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Day 9
Take a Woman on a Date
A man has many roles in his life — leader, father, brother, friend, and so
on. Yet there’s one name that fewer and fewer men may be called by: lover.
Manliness is often ranked by how many random women a dude can bed.
But one of the things that separates man from the beasts is the ability and
desire to focus his romantic energies on one woman at a time. Being a lover
and romancer is something that makes us human, and not just another
mammal on the Discovery Channel.
There is no better tool in the romantic man’s arsenal than the date.
The date’s structure allows a man to show off his ability to woo a lady.
Unfortunately, few men have been taking on the challenge of being lovers
these days as our dating abilities have become infected with the plague of
hanging out.
Dating and the Single Man
We’ve previously discussed the way in which “hanging out” has largely supplanted
dating these days. Young people hang out in groups of friends and
“friends with benefits” and rarely pair off for an official date. There’s nothing
wrong with hanging out, but it’s not a substitute for dating. Dating is
the way you find a woman you’d like to have an exclusive relationship with.
Exclusive relationships are one-on-one affairs, so there has to come a point
where you leave the comfort of the group and start getting to know women
on a one-on-one basis.