Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate

He’ll plan trips and weekend getaways for you well in advance. If he’s a twenty-something, he’s the consummate texter. He likes to know where you are

You can figure out your own waist to hip ratio by taking a tape measure and measuring around the smallest part of your waist. Write that number down. Now measure around the largest part of your hips (go around your butt, not your thighs). Divide your waist measurement by your hip measurement. So if your waist measurement is 27, and you divide that

Under no circumstance, even if you’re a millionairess, should you spend more money on him than he did on you, or kidnap him and take him away on a lavish vacation.

Even the nicest, safest guys will get the message that you’re ready to roll if you go back to their place too soon.

Regardless of this mini-obsession, you need to keep in mind that there are Three C’s of a Relationship: Chemistry. Does he make your heart pound and your toes curl?

“She who asks for everything gets nothing. She who asks for nothing gets the world.”

Think of yourself as a great wine—you’re only getting better and more valuable with age. When the right occasion comes along and that wine is uncorked, it will be

percent to your 40 percent, unless you make more money than he does, then it should be 50/50.

Just because he wants to sleep with you after you’ve broken up does not mean he’s entertaining thoughts of getting back together.