Avoid unnecessary heartbreak and wasting time in dead-end relationships. Here are seven indicators that a "crash and burn" may be in your future!

1. Partner Still Involved With The Ex.
Can we say "rebound?" It's common to meet singles who are having a difficult time letting go of the past. You'll notice disturbing behavior: the Ex's name comes up frequently in conversations; there may be regular phone calls, secretive visits, frequent arguments and a lot of unresolved pain between them.

While there is really no magic formula to guarantee a "happily ever after" ending to your love story, we can take charge of our lives and enter into committed relationships with a clearer idea of what is right and wrong for us. Here are my tips.

The Commitment Question. You should not even THINK about a permanent relationship until the two of you have known each other for at least 9-12 months.

I remember reading somewhere a quote on manhood that reads "Make it a life rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark."

That quote pretty much sums things up. To women, simply being male does not entitle you to become a card carrying member of the Manhood Club.

I can't tell you how many times dismayed lovers have said to me: "I just couldn't help it! I fell in love and I just stayed too long. I knew s/he wasn't the one... we had so many problems! But I just couldn't help it!"

The frequency of that statement leads me to believe that when it comes to love, too many of us listen with our hearts rather than our heads.

Here are three ways to know if YOU are confusing a sex-based association of convenience with a loving committed relationship.

#1 Women Put Too Much Stock on Words

One of the primary tools the player has in his arsenal is a smooth tongue. Words of love flow from his lips, often within hours or days of meeting. A woman desperate for someone to call her own will latch onto those words like a life raft.

Women female gender seems to have an innate desire to improve, nurture, and organize things. Nothing wrong with that, except when it is turned towards a romantic relationship.

People are who and what they are. They don't change because we see potential in them. They don't change because we want them to be more, better, different. Snakes bite, wolves howl, and scorpions sting.

Woman complain frequently about male/female communication. "Men don't communicate" these ladies say in frustration. Women complain that men give one-word answers, don't elaborate and tell the entire story in a play by play fashion, and that it feelings like "pulling teeth" to get information out of them.

Being Like A Man Is Not Always A Bad Thing!

Women operate on a different dynamic and love to share their feelings, experiences and thoughts with others.

Whether you are fresh out of a long-term relationship and anxious to get back into the game OR scared out of your mind at the mere thought of dating and hiding out at home, I have terrific information for you!

#1 What Does It Mean To "Date"? Dating simply means time you set apart from your insanely busy schedule to spend time with another person, with the goal of getting to know him or her better.

By choosing to love someone else, we open ourselves up to possibilities. Possibilities to experience total bliss, passion, and deep soul satisfaction, as well as the possibility to experience total emotional devastation! But most of us view the possible benefits as being worth the risk, and so we involve ourselves with others to get love.

And therein lies the problem.

After six months (or even years), the man of your dreams, the sweetest guy in the world suddenly needs space.

You've noticed a change lately...he's been unhappy, uncommunicative, argumentative. Sex has dropped off to the point and he is either not interested or "too tired" most of the time. You begin to wonder if he is seeing someone else.