Bossy! Magazine Issue 20 September/October 2017 | Page 29

How many of us don't use what we gained in practice to have a successful relationship? The #1 phrase of the CSA is don't waste your mistakes. Practice comes in the form of past relationships, living together, lengthy engagements, other relationships, etc. In my humble veteran's opinion, the biggest practice time and the most challenging field is the time in which we are single. Being single is the most important practice time a woman can have; it prepares you the Big game. One of the forgotten lessons you can take from being single, besides the normal take this time to get to know you, which is a given -- take this time to miss men, miss love. When football players are in "off season", they crave it. They crave the contact, the thrill of victory, their teammates. When the season starts, they are raring to go simply because they were without the thing they love.

Rarely, ladies, do we commit and not already know who they were. Did you know he was underemployed before you got married? Ask yourself, did you know about his temper before you moved in together?