Patti Stanger Broke All The Rules With Her Engagement To Boyfriend Andy

The Frisky posted a great interview yesterday with matchmaker and Bravo-lebrity Patti Stanger, star of the Millionaire Matchmaker. While the little feminist bra-burner inside of me sometimes hates her more old-fashioned advice, a lot of what Patti says does make sense, especially if you’ve been single for a while and are confused by the inner working of the male mind (here’s a hint: it’s not that complicated).

I love her story on how she finally got engaged to her boyfriend of 5 years. Turns out, he was feeling the heat from Patti getting calls from ex-boyfriends thanks to her new found fame:

I broke every rule in the book. California men are spoiled and I let him get away with murder. He wasn’t indecisive, he wanted to marry me but he didn’t necessarily want to get married cause he was in his 50s and he’d never been married and he was a California boy. They have kids out of wedlock here. I’m from New Jersey and New York; we don’t do that sort of thing. I think what happened was, once I got famous and I started getting ex-boyfriends calling me and hitting me up on Facebook, he started getting a little nervous and then his sister said, “If you don’t carpe diem this next year, she’s out of your line, she’ll probably start dating on the show.” My profile is still up on JDate because JDate has the right to keep your profiles up and I guess it was a goof. So I was like, “Hmm … if you don’t ask me to get married to you, I got my profile still up on JDate!” So, you know, I played him like that.

What’s interesting about Patti is her advice very often conflicts. On the show, she tells women to straighten their hair, lose extra weight and dress sexier to make themselves more attractive to men. In this interview, however, she says one of her dealbreakers is men who want to “fix her:”

“And the fixer, my least favorite person. You wanna fix me? I’m not your girl. You wanna accept my flaws like I accept yours? We can have a relationship. But if you think I’m going to have to lose 10 pounds before you marry me, get a better job, change my hair color, or get bigger boobs, hit the dirt. That’s a dealbreaker.”

And, while she says you shouldn’t have sex without monogamy, one of her biggest tips to women is to “give a good blowjob” because then, you get “the jewelry and everything.” What does “and everything” encompass? What if you don’t like jewelry and just want a Macbook Air? What do I have to do then?

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