It's Not "Weird" To Ask For What You Want
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever worried about having the "awkward" conversation, answering the booty call text, or speaking out for your needs, this is for you! It's time to start being ok with being weird...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there podcast listeners and welcome back to the Love Life podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | I am of course your host Mr. Stephen Hussie and welcome. Welcome if it's your first time. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome if it's your 50th time. I am still here in Old London town and I want to talk |
| 0:46.1 | about awkward conversations. Specifically there was a blog I wrote and I posted it up the |
| 0:54.1 | other day and it is titled It's Not Weird to Ask for What You Want. And this is the |
| 1:01.7 | blog about talking about your standards, having those conversations that maybe make you feel |
| 1:07.6 | a little uncomfortable early on but that are so crucial to being able to actually feel |
| 1:14.9 | comfortable in your integrity that you're actually saying what you need to someone. So |
| 1:21.8 | I'm going to begin at the beginning of this and just work through the piece as I do sometimes |
| 1:27.3 | in these podcasts and kind of give a little comment as I'm going and tell you about a couple |
| 1:32.8 | of the women's response to this. So I'll begin at the beginning. Okay. I spent a month last |
| 1:41.8 | year on tour speaking across the USA with my brother Matthew and one thing that amazed me was how |
| 1:48.9 | many women told me that they want to get a guy to call more or to get a guy to call at all to |
| 1:56.9 | which I would reply why don't you ask. The answer of course was that would be weird or I don't |
| 2:06.3 | want to be desperate. This to my mind is one of the biggest problems we face in dating. Call it |
| 2:13.2 | a lack of confidence, unassertiveness or just trying to quote play the game but so many of us |
| 2:19.9 | are guilty of avoiding saying what we want for a fear of not being chill enough. This doesn't just |
| 2:27.7 | happen with getting a guy to call more. It also happens with wanting him to arrange a real date. |
| 2:34.1 | Wanting to know where you stand with someone. Are we in a relationship or not or saying that you |
| 2:40.8 | would rather move slower and see if you have a real connection before you get physically intimate if |
| 2:45.7 | that's a particular standard you have. It's a very bizarre trade. Will risk wasting time? Will |
| 2:53.7 | risk inefficiency and disappointment in exchange for the overvalued good of not seeming needy? |
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