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Make Your Ex Come Back to a More Confident You

December 12th, 2009 Brian Hendrick No comments

When you’ve just gone through a painful breakup or a divorce, it’s just natural for you to feel anger towards your ex or towards yourself. You may end up bitter and constantly analyzing who is to blame for the separation.  At the same time, you are torn between your anger and feelings of wanting to make your ex come back to you.

Sometimes these emotions of pain, anger, misery and confusion just paralyze you and you are unable to go through your day without crying. You may find it hard to even leave your bedroom or your house a few days (sometimes weeks) after the breakup. You would stare on the phone for hours, waiting for it to ring, hoping that it’s his voice at the other end of the line. Well, he does call one day, but it’s only to let you know he’s picking up the rest of his things!

And you feel your heart being torn apart into small pieces and then trampled on. But face it, it’s not just your heart that is hurting here. So are your self esteem and pride. You can’t believe that he would dump you for someone less pretty, less smart than you. You can’t even imagine what he sees with the girl he’s dating right now. And at the back of your mind, you want to believe that he’s just out dating to make you feel jealous. Oh yeah, right!

You have two choices – you can wallow in self pity and spend the rest of your life aching for “the man that got away”. Or you can step out of your room, look around you and see how wonderful it is that you are given this chance to reflect on what went wrong. Step out of your blues. Get out there and meet your best friend for coffee and if you really strongly desire it – plan your strategy to make your ex come back.

Focus on gaining back your confidence and do a little soul searching.  Ask yourself what your next step will be – will you try and mend your broken heart by moving on, or would you try to make your ex come back to you?

You alone can make that decision.  But whether or not you decide to make your ex come back, work on your self-esteem and gain that confidence again.  Find ways to restore the woman he first fell in love with but somehow got buried in all of life’s daily demands.  Get out and make new friends, watch movies or concerts with friends, read more books, love yourself more.

You maybe surprised that the next time he sees you, you don’t even have to try too hard to catch his attention.  He’ll wonder if you have a new love in your life who is making the best of you come out. He’ll even be more surprised to know that you just did all these changes because you learned to love yourself more.

Without even really trying, you can make your ex come back to you with your newfound confidence.  Try it and be on for a surprise!

Get Him to Beg You to Take Him Back

August 9th, 2009 Brian Hendrick No comments

So you not only want your boyfriend to take you back, but you also want him to come begging for you to take him back. This is kind of cruel, but hey, we all have our thing, right? If you want your boyfriend to come crawling back then you have to convince him that he is missing out on a good thing, and not only is he missing out on a good thing, but he will never find someone else like you in his life.

Your boyfriend will be begging you to give him a second chance once he sees or you make him believe that no other women can love him the way you do. Here are a few ways to get under his skin.

Ignore him for a while

This is an old tactic, but it works pretty well. If you ignore your ex boyfriend he will assume you have found someone else. When people break up they often want the other person to hurt for a while, or they want to be the first person to move on. Don’t give your ex boyfriend the satisfaction of seeing you sulk or cry over him.

You’ll only boost his ego and make him believe he must be really something if he was able to have this kind of effect on you. Ignore him completely, don’t try to beg him for a reason why he broke up with you or try to convince him why he should want to be with you in the first place. Ignore him and you’ll attract his attention.

Flirt with other guys

You can wait until he comes around and then flirt with other guys in front of him. This will let him know that you are moving on with your life and not spending time thinking about why he dumped you. Your ex may want you to believe that you’ll never find a man like him again, or that you are not desirable to other men. Let him know otherwise by letting him see other guys beg for your attention.

If he sees that other people want you he may get the sense that he is missing out on something. The more value other guys put into you or the more you can make yourself desirable to other guys the more he’ll want you back if not just to keep you from the other guys.

Put your best foot forward with other people

Put your best foot forward with other people you meet. Here is what I mean – you want your ex to see you making it easier for other guys to get along with you than what you may have made it for him.

Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mean that you should be promiscuous, I just mean giving him the illusion that you are. To add a little insult to injury, try to do it with guys whom you think he believes he is superior to. If the cool hip guy has to jump through a million hoops to get with you, and the nerdy guy seemingly gets you with no trouble at all this will drive him nuts.

These tips to make your ex come back may seem silly, but trust me they do work if you take them seriously.

