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Managing Love Intelligently with Steven Ing, MFT

Managing love intelligently involves understanding your emotional, spiritual, and sexual needs, your boundaries, your deal-breakers, your fantasies, and everything else that allows you to optimize your success in letting the right one into your heart, life, and home.

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Episode 68: Having Some Flexibility with Your Deal Breakers

June 17, 2025 • Steven Ing, MFT • Episode 68

Some deal breakers are universal, like abuse, while others are personal, like wanting to date someone who hikes. By having some flexibility with your "personal" deal breakers, you open yourself up to dating people who may surprise you.

For 35 years, Steven Ing, MFT, has been a Marriage and Family Therapist with a specialty in forensic work. He is a contributing writer to Psychology Today and the author of two books on sexuality: We're All Like This and Get Busy Living. He is the creator and host of the true crime podcast Sex Crime Central. In 2022, he was the victim of an attempted murder and survived multiple stabbings. And good thing: in 2023 his feminist science fiction novel Polliwog was published and he was appointed a community faculty member for the UNR School of Medicine. He lives in Reno, Nevada, with his wife, Sharon, on the edge of the Toiyabe National Forest.

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