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The Mating Dance: finding your center in courtship

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Hi! I'm Malcolm Ocean. Recently I got married and friends started asking me for advice on courtship. In those conversations, I found myself not only sharing personal experiences, but also applying insights from my years of research on non-naive trust (trust that respects and integrates distrust). I want to show people how to not gaslight themselves in romance so they can fall sanely in love, so I'm developing this online course to share the patterns & principles I've noticed. You've done enough “dating indefinitely” and want to get real about courting. Your current situation: you have a person with whom there’s some mutual attraction and sense of romantic possibility. You might have just met last week, or you might be years in and talking about getting married, or you might be anywhere in between. Your desired situation: stably mated for life. A commitment that you can tell is robust. Some of what I have to say applies to a wide variety of life paths (some even applies outside of roman

The Mating Dance: finding your center in courtship The Mating Dance Finding your center in courtship If you already know you want to buy the course, no need to scroll. Price is $200, sessions are 4 Mondays in July, either: 9am-11am or 5:30-7:30pm (Pacific time) To learn more, keep reading! --> Hi! I'm Malcolm Ocean. Recently I got married and friends started asking me for advice on courtship. In those conversations, I found myself not only sharing personal experiences, but also applying insights from my years of research on non-naive trust (trust that respects and integrates distrust). I want

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