Win back your girl!

1. BELT IT OUT
It doesn’t matter if you sound like Frank Sinatra or Frankie the Frog: Singing to your woman
is guaranteed to turn her stone heart into soft, gooey mush. Music psychology tells us that musical experience affects the brain’s behavior and has proven in Music Therapy to improve emotional and physical health. So if music can help stroke victims, it may very well heal a broken heart.

2. MAKE HER LAUGH
A female brain actually produces less serotonin—the brain chemical that influences good mood.
According to a study by the science guys at the McGill University, your brain actually produces 52 percent more of this happy brain juice. So make use of what Mother Nature gave you and make her laugh to get all the good, happy memories rolling back—and her back in your arms.

3. APOLOGIZE
Female experts, a.k.a. husbands, memorize this rule by heart: You may be right, she may be wrong; but she will always be right. But “you’re right” aren’t the magic words she’s for ...it’s
what comes after: “Sorry.” Women shoot 300 wpm, not to be “right,” but to make you understand that you did something to piss her off . Show her that you’ve accepted that fact. “If I still love him, it’s easy for me to forgive, especially if he sets aside his pride”, says Jennifer Loma, 24, entrepreneur. “Ideally, I’d like him to surprise me in front of my doorstep and apologize.

4. GO BACK TO BEING “THE MAN”
Put on a show if you must; just don’t overdo it or she’ll smell your desperation. Return to being the man she fell in love with (or better) and get your social and personal life on active mode. When she sees that you’re happy even when she’s gone, she’ll start wondering if she made the right decision letting you get away.

5. TALK
“Connecting through talking activates the pleasure centers in a girl’s brain. It’s a major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm,” says neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of The Female Brain. We know it’s not your forte, but talking will help smoothen things out and clear the battle grounds for a new start.

6. REMEMBER THE LITTLE THINGS
Thank her bigger hippocampus— the part of the brain that turns short- to long-term memories—for having an index of all the good (and the bad) things that ever happened in your relationship. “It’s the elephant that never forgets a fight, a romantic encounter or a tender moment,” as Brizendine puts it. Now, you can’t grow your hippocampus, but you can work the amygdala (the memory processor of the brain) to your advantage. While men tend to connect memories with external events (vision, motor action), women typically connect memories to emotions. So, try to remember the little things to impress her and her brain, and allow all the good emotions to come surging back.

7. GET HER A GIFT THAT MATTERS
Dr. Margaret Rucker, a consumer psychologist at the University of California, says men are typically more price-conscious and practical when it comes to giving and receiving gifts, while women are hardwired to see the emotional significance. You might think that drowning her with presents tells her how much she means to you (if this is the case, then you’ve got yourself a gold digger). But to her, they’re just a pile of junk—sorry, tough love. So if you’re planning to get her a gift, make it mean something.

8.AVOID FLINGS
Hooking up with someone else “in the meantime” signals you’re not really serious about getting back together. Believe us when we say that if she fi nds out you’ve been with another woman, your chances of winning her back will plummet down. Patience is key, young Padawan.