What if the man you’re supposed to marry is the one who’d sit by your hospital bed and say, “Nobody’s ever loved me as much as you do”?

My friend Katie, from the 106.5 The End morning show in Sacramento, went into the hospital thinking it was something minor. By 4 PM, she was in emergency surgery. So I put on my pajamas, drove over in my Bronco, and crawled into bed with her, and we recorded this episode right there.

In this episode:

• What emergency surgery revealed about Katie and her fiancé, Damian
• Why your 18-year marriage wasn’t a failure
• There’s no advantage to staying with the wrong person
• The garage-door test for knowing if he’s your person
• “You’re not too much. They’re not enough.”
• Why you should use dating apps to make friends, not hunt for a husband
• The play: put your red flags on your dating profile
• A cheese-fueled RV disaster neither of us is over

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Free live training, The Game Plan: gameplan.amandacarroll.org
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So many women are single today because they stayed with the wrong one too long, or they're with the wrong one right now because no one ever told them when they're allowed to leave. In this episode, Amanda Carroll teaches the CEO Firing Framework: slow to hire, fast to fire, never rehire. You'll learn the 30-day provisional hire, the three questions for your Day-30 review, the firing offenses that end it on the spot, how to run an exit interview, and why the scarcity-of-good-men myth keeps smart women rehiring the wrong man.

In this episode:

• Why smart women stay too long (and why it's not your fault)
• The 30-day provisional hire, and why exclusivity comes first
• The Day-30 review: commitment, healthy partner, calmer or anxious
• The firing offenses list, plus the difference between coachable and fireable
• The exit interview script
• Why there is no shortage of good men

Links:

• Free Commitment Decoder, what his first five dates tell you about month nine: decoder.amandacarroll.org
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or thehotline.org

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What if the thing you finally figured out about him at Month Six was already there on Date Three?

One of the biggest reasons women waste time on the wrong men isn’t because they can’t see what’s happening. It’s because the packaging looks so good that they override the evidence.

He has a great career, so you assume he’s responsible. He says he values communication, so you assume he knows how to communicate. He wants marriage, so you assume he’s ready for one. You have incredible chemistry, so you assume you’re compatible.

But where’s the evidence?

In this episode of The Playbook, I’m teaching you The Look Beyond the Packaging Play—how to stop dating the story you’re building around a man and start paying attention to what his behavior is actually telling you.

We’re talking about why you should stop dating adjectives and start dating verbs, the one question I want at the top of your dating list, why caring without action eventually becomes labor, how to spot patterns without turning every imperfection into a red flag, and why some of the best potential partners may not have the most impressive “packaging” on a dating app.

I’ll also tell you the tiny thing my husband did for our engagement anniversary that perfectly demonstrates what I mean when I say: Does he turn caring into action?

Because the goal isn’t to rush love. The goal is to stop wasting time where love isn’t going.

If you’re tired of spending months trying to figure out whether a man is right for you, come spend three days with me inside Dating Reset Training Camp, September 15–17.

We’re going to practice how to evaluate the men you’re dating, recognize the evidence that actually matters, know what deserves another date, and build your own dating strategy so you can stop wasting time on the wrong men and get better at recognizing the right one.

3 days LIVE with me. $47.

Join Dating Reset Training Camp: https://trainingcamp.amandacarroll.org/

Because meeting the right man is only half the job. You also have to recognize him.