Is everyone getting engaged this week? Hey, no complaints here! Yesterday, Patti Stanger from Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker announced she’s engaged to long-time boyfriend Andy Friedman. In our upcoming celebrity lifestyle issue of Engagement 101 Magazine, we talked with the matchmaker about love, engagements and her new book Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mate.
“Do not move in with him!” Patti advises engaged women. She insists that couples should still work on their relationship even after the ring is on.
And speaking of the engagement ring, what kind of ring did her fiance give her? “Four carat heart F stone,” she said. “And non conflict.” The ring was also designed by her fiance.
Read more about Patti and her new book in the next issue of Engagement 101!
I 100% agree with Patti about not moving in. I know that younger bloggers tell me that all the married couples they know lived together first, but all of the women that I know that are still waiting to say “I Do” are all living with their boyfriends (and in some cases long term fiances).
Lol! I guess I’m one of those young bloggers. I don’t know; I guess it kind of depends on the relationship, too.
I completely disagree with Patti on so many levels and I have to say that even though I enjoy watching this hilarious show- she is poisoning the minds of so many of my friends. They are eating up her advice and playing by her rules. She teaches women to play mind games with men. If a man truly loves you he will not care if you move in with him before you are engaged. It might be a better idea to wait just so you can sort out your own life and move in with him when you are ready but, if he truly loves you it will not change his feelings for you. He will not care if you sleep with him on the 2nd date, he will not care if you are over 35 or god forbid wear an A-cup bra. As for women- if a woman truly loves a man she is not going to care if he doesn’t make 100K and she is not going to care if he is not super tall. I remember the episode where she has a short guy on the show (not really short, but 5 foot 8 or so) and she interviews 10 women all of whom will not date him because of his height. There are so many men under 5 foot 10 and so many of them have cute girlfriends with great personalities who love them. Patti works with the lowest of the low- rich men who cannot find a wife either because their social skills are so poor or they are just nasty people. The real issue is, there are not enough good men to go around. Patti is advising women on how to make things work with crappy men who would otherwise judge them. I work in the wedding industry and I can tell you about the hundreds of women I speak to each year who are marrying someone younger than them… how they are marrying someone that isn’t wealthy…. how they moved in with their boyfriend and still got that ring from him. Girls, don’t settle for anything less than someone who loves you to pieces. Someone you can talk about to anything and someone who loves you and your heart and accepts your shortcomings. Refer back to Tolstoy’s quote on happy families and how all happy families are alike and follow the same patterns. The same is true of good relationships. Look at your friends who have the best relationships…. I bet they all follow a similar pattern and few of them have followed Patti’s rules.