Are you into astrology and zodiac signs?
If yes, then you surely know that learning about signs in the zodiac chart helps getting clues about one’s behavior and personality.
Not yet, it also tells about what an individual likes and dislikes and about the type of people they are attracted to.
You must keep this mind when dating a Cancer man!
Born under the sign belonging to the Water element, he is a pretty sensitive guy.
For those who don’t know how to love this male or find him unpredictable, then read this article will give you clarity into what Cancer man likes and dislikes in a woman.
Let’s find out if you are really the type that he prefers the most.
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Top 7 Traits of a Woman that a Cancer Man Likes
1. Be independent financially
If you want to be a Cancer man perfect woman, the first thing to remember is not depending on him financially.
When you two hang out together, it’s better to split the bill instead of letting him pay everything alone even though he is capable to. This way will stop him from the suspicion that you love him just because of his money.
2. Be sincere
Show him your sincerity in order to make him fall in love.
As a sensitive soul, this is the man full of sympathy and often ruled by his emotions. Above all, he values loyalty and sincerity. Therefore, he expects his future partner will display her sincere love to him, regardless of his situations.
3. Treat him with a good manner
Mentioned earlier, he is the most sensitive person compared to any other man.
If he has special feelings for you, this means he also appreciates your inner beauty and outer appearance. He will love you more if you enable to show him a good manner.
Otherwise, he doesn’t even pay attention to someone having a bad behavior.
4. Freely express opinions
Cancer man is easily drawn to women who are straightforward and don’t hold their opinion back.
Rather than showing your fragile side always, you must prove to him that you are also a lady with a very high self-esteem. As he may be testing you, he will get impressed if you can be up-front with your views and ideas. Don’t be afraid to reveal what’s in your mind with him as long as it is reasonable.
As time passes, he will feel bored being with someone that holds back and keeps everything alone.
5. Feel strongly connected with his emotions
How to make a Cancer to fall in love with you?
Based on his personality traits, his ideal lover must display a great sense of empathy. Always take his feelings into consideration and show your 100% support. When your man is happy, simply laugh and celebrate together. Whenever he seems depressed, approach him and shower him with your care.
6. Trust him completely
He will appreciate a lot if you can entrust him with your secret. When it comes to respecting your privacy, Cancer man ranks first on the list. Don’t mind telling him about your lack of security and things could bring you down.
This guy in love will try his best to make your love life with him full of happiness.
7. Be innocent
Cancer man has a huge interest for innocent, gentle, and childlike women.
He can immediately have a crush on someone who has a sense of innocence of themselves. That somehow wakes a Cancerian’s protection instinct up. Rather than expressing his emotions out, he chooses to invest in a person that can handle his protection.
Other traits of a woman captivated his heart
- A traditional woman who deeply treasures the value of family
- Being in a diplomatic relation with his mother is an advantage
- When it comes to finances, he is known as a miser; thus, a woman who can help him handle his finances well is worth his investment
- He loves to be taken care of; so, the quickest way to his heart is to cook for him tasty delicacy
- He appreciates the lady who is good at maintaining a pleasant, clean, and peaceful ambiance at home
Top 7 Traits of a Woman that a Cancer Man Dislikes
1. Be flirty
How to make a Cancer man want you?
Then you need to stop acting flirting when being with him. This guy is, in a relationship, always looking for emotional security and trust on the highest level. He hates spending time with someone that keeps making him put his possessive and jealous side on view.
If you really fall for him, the first thing to do is embracing him with safety.
2. Put on too much makeup
Taking care of the appearance is one of things Cancer man likes in a woman.
Nevertheless, he can’t stand if she wears thick layers of makeup. For him, a flashy makeup is a sign of being overly confident ? this is a trait contrast to a Cancer’s nature.
Furthermore, a woman with a thick makeup is like she’s wearing a mask making this guy feel she is not worth being trusted. When being with a male Cancerian, it’s better to do a natural makeup.
3. Be emotional detached
This man in love can be ridiculously clingy.
So, if you are an Aquarius or Gemini woman, you are definitely not his type.
He is the person of deep emotional needs and fertile imagination. Because of that, he really wants to feel the love and care from his partner clearly. When you two have conflicts, he hopes that you can understand his moods and anxieties.
He is the kind of man that will retreat to his shell and come back once feeling safe when being misunderstood.
4. Be indifferent
Your love interest is truly emotional; hence, he will get frustrated if staying with a woman who shows no sensitivity towards his feelings and sentiments. Keep in mind that he yearns to be loved and pampered.
He seems not to get along well with ladies who aren’t in touch with their feelings and who aren’t willing to show their vulnerable side.
Respecting his emotions is a good way to get close to him.
5. Get rage easily
Not only Cancer men, but all men admit that a woman is not sexy when she is angry. Maybe all the romance novels and thrillers that you’ve read before have your belief; however, trust me ? anger is never an attractive point of a lady.
You must know that your Cancer man is very sensitive ? he will instantly retreat into his shell once you show your anger or criticism towards his feelings. If you are too difficult to him, he finds it hard to open up to you.
All he needs are security and safety.
6. Have a big egoism
If the Cancer male is around a lady who keeps thinking that she is way better than him, he will surely not make the next move. It’s a big no to be with someone possessing a big egoism ? this trait, for him, is not attractive.
He has no interest with a person who acts arrogantly to almost everything.
Cancer man may be a caretaker for his loved one, but taking care of someone making him feel like he’s unable to please her is really not worth his investment. He doesn’t want to stay with a selfish partner.
7. Be intense and hard to handle
As I already said, Cancer man looks for a woman having a touch of innocence and feminine. He is quite reserved; thus, a girl who seems to have gone through all ups and downs in life may not arouse his protection instinct.
