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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

How to Invite Him Over for the Holidays (Without Freaking Him Out)

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The holidays can be a magical time of new romance and quality time spent with family… But attempting to combine the two? Now that can get stressful. So is there a way to invite the guy you’re dating over to your house for an eggnog without making things seem too serious and freaking him out? Actually, yes. It’s quite simple, and in this episode I’ll give you a word-for-word script you can use that takes all the pressure off and makes him want to meet you under the mistletoe…even if it means meeting your mom, too.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Love Life, I'm Matthew Hussie. Now do you ever feel like you're stuck in a rut?

0:08.0

We all do from time to time. The problem is just going through the motions,

0:13.0

cuts off our ability to grow and increase our happiness in life.

0:17.0

Now what would happen if you actually began living each and every day with purpose?

0:22.0

Let me tell you, it is possible to transform your life from ordinary to extraordinary

0:27.0

and it doesn't have to take months or years but just a matter of days.

0:32.0

Stick with me till the end of the show and I'll tell you exactly how to do it.

0:39.0

Short and sweet episode today but I know the holidays are coming up.

0:43.0

So I wanted to, I had a question from somebody the other day and she said,

0:47.0

if you, if you want to ask your boyfriend or the guy that you're seeing to come and spend time with you

0:52.0

and your family over the holidays, how do you do it without seeming like your two desperate

0:57.0

or putting him under pressure? So here's what you do. This is going to be a very easy one.

1:02.0

All you say is if you haven't got a lot going on or if you know, if for any reason you don't want to spend time with your family

1:09.0

or you want to come and spend it with mine, we'd love to have you and I'd love to spend time with you that day.

1:14.0

And don't worry, we're not going to start calling you part of the family or anything like that.

1:19.0

I just wanted you to know you're welcome and I'd love to see you.

1:23.0

This is a really nice way of handling this situation because on one hand, you're not asking him what you don't want to do is say,

1:29.0

do you want to come to mine for the holidays?

1:32.0

Because as soon as you do that, you put him under pressure.

1:35.0

You give it, you make him have to answer you yes or no.

1:39.0

And that's not always a nice situation to be in.

1:41.0

Instead, when you say to him, if you haven't got something else going on, we'd love to have you.

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