Dating Essentials for Men

Dating Essentials for Men: Frequently Asked Questions is a companion to Dr. Robert Glover's 2019 book Dating Essentials for Men. Both books teach what Glover calls conscious dating, an approach that helps men create an authentic polarity that draws women to them naturally. He presents it as an alternative to the games, tricks, pickup routines, negging, hypnosis and cocky-funny patter that are standard fare from self-styled dating gurus and pickup artists.

The approach came out of Glover's own experience. He had been a lifelong bad dater, and in his late forties he decided to treat dating as a scientific experiment. He was surprised to find that talking to women, collecting phone numbers, dating several women at once and having frequent sex were far easier than he had believed. Women often approached him or made advances, sometimes on a first date. He built a coaching program from that experiment and has taught it to thousands of men. Glover is also the author of No More Mr. Nice Guy.

This book gathers his answers to nearly 300 frequently asked questions, organized into 97 subjects, on dating, relationships, women and sex. He answers with candor and humor, and his central ideas include that acting is the cure for anxiety, that men should test rather than guess, that men put themselves in the friend zone, and that a woman cannot follow where a man does not lead.

The book aims to help readers overcome self-limiting beliefs, test for interest, push through fear of rejection, and create polarity. It also covers letting go of attachment to outcomes, staying out of the friend zone, taking the lead, building positive emotional tension, embracing a sexual agenda, playing kinky sex games, handling being ghosted and ending things well. Glover presents it, together with the original book, as everything a man needs to attract the women he wants.