3 Sure Ways to Divorce Proof Your Marriage

August 6th, 2009 Brian Hendrick No comments

Running your husband away is nothing new for a lot of women. They run their husbands away all the time, usually because they’re trying to be too controlling or are tying to force the man into a position he doesn’t want to be in. Believe it or not most men would love to be married. The thought of having a mate at home who is faithful, loyal, and dedicated to them and only them is something that any man can respect. The problem comes when the man and the woman aren’t on the same page.

If you’re a woman constantly worried that your husband will one day leave, here are some no nonsense tips to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Stop doing things that irritate him

You probably do things that irritate the hell out of your husband and not even being aware that you’re doing it. It is not your fault though; you probably grew up around a bunch of women who encouraged you to act this way. Acting like a drill sergeant is not attractive; asking your husband to help you clean the house or take care of the kids minutes before the super bowl doesn’t help either; making your man ask permission to spend his money on a toy for himself while you spend freely is also very irritating.

Give him a little freedom

You have to give your husband a little freedom if you want him to stay in the relationship. You can get started by letting him hang out at sports bars with his buddies without accusing him of secretly seeing some other women behind your back. You can let him go to sporting events without you if you don’t enjoy sports. A lot of women try to make their man go everywhere with them even if they don’t enjoy it. If he just wants to get away for a while without you then you shouldn’t have a problem with it. As much as he may love you sometimes absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Don’t control him with sex

Some married women have this bad habit of trying to use sex to control their husbands. This is a bad thing to do in a relationship where sex is supposed to be mutually desired by both partners. If you want to divorce proof your marriage, don’t use sex as a tool to manipulate your husband. Don’t offer it as a reward for a good deed, only to withdraw if he doesn’t do what you want him to do. Your husband will just see through your tactics, and you’ll end up being enemies than lovers.

There really is no room for manipulation in a sincere, loving relationship. Learn to love your husband unconditionally and make him realize that he deserves this love. Divorce is out of the question if the relationship is happy, loving and fulfilling.

5 Ways to Make Your Long Distance Relationship Work

July 21st, 2009 Brian Hendrick 1 comment

If you’re involved with someone who lives in the same state or country as you do, you’re considered one of the lucky ones! A study shows that there can easily be about 6 million couples in the US alone who are in long distance relationships (LDR) and the number increases every year due to online dating. Can long distance relationships work?

The challenges that couples face in this kind of relationship differ, depending on what level the relationship is on. If the relationship is new, and has not been given enough time to develop, the challenge to keep it alive is greater than if there has been more time shared before one partner relocates.

If you’re already in a long distance relationship or contemplating on getting into one, here are a couple of things you can do to make the relationship vibrant in spite of the miles in between:

1.  Think positive. People looking from the outside will often see that your relationship is doomed, because of the distance between you and your partner. Do not listen to people who would readily put down your relationship, but instead, if you want to make it work, fill your days with positive thoughts and shun out the negative criticisms that you may hear.
2.  Forecast an end goal to the separation. You and your partner should agree on the time frame as to when this arrangement will last. Make the deadline realistic – one, that will also allow for both of you to reach your other goals which probably started the separation in the first place. The deadline should be mutually agreed, because if it’s just one partner setting the date, the other partner may feel pressured and may even find the relationship an impediment to personal growth.

3.  Communicate. With internet, reaching out to your partner, even at the remotest part of the earth is no longer impossible. Emails and phone calls are great ways to establish intimacy, and can bridge that distance. Also, take the time to write long loving letters to each other to spice up the romance.  Share even the most mundane events of the day to make your partner feel that closeness and that he or she is a part of your every day life.

4.  Meet up. This is an important step to keep the relationship alive and if you consider your relationship a priority, you would find ways to meet up, even though it may get expensive sometimes. It adds up to the excitement whenever you and your partner has a date to look forward to, like a shared weekend or even a once a month date.

5.  Build Trust. It’s normal to feel fear and anxiety that your partner may become unfaithful because of the mere fact that you are not together most of the time. However, studies show that it’s not the distance between the couple, but the overall quality of the relationship which will determine if infidelity will happen. Strengthen the relationship and you’ll find that it will be very difficult for you or your partner to stray away.

A long distance relationship probably takes more work than a regular “geographically close” one. But LDR is a fact of today’s world and something that can still work as long as both partners are committed to keep the relationship alive and exciting.

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