About Dr. Duana Welch and her work
About Dr. Duana Welch
The Confident Partner Choice Blueprint is the only comprehensive program that helps successful singles over 50 find a loving, committed partner they’re genuinely excited to be with—without settling, wasting years on the wrong person, repeating harmful patterns, or giving up the life they’ve worked so hard to create.
The Blueprint is led and created by Dr. Duana Welch, a 30-year dating coach whose expertise in applying the science of happy relationships resulted in her role as the founding expert for the Paired couples app and the author of the Love Factually books. Dr. Welch served for two decades as a university professor (PhD: Developmental Psychology, University of Florida, 1998), during which she won numerous teaching awards. She has written for Psychology Today and has contributed relationship science and dating advice information to Time Magazine, Newsweek, and numerous other media outlets and podcasts.
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About the Confident Partner Choice Blueprint:
The Confident Partner Choice Blueprint helps successful singles over 50 find a loving, committed partner they’re genuinely excited to be with—without settling, wasting years on the wrong person, repeating harmful patterns, or giving up the life they’ve worked so hard to create.
Simply put: With this Blueprint, you choose the right partner from the very start—not just find one—and you build something lasting.
In this three-phase program, all clients receive a weekly coaching experience with Dr. Welch, who created the Blueprint based on relationship science and three decades of coaching experience. All clients also get full access to supporting materials created and delivered by her to guide and continue progress between sessions. Additionally, depending on the level of support chosen by the individual, clients either engage 1:1 private strategy sessions and priority text-and-email support, or meaningful interaction within a small-group community of carefully selected singles like them. Most clients complete the Blueprint in approximately 8 to 10 months.
- Clarify helps you understand what you truly want and why previous choices may not have worked.
- Select helps you recognize and pursue the right opportunities while avoiding costly detours.
- Commit helps you build a healthy, lasting relationship once you’ve found someone promising.
Phase 1: CLARIFY
From confusion, fear, and second-guessing to calm clarity and self-trust.
- Define the kind of partner and relationship that truly fits your life now, not 20 years ago.
- Identify your real non‑negotiables so you stop wondering if your standards are too high, too low, or simply right for you.
- Understand the patterns that have led to unavailable, wrong, or disappointing partners—and learn how to stop repeating them.
- Learn to choose from confidence and self-trust instead of fear, urgency, or loneliness.
Phase 2: SELECT
From wasting time, energy, and emotion to choosing the right partner early.
- Build a dating strategy that fits your personality, lifestyle, goals, and preferred ways of meeting people.
- Learn to distinguish genuine interest and commitment from ambiguity, inconsistency, and time-wasting before you become emotionally invested.
- Balance attraction with alignment so you stop choosing people who are exciting but wrong for your future.
- Set and maintain healthy boundaries so you confidently move toward the right people and away from the wrong ones, without guilt or panic.
Phase 3: COMMIT
From early-dating uncertainty to building a relationship that lasts—happily.
- Avoid common early-relationship mistakes that can derail a promising connection before it has a chance to thrive.
- Use proven communication practices that deepen trust, closeness, and long-term relationship satisfaction.
- Move toward commitment naturally and confidently—without rushing, guessing, or ignoring important realities.
- Protect and strengthen the relationship you’ve found so it continues growing.
Happy couples do specific things that protect and grow their connection across the years, and you can learn them too. Commit ensures that you don’t sabotage something good; you don’t commit to the wrong person; and you do keep love going once you’ve found it.
If you’re ready to stop settling, stop wasting time, stop doubting yourself, and start consistently attracting and choosing better partners, the Confident Partner Choice Blueprint is for you.
Ready to explore whether the Blueprint is right for you?
Schedule a free introductory meeting with Dr. Welch.
Duana@LoveScienceMedia.com
Text: 512.529.7499
About the Love Factually books:
About Love Factually: 10 Proven Steps from I Wish to I Do: Revised and Updated
Human nature hasn’t changed. Dating has! Dr. Duana Welch and science are back to help. Still the only fact-based book to take men and women from before-you-meet until you commit, Love Factually blends heart, soul, and science in this fully revised and updated edition. Read the international bestseller Dr. David Buss calls “A must-read: gripping, science-based, and brimming with actions to improve your love life.” In a genre long on opinion and short on proof, Love Factually puts all the evidence in your corner for the most important and daunting task of our lives: finding and keeping The One.
Cover design by Domini Dragoone
About Love Factually for Single Parents [& Those Dating Them]:
Marriages may come and go, but parenthood is forever. But what if you could have both—a great family life, and a happy lifetime love? Enter the second book in the Love Factually series: Love Factually For Single Parents [& Those Dating Them]—the first guide that relies on science instead of opinion to help this large and growing group of men and women find the right partner not only for themselves, but their families. From getting over your ex to finding time to date, and from finding your partner to blending families, the Single Parents edition of this popular book series paves the way so you win at lifetime love. Now out in audiobook, e-book, and paperback in English worldwide!
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Ready to explore whether the Blueprint is right for you?
Schedule a free introductory meeting with Dr. Welch.
Duana@LoveScienceMedia.com
Text: 512.529.7499
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