Applied Romance

Relationships span interactions with women ranging from a one night stand to a life long commitment.

Miscommunication is frame-control manipulation by one party assuming the right to dictate arbitrary and changing terms of communication at the expense of another party.
This can also called “he said, she said” where the “he” and “she” are absolutely independent of the actual gender of the participants.
The way miscommunication often plays out is that one party [...]

Here is a little secret I’ll share with you, one that doesn’t play well with almost anyone: disrespect rarely matters in modern dating, romance or business.
It truly doesn’t.
We have laws against dueling. Replying to assault (which can be verbal, difficult to prove) with battery (physical, much easier to prove) puts you [...]

Suppose your current frame has not been productive for one or more past interactions with a specific woman. Suppose you bungled an approach, or had an unexpected flake, or a relationship is moving in the wrong direction. You know it’s time to evolve. But how? Press the reset button. It’s simple: revert [...]

When one party in a relationship actively expends time and energy to seize and maintain frame, and reserves the right to dictate the terms of communication, the other parties must compete in an arms race, or be annihilated. In nations, this means annihilation of national identity. In business, being driven out of a [...]

Relationship crises are matters of the heart, requiring emotional strength.
Many times, relationship crises result from a man’s inability or ignorance to properly respond to the woman’s emotional desires. Often, the man caves in, or “collapses” as his heart softens to her pleas of emotional distress and conspires with his inability to [...]