Even if you’re with a man for the wrong reasons – Even if the “energy” is off, and the connection is off, and your astrologer and numerologist and psychic tell you you’re not “aligned” – you can FEEL intense passion, love – everything you want to feel with nearly any man.
There are trade-offs no matter what – and here’s what I want for you:
Don’t go by the “thrill” you feel or don’t feel. That can be an old, toxic, “off” pattern that will bring you to the same results you’ve always gotten.
Some of us are attracted to men who are “aligned” with us in mysterious ways (MatchMatrix – whose stuff I love and recommend in an interview I did with Frank Seifert) – where the communication and connection flows and it’s all so easy and fulfilling and energizing.
And some of us are attracted to men who are totally NOT aligned with us, where the communication and connection is challenging, and exhausting – but our attraction carries the relationship anyway.
And all of us attract men who are aligned or not aligned with us in important ways, but the result is the same – if we allow the man into our life, regardless of the level of attraction WE feel at first – we can still either be exhausted and drained by the man, or feel energized and good around him.
Also – and here’s the really unfair part – if you’ve had a history, like I did, of one wrong man after another – where the one thing that constantly happened was that he did not care enough for you to make the relationship work seriously – then it hardly even MATTERS if a man who DOES care for you is aligned with you or not.
You’ll instinctively push away any man who’s emotionally available and pine after a man who isn’t. In other words, your attraction to a man who will hurt you is stronger than any other consideration.
So – how can we get the best situation for ourselves with all these different things going on?
How can we trust our feelings when we can feel so much for a man who will hurt us, and feel so much for a man who’s not aligned in anyway with us? (MatchMatrix calls an attraction for men who are NOT like us, and so not aligned with us – “false attraction.”)
1. We look at our lives and our values and what’s important to us.
If we’re getting to 40, and we really want to have a child, then we’ll give more weight to a man who also wants to have a family – NOW – and who would be a good father and husband. And we can become VERY attracted to that – because that’s what’s important to us right now.
2. We make the mental decision that there’s a huge difference between “settling” and “having a great relationship and a great life with a great man.”
In other words, if we’re always, and ONLY attracted to men who are emotionally and physically unavailable – men who will HURT us in the end – then we have to accept that CHOOSING a man who is AVAILABLE to us, who WANTS us – may FEEL like “settling” at first – but that it ISN’T settling.
If we’re lucky, and we’re attracted to men who are aligned with us, who we relate to easily – then we may feel the “friend” thing really, really strongly, and might take that to mean there won’t be any passion.
But that isn’t true. For a woman, true passion is born out of connection, not attraction.
I’ll say that again: For a woman, true passion is born out of connection, not attraction.
So – take your time before you make judgments about what is or isn’t possible.
The only thing you need to know, from the first moment to the present moment, is if a man’s energy is coming TOWARD you.
You need to feel that. You need to feel that as relaxation, as a sense of security in your body. You need to be able to breathe around him. You need to feel safe enough to do the Tools, Speak your Truth, and be yourself – happy as yourself.
Try using that as the test for any man. From here, you create connection, and from there – passion.
Let me know.
Love, Rori