Editor’s Note: I’ve been lucky enough to get, Maryanne Comaroto, internationally know relationship expert and radio host, to guest blog once or twice a week for the next ten weeks! What follows is pure dating and relationship gold that’s been mined from the deep and fertile depths of Maryanne’s rich experience.

Today’s post concerns respect for others whether you’re dating, divorced or married to them. While Maryanne directs this at men only, I respectfully ask that you read this post carefully as it my open your eyes as to the quality of your love life.

Guys, this one’s for you – and ladies, feel free to pass it on to any guy you know in your life who’s on a path toward thinking holistically about love, relationships and family.
In my work over the past two-plus decades, I’ve focused on relationships of many different types – dating, casual, serious, engagement, marriage, divorce, post-divorce … and in my most recent book, “Hindsight: What you need to know before you drop your drawers” I present the relationship tool belt. Although applicable for just about anyone, the book – and my subsequent teaching on it – is primarily geared toward women.
But I’m also interested in how the male mind relates to relationships, and I there are many, many guys out there who are on paths toward healthy, honest, fulfilling relationships – dating, marriage or otherwise. How we approach relationship and sex cannot be separated from our values about children, marriage and family (considering one primary unconscious drive is to procreate). Having stated the obvious, it’s what isn’t so obvious that I would like to help illuminate with my next book, Investing Your Family Jewels. It’s an attempt to help folks heal and educate themselves so we as a culture are better equipped to raise healthy, thriving children, rather than continue the cycle of dysfunction we each in our own way struggle to be free of.

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I just got back from the farm where my daughter, Hannah, is learning to ride horses. She’s just turned eight and while she’s comfortable on top of the animal, she’s having a tough time getting the horse to listen.

To be fair, horses have to be touched and told how and where to go. Apparently it’s a two step process that involves more than just a verbal command. Just like you and I, the horse is dependent on far more than just your words to figure out where it’s going or what you want it to do. To get the horse to trot, my daughters instructor has the girls gently kick their horses sides, squeeze the horse’s sides and then yell “trot”.

Whenever you pull on the horses reigns it either stops or goes in the direction you pull the reigns in. If you pull the horse in the right way, it’ll take you to wherever you want it to. If only we men could be lead so easily!

As for the horse true friends, it’s flies, I have nothing but contempt!

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