Dating for Fun and Profit: A Girl’s Guide to Useful Men By Cynthia James

The most Useful dating book you’ll ever own! Use it to finally start getting back as much as you give. Why settle for Barely Useful Males (BUMs) when you can have the Highly Useful ones instead?

What people are saying about DFFP:

“Dating For Fun and Profit is a textbook for survival – a must read book for women playing the dating game. Filled with sly humor that may cause permanent laugh lines, Cynthia James’ book is also a treasure for solving relationship problems before and after marriage.” – Phyllis Taylor Pianka aka Winter Ames, multi- published author and teacher

“I loved your book and was very disappointed when I came to the end – it is subversive and needs to be in the hands of as many women as possible.” — Susan Parker, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University

“DFFP is a great read – clever, often humorous, thought-provoking and upbeat…there’s empowerment here for all women, even if they don’t wish to use the UM approach.” – Jan Stiles, Editor

“A perfect mix of straight talk and sparkling wit. If you have a Useful Male or want one (or many) you need to read this wise and funny book.” – Deb Atwood, author Moonlight Dancer

Instead of asking the “what’s wrong with me” question, what if we had a tool for getting more of what we want in our lives – where men are simply a subset of that? When our goal is happiness, Useful Males (UMs) can certainly play a part, but we’ll enjoy our lives much more when they aren’t center stage.

The Status Quo
Most women own cars, appliances, computers, and even tools. We also have careers and charitable aspirations. And yet when we get into relationships, men become just one more thing for us to nurture and maintain. But it doesn’t have to be this way! DFFP offers lots of tools, tips and strategies for tipping the scales back into the balance that Nature intended.

Beginning with a worksheet to determine each woman’s specific needs, DFFP teaches her to find UMs, manage them, and even exchange them with other women to get exactly what she wants. DFFP provides a winning strategy for the majority of years women spend without A Perfect Man. And DFFP is not just about new relationships. It can help all women get more of what they want by improving the Usefulness Quotients of men they already have.

DFFP is now available! The author can be reached by emailing cynthia@cynthiajames.com

In America, women are single for about half of our lives. Countless studies show that single women are happier than married women, and yet many of us spend our solo years seeking Mr. Right. And as we pursue him, it’s not hard to find myriad helpful suggestions on how to perfect ourselves. We can find books on everything from being great in bed to making men laugh. But these thinly veiled courtesan-training manuals don’t really do much besides providing more images to criticize ourselves against. Are we wasting our time? Probably. Especially when:
• Getting just any old guy isn’t very hard.
• Very few women die believing they married the one perfect man for them.
• When we invest energy in men who don’t work out, we end up farther behind than we started.