Bryan Reeves can’t tell you how to score a date. But he can open you to the possibility of love—with anyone you find attractive.
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Naturally, we are all ever-eager to fall deeply, passionately, exquisitely in love with one another.
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But a sensitive, open heart can feel through the facade, and one’s carefully prepared fictions don’t interest an open heart.
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It’s exhausting trying to be someone else.
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A man’s true power isn’t in his brains or his balls. It’s in his heart.
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4. Confident Sexuality
Oh, the sexual shame and disorientation that still runs rampant through our modern world. For much of my life, I wasn’t always clear what to do with the sexual passions that would rage through my body like wildfire. The world mostly taught me to hide them lest I be discovered for the perverted creature I apparently wasn’t supposed to be. So I often hid these passions from women, worried they would be frightened by me—at least until their tongues in my mouth gave me reason to suspect otherwise. As a result, I let countless available women slip quietly away who might otherwise have fallen in love with me had I shown them in healthy, heart-connected ways that I was, in fact, cherishingly starving for them and not content on loitering long in the friend-zone.
It took me a while, and admittedly, a healthy amount of sex with ravenous women, to realize that women are just as genuinely jazzed about sex as I am.
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It took me a while, and admittedly, a healthy amount of sex with ravenous women, to realize that women are just as genuinely jazzed about sex as I am. Sexuality is a wondrous gift. It is nothing to be ashamed of. Wielding it responsibly, ethically and in ways connected to heart, is an art form. But when embraced and perfected, this art form can inspire the most intimate parts of our being to arch backwards in eye-popping ecstasy and dissolve us blissfully into love … even before actual physical intercourse happens.
5. Patience
Nothing says “I am a safe, strong place for you to relax your weary self” more than showing a woman I have no intention to push her to do something before she’s ready to. And nothing inspires a woman’s love more than a man in whose presence she can relax her weary self, knowing he won’t push her to do what she doesn’t yet want to do.
Nothing inspires a woman’s love more than a man in whose presence she can relax her weary self, knowing he won’t push her to do what she doesn’t yet want to do.
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Into my pre-satisfied patience, then, she gets the great joy of offering her authentic gifts: her radiance, her brilliance, her smile, her love. And that’s all most anyone really wants to do in life: give their authentic gifts to the world, and to each other.
One could argue that other factors are essential too, like chemistry and timing. But could it be that we are all powerful chemists capable of creating love reactions simply by mixing in the right empowering ingredients?
Could it be that we are all powerful chemists capable of creating love reactions simply by mixing in the right empowering ingredients?
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I enjoyed this article! it’s well-written.
Simple and beautifull
A well written article..Cheers!!
Great……same applied to women
Great article and advice, even for those of us looking for same-sex partners.
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! Thank you sir!
One of my most favorite articles ever!
Simple yet brilliant! It’s so comforting to know that there are men out there who think this way. Being a woman, I can tell you that all the points you made here would truly make any woman fall in love with a guy. Keep writing. More power to you!
Thank you for writing this, it has given me so much validation 🙂
You’re so welcome brother!
This makes perfect sense. So beautiful that it is written by a man! Thank you for sharing.
You nailed it! That was really helpful and validating to read coming from a man. Now I would love and greatly appreciate it if you can write an article on how women can find a man who is connected to his heart. A lot of us know where not to find them. Please please! Thanks again for the insight!
That’s a great article idea, Erica. I’m gonna take it on. (to be sure you see it, please subscribe to my personal blog at http://www.thiswildwakingjourney.com )
Wow! You NAILED IT….Thank u for your Awesome article….:)
Wonderful article! I have been working on my hang ups and triggers that popped up in a relationship that just ended and it isn’t an easy task at times. I realized I need to work on being true to myself more. This article gives me lots to think about. Thank you!
“…how much we all deeply yearn to fall in love with each other.” So Bryan do you think this is nature or nurture? It’s a knockout article by the way.
I think it’s mostly nature. There’s some attractive force within us human beings that endlessly urges to merge, and I don’t just mean physically. The authentic experience of “Love” feels great in our entire being. We’re only ever looking for excuses to allow it in. That’s what I see, anyway. What do you see? (thanks for the compliment, by the way)
Short answer, 75% nature, 25% nurture. The force of nature is the drive and nurture sorts out the direction. So I guess we agree.
This is a fantastic article. Really on point.
Thank you, Jenny. I appreciate your acknowledgement. Bryan
Hi Bryan
You deserve compliments for this article!
Thank you! I accept your compliments 🙂
Yes Bryan you really are gifted at putting into words what we are all thinking and have NO idea how to put into words. You are very perceptive and seem to have a huge grasp on learning from your life experiences and putting them into use. Please keep teaching us and writing and being cool