Love Advice from Patti Stanger

In anticipation of Season Two of The Millionaire Matchmaker, Bravo has posted the first two chapters of Patti’s book, Become Your Own Matchmaker: 8 Easy Steps for Attracting Your Perfect Mateyself and a huge fan of Patti, I downloaded the chapters to see what they could do for me.

Two weeks later, I still don’t have a husband or even a text messaging buddy.  The first chapter of the book, on “Dating Detox” is actually really helpful and worth a more serious read even though Patti starts going off into some hippie dippie Secret/visualization stuff that’s a bit surprising from the no-nonsense East Coast style I am used to from her. But hey, live in California long enough and it changes you. The point is that you should stop dating for a while in order to rid yourself of the baggage of past relationships, get to know what you really want (which is you know, a millionnaire) and become a better person in order to stop attracting losers.

Chapter Two is about changing your appearance to attract men. Or uh, enhancing your apperance by getting rid of your gross curly hair and wearing girdles ( Personally, I’m a fan of truth in advertising. When the moment of truth comes, you can’t hide anything so why lie? You know what you’re getting with me.). All of that is fine, but the truth is, for every “imperfection” Patty wants you to hide, there is a dude out there that thinks it’s the hottest thing ever. It doesn’t stop me from being sooo excited that Patti is coming back in just a few weeks. I may have to find a husband without her help, but I’ll still watch the straight haired, legging loving Yenta every week.

Download the chapters on BravoTV (beware, it’s a PDF!). And if you end up reading them, tell me what you think of Patti’s advice! Helpful or same old same old?

[Image: Bravo/Peter Tangen]