Get What You Want By Acting Like It

May 13, 2020February 7, 2017 by Shaun Galanos

I wanted a girlfriend, so I acted like I wanted one, and it worked. The intention was set.

I met my last girlfriend on OKCupid. We’re not dating anymore but I still love her. I love most of my exes. Somehow I’m able to stay friends with them. No contact for 6 months probably has something to do with it.

I’d been single for about a year at this point and was starting to feel ready for a relationship. Winter was coming, I’d need someone to cuddle with on those cold San Francisco nights.

I set my intention that I was looking for partnership. I ‘put it out to the universe’ or whatever that meant.

Is your new relationship the ‘real deal’? Does it pass the baseline test?

August 29, 2020January 18, 2017 by Shaun Galanos

I’ve fallen in love a few times in my life

More if you count high school. I don’t. Puppy love. I didn’t know what I was doing back then. I still don’t but I’m OK with it now. Everything’s going to be alright. I’m at peace with not knowing. It’s freeing not to know.

My relationships all ended for good reasons. Don’t most relationships end for good reasons? I’ll have to think about that one.

Fear of rejection and what to say after she says no

August 29, 2020December 8, 2016 by Shaun Galanos

Fear of rejection is what’s always stopped me from asking women out. How do we overcome the crippling fear of rejection when asking someone out? How do we overcome hearing no and get ready to do it again?

Here’s how I learned to accept the fear of rejection, walk through it, and plan for the eventual no.

I Quit Tinder And It Made Me Happy And Less Lonely

May 29, 2017December 1, 2016 by Shaun Galanos

I quit Tinder because it was making me unhappy and I was lonelier than ever. Here’s how quitting Tinder has increased my happiness and made me less lonely.