Welcome to the Awakew Jake Show. I'm your host, Jake Woodard, and it is my mission to help

you break through mental barriers, gain clarity, and activate your power. My intention is to

restore the foundation of masculine and feminine energies within men and women so we can truly

thrive. Join me as we embrace your inner journey to awaken. If you are the woman

who is always waiting around for a man to step up and commit to you, but he never really does

and you end up being the placeholder, then this episode is for you. Today, I'm going to be dropping

in and talking with you about the real reasons why men

make women a placeholder and how you can never be one again. So reason number one, which is one of the

biggest ones, is you give way too much early on in the relationship, meaning that you are the one that's always planning

the dates, texting him first, reaching out, seeing how he's feeling, seeing how he's doing,

checking in with him, giving him all of your energy. Maybe you're even the one paying for the dates.

And you are the one that is constantly pursuing and leading, which is

the masculine role. So right from the beginning, because you're the overgiver, you're the over

planner, you take on the masculine role of the structure, of the planning, of the provider,

and that causes him to not step up now if he's not

really in his mask on energy and he sees you doing all this he's going to go oh that's cool i can just

sit back and coast and hang out with this girl for convenience now if you don't want to just be

convenient to him,

then you have to learn how to pull back in a loving way. This doesn't mean you can't show affection.

This doesn't mean you can't show some attention to him, but it's about how you do it in the

energy you embody behind it because ultimately that's going to either inspire

him to step up or just coast you do not want a man who just coast along and follows your lead

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