Alright @SaintSovereign, I never actually answered your earlier question about what a successful Heartsong run would look like to me, so here goes:
Six months in, I’d want my romantic life to be materially different in the real world. Let’s assume we’re talking more than just “I’m in my ideal long-term relationship after running HS for six months”—that’s what I’d truly want as the end goal. But what about the process that has happened before that, or if that hasn’t happened yet?
I’m meeting significantly more women who are genuinely compatible with me. Dating apps are producing better matches and more dates. Women are discovering me naturally online/socially. Friends are introducing me to people they think I’d click with. I’m getting invited into environments where compatible women are present. I’m more driven to actually go out, explore, accept invitations, initiate, and create pathways instead of simply hoping somebody appears.
There should be a sense of romantic abundance: not indiscriminate volume, but enough genuinely compatible possibilities that I’m not putting enormous pressure on one person or one ambiguous connection.
I’d also want much stronger relationship-form discernment. I can tell the difference between someone who is simply attractive, someone I have great sexual chemistry with, someone who could make a wonderful friend or FWB, someone worth dating for a period, and someone with serious long-term partnership potential.
I don’t think every successful connection needs to be pushed toward one predetermined “soulmate” endpoint. Ideally Heartsong helps each reciprocal connection develop into the form that actually works best for both people. If I consciously want a long-term partner, then absolutely help me find and build that relationship—but other meaningful connections along the way shouldn’t automatically be treated as failures.
I’m better at recognizing mutual interest, flirting, initiating, asking women out, escalating when clearly reciprocated, communicating attraction, discussing sex and boundaries, and talking honestly about what kind of relationship we both want.
And once I’m actually in a relationship, Heartsong helps with the unsexy-but-critical stuff too: secure attachment, trust, communication, conflict repair, maintaining attraction, affection, sex, independence, shared experiences, and building a life that makes both people better rather than smaller.
So I think my simplest definition would be:
A successful Heartsong run gives me more compatible romantic opportunities, makes me much better at recognizing and acting on them, helps me develop each reciprocal connection into its best mutually desired form, and ultimately makes my romantic life abundant, secure, intimate, exciting, and actually moving somewhere.
That’s what I’d personally want to be able to look back on after six months and say: “Okay, Heartsong clearly worked.”