Love Life with Matthew Hussey - (Rewind): The UNEXPECTED Way to Make Them Want MORE With You

Episode Date: March 21, 2025

We’ve been told from a very young age to “play it cool” . . . But as we grow up, we realize that when we feel we need to “play it cool” to keep someone interested, that often means we’re feeling anything but cool . . . and it usually comes from a place of insecurity or a fear of being rejected. Pretty soon, we find ourselves calibrating our conversations and contorting ourselves to meet the other person’s needs so we don’t come off as needy or a nuisance, and little by little, we start to show them that our needs can be ignored with no repercussions . . . In today’s Rewind episode, you’ll learn the best way to increase attraction and investment in a way that doesn’t diminish your value or make you feel like a nuisance simply for stating your needs. --- ►► Ask Matthew AI Your Biggest Dating Question for Free Now at. . . → http://www.AskMH.com ►► Order My New Book, "Love Life" at → http://www.LoveLifeBook.com ►► FREE Video Training: “Dating With Results” → http://www.DatingWithResults.com

If I text you first, I could be perceived as difficult, a nuisance, over the top, too much work. But as long as I hang back, you'll still want me. One of the most common mistakes that people make when they want more with someone is playing it too cool. Have you ever played it too cool? Not asking for things, not wanting to be demanding, not wanting to pester someone, because you're worried that if you do, you will lose your value in their eyes. That your value comes from being chill,

indifferent, easy, convenient, and that if you were suddenly to start asking for what you actually want that person would leave. There's the famous monologue in the movie Gone Girl where she is talking about what it is to be a cool girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Being the cool girl means I'm a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping,

who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she's hosting the world's biggest culinary gangbang while somehow maintaining a size two. Because cool girls are above all, hot. Hot and understanding. Cool girls never get angry.

They only smile in a trigrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me. I don't mind. I'm the cool girl." Now that monologue struck a chord for good reason because it really explained the feeling of so many women about the impossibility of what they needed to be and represent, which is everything. I need to be everything all of the time.

Not only do I need to be everything all of the time, but I need to ask for nothing in return. Because what that monologue does very, very well is it shows the utter imbalance at the extreme of giving everything, being everything, providing everything and getting nothing for it. Just being this sort of vessel to be used for the juice to be wrung out of with the guy not having to do anything to earn that.

And it's that part of it that I wanna pick up on because I actually believe that real life, real relationships are much more hopeful because there is this hidden secret to attraction psychology that is not revealed in that monologue. Now I think that there is this perceived safety in being, I don't want to just say the cool girl could be the cool guy, for anyone who is going into dating with an insecurity that

they are not enough or that they have to try to hold on to someone, they have to try to prove their value. Anyone in that situation is susceptible to slipping into the cool girl or the cool guy mask, right? Because it is a mask, because we don't feel that cool really. We do care more than we let on. We do want more than we're telling someone we want. And things are pissing us off and upsetting us more than we're telling someone we want and things are pissing us off and upsetting

us more than we're actually saying. But it's a mask that we put on because we think that that's what someone wants. It feels safe to do it because it means, A, you're less likely to reject me if I don't ask for anything, if I don't make life difficult for you, if I just please you, which is that typical people-pleaser mindset. As long as I ask for nothing and give you everything, you'll still want me in your life. But there's also this knowledge

that if someone does reject us, we can just go, I wasn't even really asking for anything anyway, so I wasn't rejected, I wasn't asking for anything. anything anyway, so I wasn't rejected. I wasn't asking for anything. So there's a lot of protection, or at least what we see as protection and safety in being that. The problem is, it's actually the opposite. It makes us more likely to be taken advantage of, either by someone who is oblivious to the fact that we're giving everything and they're giving very little in return

and just takes us for granted, or taken advantage of by someone much more malevolent who sees this as a golden opportunity to manipulate and take advantage of someone who will never ask for anything in return and will just go along with it. But there is another reason why being the cool, indifferent person who gives a lot but doesn't ask for anything is really destructive for attraction. One of the things we have to understand about attraction is that for someone to continue to be attracted, they need to feel like they care.

And the psychology of attraction that a lot of people miss is that what makes us care about something is investing in something. That's actually what makes us care. That's what makes us wanna give more. Investing in something or someone actually makes us invest more. It becomes this, it gives us this momentum, right?

What did, me and Jameson found a dog one day in LA. It was by the side of the street and we were very careful not to name this dog because some part of us knew that we would, we took this dog home, we gave it a little, that was a mistake when we cut his hair because once we'd give him a little haircut and a wash, we started going, hmm, this is,

we've just invested a little bit in this dog. I remember that day thinking we are not naming this dog. We're taking it to the vet. We're gonna find out whose it is and that's where it will stay or be killed. No, I didn't, I just wanna say it did have a happy ending. It did not get killed because we put out the word on social media and said, does anyone want this dog?

And one of our lovely previous retreat attendees said, I will take that dog. So it found a lovely home. But at the time we didn't wanna name it because it was a little bit of investment. We have to start making this psychology work for us when it comes to our dating lives. We think by never getting someone to invest

and ask by not asking for anything, that we're somehow making ourselves indispensable in their lives. Oh, I'm just showing my value to you, but I'm also not being a nuisance to you. Because if I ask for something, if I tell you what I want, if I make you come to my part of town,

if I text you first, I could be perceived as difficult, a nuisance, over the top, too much work. But as long as I hang back, you'll still want me. But what's actually happening is this person isn't getting the experience of investing in you. And that's what makes us care. Look at the people who obsess over their cars the most.

They're the ones who actually wash their cars, the ones who tinker with them, the ones who upgrade them. Look at how much that person cares about their car. Compare having your own house that you own to a hotel room you stay in. When you leave a hotel room, do you think, I must leave this in such great condition because I really care about what happens next

to this hotel room? Or do you just kind of go, I'm done with it now. You know, I'm gonna leave. Whereas the house that you buy, even if where you live is a 10th as nice as the hotel room that you rent for a night, you love that house because you invest in it, because it's yours, because you do the upgrades,

because you do the thing, you give it love and care. And that's what makes you care about your house. Why would we think it's any different with us in dating? The shocking, unexpected truth is that people will care about us more, they will want more with us if we actually get them investing in us. And while that doesn't mean that someone we just met, we should make huge demands of,

it does mean we should pay attention to ourselves and our behavior when the pendulum swings all the way to the other direction because we are afraid, we are insecure. And that is what the call girl and call guy mask really is. So what's my message in this video? I want us to start becoming a little more brave,

a little less cool, a bit more courageous, a little more honest and a little less reverent, dare I say, in making demands of someone. Whether that is something small like, and this may not seem like a demand, but being okay with texting someone first, because screw it, that's what you felt like doing. And if they don't text back or they don't respond in good time, then fine. You can direct your attention elsewhere, but you're not gonna pretend you're not interested

in texting them just because they haven't texted you yet. Or demanding that on the next date it be on your side of town if the last couple of dates were closer to them. Or saying what you want in order to invest more and want us to become more courageous in these things. And when we've spent a lot of our life playing nice, being cool, right? Because those are really two versions of the same thing, right? If I'm really nice to you all the time and I never ask for anything, that's the sort of fawning version of the same insecurity.

Being cool is just, I'm insecure, I don't wanna get rejected, but I'm gonna wear that as indifference. But I want us to recognize that the only real great relationships are gonna come out of us being brave enough to ask for what we want and learning how to communicate that, learning how to calibrate that. Thanks for listening everybody.

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