{"id":385,"date":"2010-01-15T01:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T09:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:03:37","slug":"q-a-with-carlos-dating-tips-for-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/2010\/01\/q-a-with-carlos-dating-tips-for-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Q &#038; A with Carlos: Dating Tips for Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything is good. I have learned so much from your work. Thank<br \/>\nyou&#8230; I have really changed. I am light years from where I was a<br \/>\nfew months ago. Lots of confidence. Lots of numbers. As many dates<br \/>\nas I can handle. It has been terrific&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am 40 and I have been dating alot of girls that are younger than<br \/>\nme. I almost think I am flying in a &#8220;No fly zone&#8221;. These girls are<br \/>\nall 33 to 38. I think they all want to get married. I am recently<br \/>\ndivorced so I am not getting remarried any time soon. I don&#8217;t tell<br \/>\nthem that.<\/p>\n<p>I do the teasing which I have mastered with your help. All the<br \/>\nAlpha Man stuff. I think my problem is my looks. I have a babyface<br \/>\nso I look alot younger than I am. I have dirty blond hair. I have 2<br \/>\nkids.I look like marrying material. I am tall 6&#8217;6&#8243;. I look like a<br \/>\nDad, Husband. I just read &#8220;The Rules&#8221;, and I know I am in battle<br \/>\nwith them. They are following these things to a T.<\/p>\n<p>I need your help. Although, I look like a nice sweet man, I need to<br \/>\ncome across as<strong> BAD ASS<\/strong>. My looks do not support this. I need more<br \/>\nmeanness. Trust me I am pushing these girls around and not being a<br \/>\nwimpy &#8216;nice guy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What do I do? Am I in the wrong age group? Maybe I should just be<br \/>\nfocused on Divorcees.<\/p>\n<p>If I am not clear, please feel free to ask me some questions.<\/p>\n<p>Master, What do I do?<\/p>\n<p>Chris<br \/>\n______________________<br \/>\n<strong>CARLOS XUMA&#8217;S ADVICE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first thing I&#8217;d do is to lose the attitude of being &#8220;in a<br \/>\nbattle with them.&#8221; You&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re just falling victim to<br \/>\nassuming that a particular author&#8217;s take on men and women is the<br \/>\ncommon or prevalent one. In fact, by viewing yourself as being &#8220;in<br \/>\nbattle&#8221; you lose a lot of the frame you need to at-tract women,<br \/>\nbecause you feel like an adversary, not someone they can feel safe<br \/>\nwith.<\/p>\n<p>Step #1: Get rid of the adversarial approach.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as for looks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Step #2: Get a little &#8216;Bad&#8217; in your image.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to look baby-face-bad-ass. I was talking    about this with some guys in Vegas this weekend, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to leverage your image in such a way that you <strong>maximize      your assets,<\/strong> but provide something to contradict this baby-face. What you&#8217;ll end up with    is something <strong>immensely mysterious and alluring to women<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend something that offsets your younger      looks. Try growing in 2 days worth of beard. I regularly skip a day or two      of shaving (mostly because I use an electric, and that tears up your face)      and it gives you a more &#8220;rugged&#8221; look.<\/p>\n<p>Go out and get some clothes that you would never have worn before. Something    <em>tough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then wear it and <strong>LIVE<\/strong> it.<\/p>\n<p>Too many guys suffer with their current image, solely because they never    dared to see themselves in any other way. You need to break out of this <strong>self-imposed    comfort bubble<\/strong> and become a <strong>fully realized man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You aren&#8217;t your clothes, or your car, or your job.<\/p>\n<p>Step #3: Start thinking and talking more like a bad-ass.<\/p>\n<p>Then start to examine your attitude and see where you&#8217;re still acting like    this image you have of yourself. It sounds to me like you&#8217;re really still    <strong>identifying with your external appearance<\/strong> and it&#8217;s undermining your efforts    to be this tough guy.<\/p>\n<p>Drop the &#8220;push around&#8221; routine and just come from a core of bad-ass.    Try imagining yourself having gone through a comic book nightmare and you    ended up looking like Marvin from &#8220;Sin City&#8221; (Mickey Roarke.)<\/p>\n<p>How would you act then?<\/p>\n<p>How would you behave if you couldn&#8217;t talk?<\/p>\n<p>Your persona is whatever you want to be <strong>in      the moment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU<\/strong> choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTION:<\/p>\n<p>Everything is good. I have learned so much from your work. Thank<br \/>\nyou&#8230; I have really changed. I am light years from where I was a<br \/>\nfew months ago. Lots of confidence. Lots of numbers. As many dates<br \/>\nas I can handle. 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