“If there’s anything I’ve discovered during my journey here on God’s earth, it’s this,' Harvey writes. It is a last act of desperation, like the cold medicine you buy when you’ve been sick for days and simple hydration and rest are not working, so in a zombie-like haze, you go to the pharmacy and pick up the first thing you see with a sales pitch like “Maximum cold & flu blaster! Sleep for 48 hours GUARANTEED!” I worry about those 15 people, because, after reading it, I can conclude Act Like A Lady is not a book you come to when you’re in a good place.

In the year 2020, I thought his book would be collecting dust at my local library, but, at the time of this writing, it was checked out and had 15 holds. This is all to say that he is about as qualified as I, Miss One Date, am to be doling out dating and relationship advice. He brings an incredible deadpan performance to every episode of Family Feud, and his mishandling of the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant winner announcement, while possibly traumatizing for the contestants involved, was iconic. I like Steve Harvey two of my favorite things are game shows and live TV mishaps. “Erase the myths, the heresy, everything your mother told you, everything your girlfriends told you, all the advice you’ve read in magazines and seen on television-and find out here, who men really are.”

“I want every woman who truly wants a solid relationship but just can’t figure out how to get one… to forget everything she’s ever been taught about men,” Harvey begins. The only advice I followed was the kind that is offensively unhelpful until it actually works: Just be yourself! This philosophy is the antithesis of Steve Harvey’s 2009 bestseller Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, a book that suggests yourself is your greatest obstacle to finding a connection. I avoided dating apps and proceeded to live my life making no particular effort to meet men, eventually befriending one and going on a date that turned into my current loving, supportive relationship of three and a half years.

I was a late bloomer partially out of resistance.

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