Jonathan Aslay
Midlife dating and relationship coach, self-love advocate, founder of Understand Men Now, and author of "What The Heck Is Self-Love Anyway?" and "Understand Men NOW."
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Sep 19, 2026
JohnHOST
communicating,
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You could tell she had a lot of animosity about past relationship and she was lacking a sense of warmth and receptivity.
Jonathan AslayGUEST
So that's certainly a trait that, you know, most everybody appreciates in one another.
Jonathan AslayGUEST
You know, I would say without a doubt, the second one that I'm about to share, which is emotional maturity and self-awareness.
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These are traits that, quite frankly, most humans are still at the infancy stage at emotional maturity and self-awareness.
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JohnHOST
So now would the converse be the same? You said there's overlap,
Jonathan AslayGUEST
So, you know, what's interesting is by the time he passed away, I'd already began a journey of self-discovery when I went through a divorce about 13 years earlier.
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Etu DanielHOST
What will you say to someone or what will you remind someone listening right now who feels emotionally broken and unworthy of love?
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You can go to your Instagram and TikTok and your s- Facebook, and you'll probably come across 95% of rhetoric that is just not only bad dating advice, but it's rage bait advice.
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It's designed to get you riled up at either, you know, close to hating men or hating women, and it just inflames a, you know, an, you know, a negative picture.
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[lip smack] And if you feed that negative picture, you will just continually experience what you don't want.
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What it requires is a complete paradigm shift, a shift to love, a shift to, to being crystal clear on what it is that you need from a relationship, what you desire.
Jonathan AslayGUEST
Paint a picture of what it looks like and, and paint a picture on hope and love and knowing.
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