The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships

men who were good, and solid, and loyal.

A week later, it’s still just as hot, but you don’t mind anymore. You’re used to it now.You don’t even think about it. In fact, you like it hot. Your reward for staying is the chance to take in amazing sights you’ll never

warriors for love who know how to commit, to follow through, and to raise strong children who speak the languages of love and family and emotional security. And when we win these battles, we will be better and stronger and the world will say, “Amen.”

Another thing that every man I know wants in a woman is for her to believe in him and support his aspirations. There is nothing more appealing than a woman you can trust with your dreams, someone who will urge you to keep moving forward when you get tired, or when those dreams seem impossible to realize.

always sensitive to what their wives wanted or needed

Something else that used to really hold me in a place of fear was that I thought that if people knew how you felt about them, then they had the power to hurt you, and so I didn’t let my girlfriends know how much I cared about them. I realize that people are scared of vulnerability, but here’s what’s also true: If people know how you feel about them

We all say we want it, but we become uncomfortable when it means that we have to grow, to bare our souls. But the reward is immediate and it’s incredible. There is nothing that can compare to the power and the beauty of love, of allowing ourselves to love and be loved. There is a divinity to it. I do believe that God and the universe have a wonderf

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.

So here’s the thing: I have a good clue as to what women ultimately want. I’ve seen what it takes to be that kind of man. But somehow I forget it all whenever I meet a woman I am interested in and who might return my affections. I draw a complete blank, find myself trying to figure out what in the world she might want from me, and then worry that I