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He wants to know that you support his life and what he does to be a good man for you. Every day he is out in the world competing to be the best and succeed in life. There are three things a man needs to feel loved in a relationship: support, loyalty, and sex.Ī man needs you to support him at home and make him feel special. But a man doesn’t need any of those things to feel loved. You likely want the man you love to shower you with affection, gifts, romantic gestures, and attention. But if he professes, provides, and protects, you know he loves you the best way he knows how. Your man may not go shopping with you, feed you soup when you’re sick, or talk with you for hours about his feelings. But if he doesn’t step in to protect you from possible harm, he isn’t in love with you, and you should move on. If your man truly loves you, he will walk your dog late at night so you don’t have to, place himself between you and danger, or make sure the people in your life know they’ll have to come through him to get to you. He’s been raised to believe his role is one of protector, so it’s ingrained in his behavior. If your man doesn’t try to provide for you in some way, he’s not the right man for you.Ī man also can’t help but protect the people he loves. He may provide for you with money, emotional support, or solutions to your problems, but if you can tell he’s giving what he has to give to take care of you and make your life better, you know he really loves you. He has no choice but to take care of a woman he truly cares about. Chances are, he’s not truly invested in your relationship.Ī man feels most like a man when he’s providing for the ones he loves. But if he introduces you as his friend or by name only, he’s not staking his claim to you. He wants the world to know you are his and that he’s proud to spread the word. If you meet his friends, family, or coworkers and are introduced as his lady, woman, girlfriend, boo, or any other term of endearment, he’s professing his love for you. If your man does these three things for you, you can be sure he is factoring you into his future.Ī man professes his love when he makes it clear to the people in his life that you’re someone special. But how do you know if he’s interested in making you part of his future? There are three ways a man shows his love, or the Three Ps of Love: professing, providing, and protecting. If you’re with a man who has his three priorities straight, he will be ready to get the rest of his life in order. If you’re with a man who is still figuring out his life, no matter how he feels about you, he won’t be ready to settle down. Everything men do is aimed at discovering these three things in their life, and until they have them figured out, they have no bandwidth for serious relationships. Men are simple creatures and are motivated by three things in life: who they are, what they do, and how much they make. Here are the best Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man tips for navigating relationships, both new and old. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is the compilation of research and interviews conducted with both men and women to help give women strategies needed to find the man they want and keep him. He decided to help women learn the ins and outs of the male mind and the games men play with women. Comedian Steve Harvey learned about these differences firsthand after women kept calling into this radio show asking for relationship advice. Men and women have different views on life and love, and those differences can cause trouble in the dating world. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man Tips and Insights He covers everything from love, to sex, to meeting the family, to dealing with the ex.Ĭontinue reading for the best Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man tips from Steve Harvey. In his book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey aims to help women navigate relationships better by providing them insight into how men think. Want to get inside the minds of men and know how they think about relationships? How do men and women differ when it comes to thinking about love and intimacy?

#THINK LIKE A MAN TRIAL#

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