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Love Strategies: Dating and Love Advice for Successful Women

7 Subtle Things Men Do to Test Women

Love Strategies: Dating and Love Advice for Successful Women

Adam LoDolce and Dr. Gary Lewandowski

Society & Culture, Adam Lodolce, Love Strategies, Why Men Pull Away, How To Find Love, Relationships, How To Find A Husband, Dating Advice, Relationship Advice, How To Improve My Relationship

4.7719 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When a man is “testing” you, it is easy to slip into performance mode without even noticing. In my latest podcast episode, I walk you through some of the quieter ways this shows up - from first date to long-term commitment. I recorded it for women who are done contorting themselves and want a calmer, more grounded way to navigate these moments. If you have ever wondered, “Is this a red flag or just human behavior?” you will find this especially useful. If you’re starting to recognise these t...

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0:00.0

Ladies, whether you know it or not, these guys out there, they are testing you, they are

0:05.7

seeing whether or not you are relationship material.

0:09.2

And in today's video, we're going to be talking about some of these seven very subtle

0:13.4

things that men are doing out there to really test to see whether or not they should

0:17.9

continue seeing you or whether or not they're just going to put you in that kind of casual fling type of category.

0:24.1

And here's the thing about these tests. It is not like a teacher giving a student a test and then there's like a pass or fail.

0:31.1

Instead, it's kind of like a toddler testing their parents to see what it is that they can get away with.

0:37.0

For example, I was just

0:37.9

hang out with my buddy who has four children. Oh my God, God bless his soul. And they're all under

0:43.1

the age of nine. And we were cooking dinner together. We're at his house and, you know,

0:48.2

the wives were just hanging out and talking. The boys were on cooking duty. And two of his kids, one of them was three years old,

0:56.5

kept going up to the oven and was about to touch it. And we said, don't do that. You're going to

1:05.0

get your fingers burned. You don't want to do that. But the kid, the toddler, just kept getting just close enough to the oven to see

1:13.6

whether or not we would respond. And weirdly enough, when a guy is testing you and dating,

1:17.9

it's kind of like that toddler who's just testing you to see what it is that you can get away with.

1:22.5

And more importantly, just like a toddler, they don't really know that they're doing it. They just are doing it anyways.

1:29.2

Like these guys out there aren't talking to their buddies before a first date with you being like,

1:33.3

oh, I'm going to really test this woman tonight to see whether or not she's relationship material.

1:38.5

No, they are just doing these things to see how it is that you might respond. They're doing it

1:42.9

in the moment. And this is their way of kind of subtly knowing, she's going to be right for me. And so much of this is based on my experience of having been a dating coach for hundreds of men in the past. And the types of guys I was coaching were the good guys, but they were really looking for a wife. They were looking for a long-term, healthy, committed

2:01.0

relationship so they would be going out there and testing women to see whether or not they were

2:04.9

right for them. So I'm going to walk you through these seven tests, and they are in the order of

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