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to guard your heart from.
You can’t go into potential relationships holding back who you are
because you’ll sabotage the situation. You hurt your chances of being able to
embrace the connection you may have with the guy who’s for you, and in the
same instance, fool yourself into thinking it’s OK to be with a guy who
doesn’t belong in your life.
Take a Road Trip Together
And I’m not talking about a two-hour drive, I’m talking six hours or more.
A drive where the two of you can do nothing else but sit and talk—no
distractions. There’s no other choice but to get to know each other.
How does the conversation flow?
Is it fluid? Are you learning more about one another? Do you feel a
stronger, more intimate connection, or are you ready to kick him out the car
before you get to the third hour? If you can’t do a road trip, spend an extended
period of time together with no distractions and really see if you two enjoy
each other, it will be more difficult to determine if there’s a genuine
connection.
A lot of people are in relationships, right now, where they seem happy.
Everything appears great and wonderful; however, they wouldn’t last an hour
alone in a car together. They need a distraction because they don’t really like
each other in that way.
They’re caught up in the surface hype, the fantasy, the image of what they
want things to be and what they want to believe they are; however, they’re not
dealing with reality.
Don’t set yourself up like that.
You have to make time to sit, talk and vibe together. You don’t have to do
it every week or every day, but if you can’t then I’m sorry to tell you, it’s
going to be a problem. It might get you through for the moment and allow
you to tolerate a situation for the sake of having a relationship; but the fact
remains, you’re setting yourself up for disaster.
People who have genuine connections don’t struggle with this. They can
meet and speak for hours and it’s nothing to them.
Of course, some of you may be thinking, I spoke to this guy on the phone
for hours and it still didn’t work out. Using the phone as a measuring stick can
be risky because you don’t know what distractions are on their end, or what
they’re using to help move things along. It may be easy to mask the
connection in the first couple of conversations; however, at some point,
you’re forced to go in depth if you intend to keep the conversation going,
otherwise, it’s just small talk.
When you go more in depth, it begins to draw out the information. You
begin to see if you two truly connect, share the same values, and want the