Moreover, he is not a deep person; this leads to the incomprehensibility of his own when his partner shares her point of view passionately.
This sensitive soul is unable to handle the thoughts of an old soul, and soon he will be done with you.
Quick Signs a Cancer Man Falls for You
After learning about what a Cancer man likes and dislikes in a woman as well as his personality traits in love, it’s time to figure out signs telling you successfully captured his heart.
In the following, I’ve just prepared a checklist of signs when a male Cancerian finally falls in love with you:
- He will introduce you to his family best friends
- Due to his shyness, he will not tell you his feelings yet will show you his affections through actions
- Cancer man loves when he can spend time with you
- He does all sorts of romantic things, like inviting you to dinner, going on a vacation together, or preparing a simple date for you
- Although he is not really witty or has no sense of humor, this guy will make any possible joke to make you laugh
- He willingly shows you his inner feelings and deepest secrets
- He will no longer act flirty to other women once being in a relationship with you
- He becomes too protective, possessive, and a little bit jealous
- Never talk to other guys in front of him or he feels unpleasant
- Whenever you need his help or support, he will support
Overall, these are noticeable signs of a Cancer man interested in you.
As you probably know, the man discussed here is very passionate and loyal. Because of that, you should not think of taking him for granted or you will never have the heart of a male Cancerian?ever.
Making him to notice you may be difficult at first as he is a bit of the introvert type. Nonetheless, love is always worth to try.
In general, you can be an independent woman in any where. But when being around this sensitive guy, I advise you to show your weak side. He becomes a caretaker and a protector in a romantic relationship, so a damsel in distress will give him the feeling of being needed.
Innocence and sweetness of a lady are two vibes that can draw him easily. Additionally, it will be a bonus if you display your vulnerable side to him.
I don’t think all this is true. Although every article on Cancer men likes and dislikes say the same thing…I somehow have never seen any of this happen in my case.
He acts like every other jerk I have ever come across!!
Is there an explanation to this? If yes, then please explain!!
He could be a Cancer with very little water in his birth chart.
Or probably his bad upbringing outshines his Cancer traits.
Dear Sheila,
This is just the common traits of Cancer men in general; in reality, if you want to get to know more in-depth things about your Cancer partner, then a lot of elements should be taken into consideration like his moon sign, ascendant, cusp, etc.
Not all Cancerians are the same as it depends on many factors.
Hope you understand, thank you!
I agree with you on this… most cancer men I have heard of or seen around me act like complete jerks. They only flirt and butter up women at work places and none of the male superiors. They only consider their own feelings and are barely concerned about how their behavior made you feel.
Also I think its a bit irritating to see every other article ask the girl to do most of the work while they sit back and enjoy the care and pampering. Truth is almost all women love to be taken care of and pampered. So when you give so much in a relationship you must get some of the love back and if that’s not happening best thing to do is leave, no matter the Zodiac sign you are dating.
Dear Upasana,
Thanks for your opinions and I completely understand your point here.
But I have to say again that not all Cancerians are the same as it depends on many factors. There are some good Cancers and of course bad Cancers too.
Sincere!
You are right, what everyone needs to take into consideration is the upbringing of the person, I am a Gemini. And I am similar to the charts. But I had an extremely violent childhood that greatly influenced my charts. So I have to realize that the changes are more influential then my birth sign.
Ur so right.. I’m in it I don’t even know wat to do
How long have you known or dated him? It takes them quite a while to get comfy…but when they do you have the best guy everrrrr. He’ll just want you to be around him all the time but that’s nice in a way…
Dear Wen Wen,
Thanks for your opinions!
I’m a cancerian and I’m in love with this cancerian guy…. We’ve had some misunderstanding due to which he moved out of the relationship and asked me to move on…. He was in a very sensitive and emotional state at that time because he had lost someone very close to him. I was unaware of the fact but after knowing that I tried being a support but he refused saying he was not my responsibility anymore. Yet he showed his care towards me. I want to get him back and clear all the misunderstandings…. How do I do it…. Can I get some help!!!
Hi dear,
You can’t get him to come back. If the relationship is worth fighting for in his eyes, he’ll come back on his own.
Good luck!
I find most of this very true. I am married to a cancer man for 12 years now. When it says they like to be pampered I would say this is probably true but my husband didn’t get that lucky with me. He is just now getting the wife that helps him cook and I don’t keep the house as clean and he would wish I think due to my upbringing on a farm. But he loves me and accepts me even though those things aren’t maybe what he would have liked. But when it says he would show his love through actions, this is SO true. He is super romantic and when dating would always send gifts, flowers, do surprises, write poetry.. really won me over with his love and affection for sure.
We also broke up when we were teenagers due to being so young, 15 and 16 years old. (Lived too far away and he felt it wasn’t good for us being so young. He lived in MN and I lived in IN.) We stayed great friends and when I visited him when I was 18, he confessed he was still in love with me. So he made plans and moved to Ohio to be with me again to see if we could work as adults. Obviously we did… so I find it so crazy how much this is true.
I am a Scorpio if that helps anyone else. We work amazingly well together.
Thanks for sharing your story, Denille
It helps a lot!
Sincere!
So reassuring to know you are a scorpio. I have been in love with a work colleague for three and a half years he is cancer and I’m a scorpio. He is such a decent guy. He does show a little interest but due to me just coming out of a relationship I feel he is taking his time to approach me properly. I am so looking forward to see where this goes in the long run. Wishing you a happy life.
Oh yes the crab is something alright. I am in a relationship with a cancer men and let me just tell you that i waited 3 months for him to say that he likes me and has feelings for me and from then the relationship started to be so romantic and amazing. It takes time for them to open up.