Entries in Dating coaching (9)

Wednesday
Feb182026

SUCCESSFUL SINGLES 50+: HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PARTNER—NOT JUST FIND ONE

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.

 

About Dr. Duana Welch

The Confident Partner Choice 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 MagazineNewsweek, and numerous other media outlets and podcasts.

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

Monday
Jan152024

GET SCIENCE AND LOVE ON THIS NEW EPISODE WITH DEEPER DATING

When it comes to finding your life partner, have you felt like things aren’t going the way you’d hoped…but you don’t know what might help instead?
If so, then this is THE podcast for you. Oprah featured it. It and its host Ken Page are major! I have wanted to be on Ken Page’s Deeper Dating for *years*—it’s soooo good. Ken is all about love, respect, and kindness.
And I’m delighted to be on episode #175, where we discuss:
• What does it mean to date the hard way?
How can you re-brand the term ‘high-status’?
• What’s the difference between that and hard-to-get?
• What to do between the first contact and the first date?
• Why and which boundaries are so helpful in dating?
• Are there benefits to waiting to have sex?
• What does science say about setting up a dating profile?
• How to ask the hard questions on a date? (scripts included!)
I’m so excited about this episode and this podcast, and I know you will be, too!
Listen to this all-science-based dating episode here:
And please lmk how you liked the show! What stands out for you? Your life is your own experiment. What will you try that’s different?
Cheers,
Duana
Want more love in your life? Whether you’re single, partnered, or questioning anything
about relationships, get coaching with Dr. Duana Welch, the original Love Scientist:

 

Thursday
Jan042024

If You Resolved That 2023 Was Your Last Single New Year's Eve

Have you vowed that this past New Year’s was the last one you’ll spend single?

 
If you’ve resolved to find the one for you in 2024, let’s get it done with my science-based dating coaching; drop me a line!


duana@lovesciencemedia.com

www.lovesciencemedia.com/consult

Talk with you soon~

Duana

Duana C. Welch, Ph.D.

Love Factually coach and author

 

Schedule a 15-minute mini-session for dating and relationship coaching now: Visit www.lovesciencemedia.com/consult

 

 

 

Advance praise, Love Factually books: 

—“A must-read: gripping, science-based, and brimming with actions to improve your love life.”

~David Buss, Ph.D., author of The Evolution of Desire

—“A must read for all those of us seeking a lasting love.” 

~Dr. John Gottman, author of The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work

—“This book will heal your heart and help you love again—this time, for life.” 

~Susan Page, author of If I’m So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?

 

Thursday
Jul202023

Meet The Love Scientist In New York This October 23

Do you love Dr. Duana Welch’s Love Factually books? Have you listened to her on podcasts and wondered where you can meet her and ask all your dating-and-relating questions in a (very rare) in-person appearance? 

If so, you don’t want to miss the “All The Single Ladies” Singles Summit in New York City this October 23! 

For the first time in over five years, the original science-based dating coach and author is appearing in-person for a live Q&A, plus four break-out sessions! 

You’ll get lots of time to learn all things Love Factually—vastly enhancing your dating-and-relating! 

You’ll also meet: 

*matchmaker Bonnie Winston 

*online dating expert Michelle Jacoby 

*sex therapist Sari Cooper

*stylists Amanda Sanders and Barbara Warren 

~All brought to you by Wise & Wonderful Women’s founder, our host and moderator Ann Cutbill Lenane! 


Start-to-finish dating guidance is here! Save the date!

Want more love in your life? Whether you’re single, partnered, or questioning anything about relationships, get coaching with Dr. Duana Welch:
http://www.lovesciencemedia.com/consult/ 

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Monday
Mar272023

Is Your Attachment Style Ruining Your Dating Or Relating?

Wise Readers: Your attachment style could be sabotaging your relationships!
“Love Factually Author and dating coach Dr. Duana Welch is a professor turned researcher who uses science to help people find & keep the love of their life.
In episode 180, you’ll hear how to tell which attachment style you are and:
👉 The connection between your humor & attachment
👉 Secure vs co-dependent
👉 Mini marriages
👉What happens when the same attachment styles get together
👉How to upgrade your attachment style”
I’d love to be your science-based guide to a lifetime of happiness. Right now you can get (or give) a 15-minute mini-session with me—at no charge. Free. Gratis.
Let’s make love happen for you in 2023: reach out to me at Duana@lovesciencemedia.com.
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Want more love in your life? Whether you’re single, partnered, or questioning anything about relationships, get coaching with Dr. Duana Welch: