She caught him unawares and immediately surrounded by a high fence of love that he could never climb over.

I’m quite sure that the great number of relationships can be saved, though there are some couples with no positive future. The quantity of such couples is much less than you believe. And if you think that the only way to make your relationship better is to change your partner, it’s surely not your case. More often a relationship breaks down because one of the partners or even both of them don’t want to take the responsibility for it. And that is quite a different problem than lack of compatibility.

If you are alone now and want to find a partner for stable relationship, you should first realize, what exactly you are looking for and what are the most important characteristics for you in the member of the opposite sex. What features are more significant for you? While answering this question, try to avoid the combination of incompatible features. For example women are looking for well-brought-up bullies, dominant admirers, strong romantics, self-confident and self-sufficient family men, wealthy and developed guardians, sexual and funny respectable men. At the same time men would like to find a sex-bomb, who will become a perfect mother, a caring hostess with dignity, an exemplary wife, who would always grow personally and would not rest on her laurels, and a woman who will be eager to support her husband at tough moments. If these combinations remind you of your dreams, try to think of a real person whom you have met and who had all these traits. If there is one, are you sure you knew that person well? Thinking of a person you wish to find, try to rely on the images of your real friends from real life. The more accurate and realistic picture you get, the greater your chances of future success are.

After you have created a portrait of your potential partner, the time for actions comes. The partner’s search process has much in common with job application, which usually consists of:

* Resume writing and placement.

* Using all possible personal connections.

* Direct search and addressing attractive employers.

* Regular interviewing.

I remember my previous job application when I asked the professionals for help in writing resume. Then I sent it to everywhere I could and visited lots of interviews. I rejected the first suggestions because I wanted to estimate the maximal height I could clear. While looking for a partner, one should behave the same way: place his/her personal on dating sites, go out as often as possible, talk to different people in public areas, and try to visit places where a chance to meet a potential partner is really good.

Every time you meet a new person ask yourself about the life you may have together in several years. Do you like this kind of life? It is interesting, but even being in love with their partners, people often give a negative answer. A vice versa situation, when a person suits you rationally but does not attract you instinctively or emotionally is also widely-spread.

Of course if we are speaking about serious relationship, the answer “Yes” given by your logic is desirable. For short love affairs the response of instinctive brain is much more important. If your boyfriend or girlfriend corresponds to 70% of your demands, you should definitely think of this person as a possible candidate for stable relationship. Simply because it is extremely difficult to find a fully suitable partner. If you want to make your choice, you should have what to choose from. That’s why you should go out, meet different people, communicate and flirt with them if you want to get an idea about sex-and-marriage market.

Before we start our talk about where and how to meet people let’s do some preparatory work. The work which can take several weeks or even several years, but it is sure to make you more self-confident and, consequently, to raise your chances for success.

1. Take maximum of your appearance

Visit your hairdresser, make a new haircut or a hairdo. Try to choose the style which your potential partner will like. If you think you are a bad stylist, you have got two possible variants: to take classical style, which is liked by the majority of people, or consult a professional. Anyway you will not only get a new image but also feel as if you are a different person. You will get rid of your daily routine which sets a lot of limitations on your behavior.

2. Practice your posture and gait

If you want to get good gait and posture you should practice not less than an hour every day during several weeks. At these moments you should throw away all unnecessary thoughts because it is very difficult for your brain to control several issues at the same time. Keep your chin up - it influences your manners in a positive way.

3. Slow down your movements

Slow motion is one of the main attributes of self-confident people. Such people are never in a hurry, they don’t think about how they look in other people’s eyes and they don’t intend to grab attention of the others. That is why they have no reasons for fuss. Slow movements in public places are the best exercise to train this skill. The more often you do it, the more self-confident you feel.

4. Smile gently

What kind of facial expression do we usually see amongst self-confident successful people? Well, they smile a lot. But do it very slightly. It’s like a smile of a soccer player who has just scored a very nice goal. Or a smile of a hospitable proprietor greeting his/her guests. Well, it looks like if you recall something very funny but suppress your laugh. It is a smile of power and calmness. This smile is to be trained in front of the mirror better by taking some popular actor as an example, e.g.: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger or Sean Connery. Then you are to go out to the "field" and perfect your new smile in your everyday life.

5. Occupy more space

The majority of people in the crowd tend to hug the wall or stay totally unnoticeable. Those who possess charisma try to be in the middle of the crowd, attract as much attention as possible and occupy maximum possible space. They usually move more actively through space, maintain an open posture, speak loudly and feel themselves relaxed. Take it as a rule: in public places to grab attention of the others, occupy with your posture and your motion as much space as you can. This will fix even more eyes of the others on you than bright clothes or loud laughter.

6. Look in people’s faces, especially during communication

The ability of looking into his/ her face for a long time is a gesture of a leader, who is able to arouse trust and win favor. It is an excellent opportunity to feel yourself more confident and and raise your self-esteem. That is the exercise to be practiced in ordinary conversations as well as while talking to people you don’t know. The more you enlist your efforts for not taking your eyes off your interlocutor looking at you, the more rapidly you develop your communication and presentation skills as well as your ability to position yourself in conversations.

7. Communicate with a large percentage of people

It’s not difficult to develop your communication skills - simply communicate more. Use all the opportunities to talk to your friends and especially to people you don’t know that you haven’t used before. Greet all the persons who go in for sports with you, ask a passerby about current time, tell a compliment to a person you don’t know, propose to do a tea break to your colleagues, call the people whom you haven’t talked with for ages and so on and so forth.

