A short advice segment from Connor Beaton arguing that many women want partners who can tolerate their disappointment and maintain personal values and boundaries. Beaton warns that consistently giving in teaches a partner she controls decisions; instead, men should embody integrity, strength, and stick to their principles even if it frustrates their partner.
Women want to know that they can be disappointed in you and that you will be okay. You'll still hold your ground. A lot of men lack the internal tolerance with a woman's disappointment. They'll ask you to go do something that you're just not going to do. They want to know that you will hold firm on your values, on your principles, even if she's disappointed. Because here's the thing. If you don't, and when you don't, and you. And if you do that for long enough, what it teaches that woman is that she has total control in the relationship. She begins to know. I can tell you what to do and when to do it, and you will. And for the majority of women, that is not what they want in a relationship. They want a man who has a sense of strength, of integrity, and who will set those morals and values and virtues up in such a way where he sticks to them, he lives them, he embodies them, even if it causes her frustration.
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