The Powerful Negotiating Strategy I Learned from Bridgerton
Once you get past the steamy sex scenes, the dazzling dresses and as a Realtor I must say, oh the regal real estate, Bridgerton taught me a powerful negotiating strategy:
Once it stops being about you, it’s easier to see how to get what you want.
Daphne has fallen in love with the Duke, wants to marry him and start a family, the de rigueur thing to do in Regency England. The Duke, entombed by his anger at his father and emotionally crippled by his cruelty, has vowed in revenge to end the family line. (Who gets the real estate? But I digress.)
Two opposing outcomes.
Fortunately, true love encourages them to revise their negotiation strategies so they can live happily-ever-after.
His strategy: The Duke has glorious sex with Daphne but pulls out so she can’t get pregnant. She asks him if it hurts! His negotiation strategy here is a deliberate error of omission.
Dishonesty is never a good negotiating strategy. The truth somehow always has a way of coming out.
Exactly! His negotiating strategy doesn’t work because the Duchess figures out how procreation works.
Her strategy: She takes advantage of Simon and forces him to ejaculate inside her. In the book, this mating…
