Here are five ways to tell if a guy is worth your time in 10 minutes or less.

Look, your time is the one thing that you can never get back.

So when you're dating, make sure you protect it at all costs.

My name is Adam Lidolche.

I'm the founder and CEO of Love Strategies, where we help successful single women get out there and attract love and do it with a proven strategy.

And my job as an executive love coach is to save our clients time and accelerate their results.

But at the end of the day, when people say, oh man, dating is a waste of my time, they really

mean that it is wasting their emotional energy.

They're tired of the heartbreak.

They're tired of going out with the guys who just suck their emotional energy dry,

who are just like kind of a plague of dark energy in their life.

They're tired of all that.

So it's not necessarily about the time.

It's about the heartache.

As Benjamin Franklin says, lost time is never found again.

So we want to make sure we avoid that and here's how to do it. The first sign that he is absolutely worth your time is that he makes you feel safe, not scrutinized.

Look, fights happen, arguments happen, conflict happens in relationships.

But at the end of the day, a man's intention should always be to emotionally protect you.

I believe that healthy masculinity requires a man to make a woman always

feel secure, both emotionally and physically. And definitely, he should never make her feel self-conscious.

And if he's doing that, then he's a waste of your time. So let's say he's the type of guy when you're

going out at night, before you go out, he says things like, oh, are you really going to be wearing that

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