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Modern Dating Has Changed, But A Professional Wingman Says These 6 Lessons Haven’t

Modern Dating Has Changed, But A Professional Wingman Says These 6 Lessons Haven’t

Since I was a teenager, I’ve always enjoyed reading Jake’s column in Glamour magazine. Since 1956, it’s been penned by a slew of anonymous, single men who’ve helped countless women navigate the dating world by writing honestly and openly about the game of love from a man’s perspective. In 2012, one of the Jakes wrote a book, Always Hit On The Wingman: And 9 Other Secret Rules For Getting The Love Life You Want. He compiled 10 of the most important dating lessons he and the other Jakes before him relayed to women that still hold.  Usually, when I read these types of books, I think the advice would only work in a perfect world. But when reading Jake’s book, I found myself dog-earring almost every other page as a reminder to remember the points he was making. It’s become one of those books that I want to send a copy to all of my girlfriends, single, in a relationship, engaged, whatever, because they could all learn a thing or two from the Jakes’ collective …