How To Get Back With Your Ex
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post You want to reconnect NOW. You fear if too much time lapses your ex will move on to someone new. Like a lost child you wait in place... [...]
Dating in the Time of Bad Advice
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Dating can feel like running a marathon in high-heels and push-up bra... with a bad hangover. The “no rules” free-for-all system we have today puts men in a [...]
Dating ‘Repeats’ | Same Person, Different Package
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post You’ve just come back from a date feeling as though you’re in a time warp. Does it all seem a little too familiar? You may be dating ‘repeats.’ [...]
The Breakup Wisdom I Learned From My Dog
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Dogs have mastered the art of unconditional love. Forgiveness, curiosity, and playfulness are just a few of the life lessons we can learn from our beloved pets. They [...]
How to Translate Your Lover’s Silence
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Are you getting mixed messages from your partner? How do you know what they’re feeling... if they can’t (or won’t) tell you? Whether we’re aware of it or [...]
Why a Little Insecurity Is Good for You
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Why do we feel insecure about our insecurities? Why do we view insecurity as being a bad thing, when it’s something we all experience at certain times in [...]
5 Tips for a Great Valentine’s Day (Whether Single or Partnered)
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post Valentine’s day can be a real head-trip for many of us. Single’s can feel the pressure of not having a partner with whom to share this day of [...]
The Most Overlooked Quality Needed for Relationship Success
By Susan Winter for the Huffington Post How do we know if the person we’re dating is the right choice for our long-term happiness? What steps can we take when the partnership we have is [...]
4 Steps to Spark Your Partner’s Affection This Thanksgiving
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Thanksgiving is the perfect time to accelerate your partner’s affection and passion. It’s the holiday that reminds us to be thankful for all that we have, and to [...]
Why Dating ‘Wrong’ Is Right
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Modern dating has proven to be confusing to everyone. Rules that guided our behavior no longer apply. All the factors surrounding how we meet, date and mate have [...]
5 Tips to Tell if Your Partner’s Lying to You
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post All humans have innate intuition. Yet no one’s cornered the market on this gift better than women. We may not know why we don’t believe what our partner’s [...]
Dating: A Numbers Game You CAN Win
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post You know you want to meet someone special. But thinking about the effort required for hitting the dating scene leaves you exhausted before beginning the journey. Isn’t there [...]
7 Signs You’re in a Band Aid Relationship
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Are you in a lukewarm relationship? One that’s neither great, nor bad? It’s not too hot to burn you, but not too cold to cause discomfort. One where [...]
To Stay, or Leave?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post What do you do when your relationship isn’t working? Whether you’ve been married for 15 years or dating for eight months, the decision whether to stay or leave [...]
5 Principles for Dating Success
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Dating is a venue for creating a rewarding connection with another person. We want to believe all of this just happens naturally. Sometimes it does. However, the ease [...]
The Dating Game of Hot and Cold
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Is your partner playing hot and cold? One minute you’re high on the warmth of their attention, the next minute you’re frozen out and left wondering what happened. [...]
3 Simple Steps for Getting the Love You Want
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Spring has finally arrived. Inspired by the beauty of nature’s rebirth, many singles are enlivened with thoughts of romance. As our hopes and dreams of meeting someone special [...]
Are You Stuck in His ‘Stable’?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Most women prefer to be in some form of “relationship.” No matter how modern those parameters may be, there’s comfort in knowing where we stand with a man. [...]
10 Steps to Moving Beyond the Friend Zone
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Are you stuck in the friend zone? It’s a rotten position to hold when you’d prefer to be the “lover.” The fear of staying trapped in a minimal [...]
Are You Questioning ‘Till Death Do Us Part?’
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Why do we cling so desperately to a relationship that’s died? Because we’ve been told it’s the right choice to make. Leaving a dead relationship takes courage. Staying [...]
Why Valentine’s Day Makes Us Crazy
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Be honest ladies. We’ve all had times when Valentine’s Day made us a little crazy. It’s the one-day each year that has the ability to destabilize even the [...]
Is the First Cut Really the Deepest?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post First love is beautiful in its vulnerability. Our innocence allows us to feel without the hesitation of fear. With no cautionary memories to bind us, we advance toward [...]
3 Simple Steps to Attract Love
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Attracting love is far easier than we’re led to believe. One way to jump-start the process of attracting love is to be aware of what lies in our [...]
From ‘Lonely’ to ‘With Yourself’ This Holiday
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post The holidays can create difficult emotional states for many people. The hype and expectations surrounding this time period are intense. Commercials and movies emphasize happy, loving families enjoying [...]
Why Are You Still Single?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post I have a dear friend in her early 40s. She’s got it all, a great personality and a great life. As a dedicated triathlete she’s physically fit and [...]
Putting the Breaks on a Backpedaling Partner
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post There’s a point in every dating scenario when we know it’s over. Either they aren’t moving toward partnership, or we recognize they’re not the one for us. It [...]
The King Within the Queen
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post The rigors of modern dating can leave many young women wondering about their chances for future happiness in love. Men seem to have endless options for romance, creating [...]
Confessions of a Lazy Lover
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post I must make this admission: I’m lazy lover. I apply no energy whatsoever to creating a love life. Why any man would seek my company at this juncture [...]
So, I’m Supposed to Chase You?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post The birth of the 21st Century didn’t cause our computers to crash. Something more insidious happened. The rules of courtship changed. Men stopped pursuing. In this new millennium, [...]
5 Tips For Dating Younger Men
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post If you’re thinking about dating a younger man, congratulations. Women’s choices have been limited for far too many centuries. With younger men added to the romantic game board, [...]
Is the Price of Admission to the Game of Love Too High?
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post This is the best of all times to be a man. Sex isn’t the promise of a future partnership. It’s a prize that’s given freely at the beginning [...]
The Irrational Fear of Being Alone
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post The fear of being alone is terrifying for most people I know. We've been led to believe that having someone is better than having no one. This [...]
9 Months. 98 Men. Here’s What I’ve Learned
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post I hate dating. There. I’ve said it. Let’s be clear about the mechanics of this concept. Dating is only a flirtatious first sniff of what may later be [...]
Why Smart Professionals Are Stupid Daters
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post A successful venture capitalist can distinguish between a company of true merit and one of false flash, yet fail to see the same in the woman he’s dating. [...]
The Unbroken Heart
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Rare, but it does exist. I know a woman who has never had her heart broken. Something inside her insists upon her leaving the man she is with [...]
A Woman’s Worth
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post We run companies. We run countries. Regardless of advanced college degrees and net worth… at the end of the day a woman’s worth is still judged by youth [...]
The Two Meanings of a Breakup
By Susan Winter for The Huffington Post Breakup can have two distinctly different meanings. They can be exactly what they are, and they can also be the opposite of what they seem to be. A [...]