8. Set a preliminary visual contact

From my personal experience statistics reveals that visual contact being set initially will increase the percentage of successful acquaintances by two times. That means if you are smiling and have caught the glance of a stranger before talking to him/her your communication process is supposed to be easier as if you already know each other non-verbally and just need to get to know each other verbally. You should start with a simple exercise: establish a positive eye contact with members of the opposite sex in public areas. In this respect, a sidelong look, i.e. from behind the shoulder or any obstacle, is more beneficial since such element of playfulness attracts and intrigues much more than a normal straight look. Your old mates may also assist you actively in such training. The only thing you need is to invite some of them to a meeting and spend a bulk of time without saying a word and communicating mostly just via body language.

9. Gradually invade the personal space of your interlocutor

It will be much easier to arouse trust of a stranger if you start approaching him or her slowly invading his/her personal space which is about 2-3 feet from a person. If you do it slow enough the person tends to trust you and at the same time is less likely to feel aggression. The overall process of gradual invasion is split into several phases. First of all you should enter his personal space by one part of your body, i.e. a hand or a leg or, what’s even better, by an inclination of your head or trunk. Also, it is desirable that at the beginning of a conversation with a stranger you have your body located sideways to that of him/her at 180° angle and your looks encounter by heads rotation. In this position unfamiliar people communicate more comfortably and openly.

10. Ask open-ended questions and listen carefully

The sales theory gives us a surprising rule: the more your interlocutor talks the more he or she trusts you. However, just knowing this rule is not enough to use it effectively. Most of us want to be like stars and such need often leads us to speak actively rather than to listen actively. We are personally convinced that with the help of our speech we score points but we often find ourselves going round in circles. By switching our attention to the inner world of the interlocutor we may evoke his/her attraction towards us since the main direction of his/her thoughts will be the major topic of your conversation. The best way to turn the conversation the proper way is to ask open-ended questions that start with "What," "How," "Why," etc.

The answer to the question "Where to get acquainted?" is “Everywhere where members of the opposite sex exist”. As for me, I prefer to do it in the street since the street unites many various places in it. The street is always available, random and dynamic which makes it an excellent training field for seduction skills.

How to make the acquaintance of him/her? It is not so important what to say when you meet the appropriate person if you carry out a preliminary communication training which I’ve presented to you above. The more creativity, improvisation and innovation you apply - the higher efficiency you will get eventually. But for those of you who enjoy using patterns I will provide few examples.

Introduction to a woman:

- Miss, excuse me, do you have a thread? No? Then let’s just get to know each other anyway. I was thinking threads would help us to be tied up to each other but I see we have to do it with the help of words. My name is Dmitry.

If she has a spool of threads by chance in her bag you may compare it with a sewing machine, and then tie up your and her index fingers with the words “Thank you. You see how quickly we were able to tie up our relationship”.

Introduction to a man:

- You look just like my psychoanalyst...

- Really?

- But he already has a girlfriend.

That opens a great opportunity to find out whether the man is ready for a relationship with you. If he explains that he also has a girlfriend, it's easy to continue the dialog, saying: "You have understood me incorrectly. Why do men always seek out the hidden meaning in ordinary utterances of women?!” If he says he does not have a girlfriend yet then say the following: "I think I am not ready to start the relationship so quickly since don’t know each other at all." Well, in both cases a man will be provoked to actively participate in the dialogue.

Universal introduction:

Look, smiling at the man/woman, until as he/she notices and then say:

- Why are you staring at me?

- I am not.

- OK, then why are you not staring?

Every time you try to get acquainted with a new person you should always remember that it is a challenge both him/her and for you. You are like checking your skill in balancing between interest and indifference. From the very first minute you try to gain control over your new-born relationship and the earlier you do it, the easier it would be later to run them.

However, despite the possibility of practicing first impression skills, creating the desired mood and selecting the most appropriate dating methods you still won’t attract everybody. One of the major discoveries that I made at the beginning when I learned the specifics intersexual wars was that the realization of a point that ATTRACTION IS NOT A PERSONAL CHOICE OF A HUMAN BEING. Your education and your plans as well as all of your logical arguments and conversations with your friends are POWERLESS in front of the choice being made by your libido. Your mind and logical thinking may tell you that you choose the wrong person which is not the best for you and vice versa, but your attraction will surely win.

If while meeting with a member of the opposite sex the first impression of you on him/her seemed UNATTRACTIVE, then you have a very LITTLE CHANCE to change it in future. Almost all of your efforts in terms of persuasion and proof will be in vain. Also, the same rule works the opposite way, i.e. if you ATTRACT a person at the first meeting then he/she can do PRACTICALLY NOTHING about it. He/she can’t say to himself/herself: "I will not talk to him because he is rude or impudent and dishonest" or "She is behaving too windy and selfish for me to choose her." On the contrary he/she will say will say: "I love her/him despite everything". No autosuggestion or self-hypnosis is able to change that. What conclusion may we come to from this point?

At first, usually instead of wasting efforts to attract a person who initially was not interested in you it is better to focus your efforts on a different candidate with more enthusiastic attitude towards your.

Secondary, pay close attention to the importance of preliminary work on yourself, on your appearance, on the way you position and behave yourself, on your personal growth. If you learn how to properly make the first impression then everything else begins to matter less.

Now, when I intentionally dramatized a bit let me make some things more clear to you. Despite the fact that a person is not capable to choose whom to be attracted to and whom to be attractive for, you, as an active side, still have a great opportunity to influence the strength of your attractiveness to others. And that is the topic we are going to examine in more detail now.