Getting The Mix Right For A Great Relationship And Marriage

Building a great relationship isn't a matter of an abundance of any one big thing; there is no "magic spell" or "magic bullet" that's going to instantly put you over the top. But that's a good thing, because the alternative is creating a mixture of more common, attainable things, and any man can do that, IF he knows what goes into the mix!

As many of you already know, one of my acquired talents and favorite achievements is that of being a chef. The fact is I'm a "very alpha male" and therefore not only a leader, but also a consummate do-it-yourselfer, the most secure route to the independence that every alpha male demands, and a man who loves good food as much as I do needs to be able to create it at will, because unless you live in New York City, there are more places to get an average or bad meal than there are to get a good one.

"(As a quick aside, New Yorkers are probably the only people on this planet that I envy as a whole, because in my experience, you just can't find a bad meal in New York City. I've literally had better food from a NYC street vendor's cart than I've had at restaurants in other places. A bad restaurant isn't going to survive very long in a densely populated city with commercial real estate prices and rental rates what they are there. If you love good food, a vacation there is worth the stay just for the food!)"

Getting back on topic, I was making omelets for breakfast this morning ("guy omelets," loaded with pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, mushrooms, etc. - use your favorite pizza toppings!), and it hit me how much has to be just right for the eggs to set right, and how that equated to a relationship.

If you add too much water or milk, they don't hold together and you'll end up with runny scrambled eggs. If you let the mixture reach too high a temperature by leaving it in the pan too long, the proteins "spasm" and force all the water out of the eggs, giving you rubbery lumps sitting in water. Too much heat quickly will cause them to scorch and burn. Like baking anything that turns into a set foam (omelet, cake, biscuits, etc.), it's a matter of chemistry and physics, and you have to have the right amount of everything to make it perfect, and getting close will get you something very good.

It's the same way with relationships. Think about the things required to keep a woman happy:

You need to be sensitive and have good communications skills, but if you over apply either you end up being treated like a girlfriend.

You need to project a strong leader-like personality, but if you cross the line and come off as controlling, you're toast!

You need to have a decent sense of humor and know how to have fun and make her laugh, but if you do it too often, you're an over-aged adolescent clown, not "her dream guy who can be so much fun and makes her laugh when she feels bad."

You need to project self-respect and groom and dress in a manner that does, but if you go too far with that, especially if you go "metrosexual," you become conceited, fussy, spend more on skin and hair care products than she does, and you're fun to shop with but nothing else (GIRLFRIEND AGAIN!), not to mention getting all the attention that she wants when the two of you go out.

You need to be a friend and companion, but if you take that too far, you become "just friends," and a "nice guy," somebody she wants to watch a chick-flick with, not somebody she wants to have come into the house, sweep her off her feet, and ravish her. And, regrettably, someone who can't stand up to her, and hence, in her eyes, someone who can't stand up FOR her.

There are a lot of people touting a lot of ways to instantly get results, and as men, we tend to try to make each thing we hear about be that one magic thing we've been missing to make everything wonderful again. We heard women wanted a man to be "nice" and "sensitive" back in the 1980's. We gave up on being the men that our fathers taught us to be and started being wimps who cried in front of their women while watching a movie.

What they wanted was for us to be real men, treat them as someone we liked (nice) instead of taking all their money and beating them up and then leaving them for one a little younger, and to be emotionally aware enough know that there would be times when they would be upset for no apparent reason, and other times when they needed to talk to somebody, and that busting through the door yelling "I'm home! Where's my damned dinner?" wasn't going to work out very well for anyone involved.

You don't need to know every last thing there is to know about women, but there are some things that you do need to know if you ever want to be happy with one or more of them. And there again, it's not just one thing you'll need to know about, but a mix of things: compatibility, communications, emotions, mentality, needs, wants, and reactions, just to name the big ones.

With all these "mixes" going on, it sounds like you need a HUGE cookbook, doesn't it?

Well, no, you don't, and no, I'm not going to drop that "recipe for a happy marriage" clich'e on you. However, you do need to know several things because there are several aspects of your relationship that you need to master and manage.

But! That's not to say that you need a dozen books on psychology, several on communication, a few on seduction, a bunch on female physiology and sexual technique, one on women's history, etc. Yeah, that's a mixture, too, but it's a whole lot of overkill, and quite frankly, since a lot of women think they want things that they really respond to quite negatively, it's also going to be pretty confusing.

There is an answer for you, though. It's not a freebie, but you can easily afford it, no matter what you're situation. It's not a magic pill, but it's a regimen you can easily swallow. It's not likely to turn your life upside down overnight, but some of my readers have stopped their divorces cold within less than a week of receiving it, and over the course of several weeks after that put things back on track and then went on to make them better than they've ever been.

Some are going more slowly, taking a few months, because sudden change just isn't in them (you know, the detail-oriented sort who take the time to check and double-check and study everything before taking action), but even if you are one of those people, what's two or three months compared to extending your marriage as much as thirty or forty years, and making it a great marriage instead of a trap that sucks the life out of you?

Or worse, what's two or three months compared to the years you might continue to be unhappy and/or alone if things continue the way they're going? Not much, not much at all. Let's see, three months study and self-improvement for 30 years of happiness. That's a 12,000% return, and unlike the stock market, you're in total control of whether that investment pays off.

Your answer is at http://www.makingherhappy.com/. It's called "THE Man's Guide to Great Relationships and Marriage," and from what I and my readers have seen, it will cure what ails your relationship, if you do nothing more than read it and do what it says. Don't tell anybody I told you so, but just between us, it's a whole lot of fun, so get to it now, before you do another thing!

In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!

David Cunningham "Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham