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There’s nothing quite like listening to the one you love wax poetic about their love for you and the ways you are special to them. When it comes to experiencing love, we are all unique and complex people with equally unique and complex love languages. But to be sure, there are patterns, themes, and trends that resonate with most men’s experiences of feeling love. Likewise, there are actions women can take that result in predictable outcomes — whether that’s having a guy fall deeper in love or watching him fall right out of love.

Happy single people are just like happily coupled people. Entrusting the sacred task of caring for you to anyone else can feel like a delicious perk, but it’s far from a necessity. Happy-making habits will get you a long way towards not only being “content” as a single person but towards truly loving your single self too. So, to help you along here is some advice from those of us ALREADY rocking the happy single life.

A wise woman once said, “An honest person will tell you when they’ve lied. It’s easier than you think, but first, we have to understand the why of the lie. It’s a knee-jerk compulsion — a primal response to a perceived threat. In layman’s terms, that means it’s normal.

Maybe it started when your kindergarten friend pulled you aside and whispered a warning into your ear after seeing you dash across the schoolyard in a game of kissing tag at recess. Certainly, some helpful female family member or friend laid down the facts for you when Aunt Flow came for her first visit. We, women, have been cautioning each other and having each other’s backs about men since the beginning of time, but some of the things we share about what men want are just bold-faced lies (whether we know it or not). Get the top three worst offenders…and the truth about what’s really going on with men of all ages by reading my article on YourTango.com here.