I've fielded a number of comments and questions from guys over the
years on how to start a relationship
off right with a new girl they've just started seeing. After all,
you've used all the material on this site on how to turn yourself into
a smooth, edgy, sexy
man; and you've learned everything you need to know about how to get girls, you knew what
to look for in a girlfriend, and you've found her, met her,
and everything went perfectly. You took her to bed as your lover, and
now she's yours.
Now what?

Most people treat dating and relationships as some big, mythical,
emotionally-driven process these days, devoid of much logical
forethought or planning. It's reached a point in Western thought where
"giving in to your emotions" has become the ultimate ideal to be
striven for and attained; you should seek to "just feel" and "go with
your heart."
But while emotion is a very important piece of your actions and
decision making as a human, it's only half the story, and, worse for
relationships... it's the short term half of the story.
Emotions will have you shortchange your tomorrow for a better today.
What I'm going to tell you to do in THIS article, however, is to
take command of yourself, and build a relationship
designed to be strong, successful, and rewarding long after the fires
of early emotion quit burning so brightly, or even quit burning at all.
This is, you might say, the anti-guide to falling in love: it's the guide
not to getting there, but to staying there, and like all good
stories it starts at the beginning.