aren’t acting like they’re feeling the same way about you.
One day they are saying “yes” to everything—another date with you, being with you, physical touch, maybe even sex…
And the next day they’re saying “no”. No to seeing you again, no to those weekend plans, or not even responding to your text messages or phone calls.
You so want to be able to do something. You don’t like to feel powerless. It’s understandable!
But trying to figure out how to “make him attracted” or “how to be attractive” is a strategy that not only won’t get you what you want, it will backfire.
Here’s why…
The Disempowering Messages Women Have Been Getting And Why You Need to Ignore Them
So there you are, heartbroken, raw, frustrated that the man you thought was into you has suddenly grown cold or disappeared.
You want to be able to change that. But how?
Maybe you’ve been intrigued by certain ads or articles you’ve seen or read in magazines or the internet about how you can “magically” make a guy love you, or do things that will make him “unable to resist you”.
These messages hit on a terribly ancient and terribly painful and unhelpful message that women have been receiving for many decades.
It’s the “What can I do to make my man feel happy and secure, and how can I contort myself so that he loves me and wants me?” message.
And it’s so disempowering!
That’s because the minute you start asking yourself, “How do I make myself attractive to him?” you’re also asking:
What’s wrong with me?
How am I not enough?
What are my undesirable qualities?
How am I not feminine enough?
How did I not flirt the right way?
What’s the secret thing I need to do or stop doing to make him want me?
What these questions do is take your low self-esteem and sear it into your soul like a branding iron.
In other words, every time you focus on trying to “get” a guy by changing yourself in some way, you’re lowering your self-esteem.
You’re going to do all this stuff to be different than who you are.
- You’re going to act more feminine than you’re comfortable with.
- You’re going to be more assertive and flirty when you’re naturally quite shy.
- You’re going to be less talkative, more funny, more intellectual, more athletic, less opinionated, less demanding, less sensitive, more seductive…
And it’s all going to backfire.
Why?
Because pushing down who you really are—your authentic self—is like pushing a beach ball underwater. It’s going to come up as soon as you let down your guard. You can’t keep pushing it down forever.
And pushing down your true self is also the path to pain, even if all the “tips and tricks” work and you actually end up in a committed relationship with the guy.
Yes, you read that right. You may “get” the guy, but you won’t necessarily be happy.
Even If You “Get” the Guy Now, You Could Be Setting Yourself Up for Loneliness and Pain Later
How do I know? Because as a psychotherapist I see so many clients who come to me for guidance, who say, “I’ve been in a 5, 10, 20-year marriage and I have to leave because they never saw who I was. But I put up with that because I wanted to be married.”
That’s what I hear again and again.
It is the fallout from modern love. On one hand, it’s pretending to empower women to take charge of their love life, and on the other hand, it’s dooming them to a life where they have to suppress (or contort) themselves in some way in order to be pleasing to a man.
There’s an infinitely better way to manage your love life.
It’s a way that’s going to make you love yourself, make you happier and draw you to the kind of man you’ve always dreamed about—one who accepts and loves you exactly the way you are.
These are skills and techniques I’ve been developing for decades in my career as a psychotherapist, and have taught to countless individuals in my private practice.
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