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How To Get Him To Do What You Want

By Deborah Bennett, Senior Editor May 5, 2009 2:20 pm

We’ve all heard the saying “You can’t change a man,” well the folks at cosmo.com says you can train them, and it comes from an unlikely source: animal trainers.

We know you so want in on this. That’s why Cosmo uncovered time-tested methods used by the most successful animal trainers on the planet. Then we got top psychologists to show you how to apply those techniques to your guy.

Would you change for a guy?

Read on and you will soon be able to teach him some new tricks

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Indulge His Playfulness

As Used on Chimpanzees
These primates are big mischief makers, so getting them to calm down can be a real bitch. Luckily, if you indulge their silly side, you have a good shot at getting them to pay attention. “When we need the chimps to perform a task, we get on their level and play with them for 5 or 10 minutes,” says Eugene Cussons, rescue director on Animal Planet’s Escape to Chimp Eden. Once they’ve had some fun, they’re more willing to heed commands because they instinctively know it’s their turn to return the favor.

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Apply It to Your Guy
No matter how old they are, men never quite lose touch with the playful, naughty boy within. Too bad they often pick the worst times to bring out that brat – like when you’re running late for work or need them to do something around the house. To get what you need done, “indulge him with a few minutes of acting goofy,” says Anthony Riche, PhD, author of Finally! How to Stop Dating Losers Forever. Then tell him you’ll finish playing with him later, as long as he takes out the trash or does whatever else you need him to do. Since his mind and body are now surging with feel-good chemicals from your brief, fun exchange, he’s less likely to wrinkle his nose at the request, says Riche. Use this technique consistently and, over time, he’ll be less likely to associate chores with drudgery.

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TAGS: animals, chores, relationships, Training
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  • lips03
    lips03
    5-5-2009 10:01 pm

    Personally I have always felt if I wanted to train something I would buy a dog. I dont have a dog so that tells you how interested I am in training. Second these are men you are talking about not play things. If a man is going to change it will be because he made the choice to, not because you “trained” him. People show you who they are its your job to pay attention. Based on what they show you, you have the choice to deal with them or leave them alone. So if the man your dealing with isnt taking out the trash or whatever I think it would probably be better to ask him, “Babe would you take out the trash please.” Theres no need to play a game with him. Men are not mind readers they dont think anything like women and they dont try. Your best bet is to just be direct with the man your dealing with. Either he will comply or he will not. If he doesnt thats your que to leave him alone, all of this can be done w/o playing a game. Botton line your not going to change a man he has to want to change on his own. If you think about it would you want a man trying to change you? Probably not so either accept him for who he is on keep it moving.

  • capoeira1
    capoeira1
    5-5-2009 7:05 pm

    meant to say don’t

  • capoeira1
    capoeira1
    5-5-2009 7:04 pm

    why do the have something for women on how to make a guy do want they want when most women do even feel attraction for a guy that does that in the first place. most of the time that individual will end up as the best friend or the “person you can talk to”.

  • GenuineDRAFT713
    GenuineDRAFT713
    5-5-2009 5:10 pm

    wow what a waste of internet

  • IWalkAlone247
    IWalkAlone247
    5-5-2009 5:08 pm

    I can’t put it any better than the guys who posted before me….but i will say this much……

    Chicks ARE always trying to change a guy….but they are the same fools who say (in the most hoodrattiest voice I can imagine) “I ain’t changin’ fah NO man”. Come on now….

    Guys are just as emotional as chicks are. That’s already been established. Only difference is most guys don’t show it, or the keep is jammed down so they don’t look like less of a man in their eyes…

    So like someone brilliantly stated before me…keep following these so called experts and that b***h Steve Harvey, and you’re setting yourself up to hail really badly…

  • IWalkAlone247
    IWalkAlone247
    5-5-2009 4:59 pm

    See now…had a guy wrote a bug comparing chicks to the last freakin thing we pooped out last week, then there’d be a problem….

    And the name of that book is utterly f**king STUPID!!…”How to stop dating losers forever”??…Are you f**king KIDDING ME?? Chicks PREFER to deal with losers, abusers, wannabe thugs, and everything else under the sun that looks all nice in rap videos and junk that will more than likely knock their dumb asses up and end up in prison or never wanna see their kids after they’re born….so what f**king sense does that book make?

    See now…you chicks keep following bulls**t like this and ANYTHING that f**king cornball Steve Harvey says and you’re only setting yourselves up for horrible failure….

  • burgstyle82
    burgstyle82
    5-5-2009 4:09 pm

    Cosmo? Stop reposting crap articles from White Planet thinking it applies to everyone.

    Women: If you want a man do what you ask, respect him as a man and do what he asks you as well. Also, if you want to stop dating losers forever you need to first stop being a loser your damn self. Losers attract losers.

  • F2daG
    F2daG
    5-5-2009 3:58 pm

    Yeah this is some off the wall BS right here. Why do men always have to be refered as some damn chimps or monkeys? Women are always trying to train a man to do whatever they want. Like my man Dark_Zero said, “I will do alot if you just display respect, love, and interest in me as well.” Women should realize that men are always eager to do things for the woman they care about. So don’t play yourself by listening to these so called experts, because I guarantee it’s a bitter woman who has been done wrong by the men in her life. So let’s cut out all the analytical games, because we’re all adults. Well for the most part some of us are.

  • C4pricorn
    C4pricorn
    5-5-2009 3:57 pm

    great article that shows how much this person that wrote it doesnt know s**t….but compared to the rest of these articles, none of these writers/editors are any good so it comes as no surprise to me.

  • Dark_Zero
    Dark_Zero
    5-5-2009 3:03 pm

    First off men are not f**king chimps and I find that offensive. Blackplanet run a article about how to get women to do what a man wants her to do to make it fair. It’s not always about a man pleasing a woman but sometimes a woman pleasing a man. I will do alot if you just display respect, love, and interest in me as well. Men have emotions and conversation too, just because you haven’t ran across it yet, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Both of these examples sound like how to get a 6 year old to do chores and any REAL man would agree…The more women go by these so called experts, the more you will lose your man possibly..and experts, try being more realistic than putting a man down as like we are children and chimps. I read right through this B.S.

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