Blake Lively and Leonadro DiCaprio cycling in NYC on August 2.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively were first seen spending time together in France and Italy in May, during and just after the Cannes Film Festival. The pair enjoyed intimate dinners and romantic yacht trips, however their efforts to never leave a place together and to avoid having their photo taken together indicated that this was not a romance they were in any hurry to have made public.

Snapped photos of the attractive pair may not have stirred so much curiosity except for the fact that DiCaprio had announced his split from long-time girlfriend, model Bar Refaeli, just weeks before. It was also widely known that Lively had split with her Gossip Girl co-star, Penn Badgley, last year.

And it seems that Lively was not content to stay single. It is rumoured that Lively set her sights on Dicaprio and pulled out all stops to move the relationship forward, including turning to international best-selling dating manual The Rules.

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So what are The Rules? It seems that a large portion of it is about maintaining distance and a sense of mystery. Women are encouraged to seem 'busy' and to not call the man, but to wait for him to call you. And this is but a tiny snap shot of the guidelines laid down by The Rules authors, Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider.

So how did Lively follow The Rules? A friend of Lively told Now Magazine: "Blake loves dating book The Rules and has been following it to the letter.

"She knew Leo could have any girl he wanted and she figured she had to stand out from the crowd."

It seems that DiCaprio's split from Refaeli may have been the key catalyst for their blossoming romance, with the source adding:

"Blake told him he had to break up with Bar before she'd even go on a date with him, so he did.

'She's making him work for it - and he's fallen hard for her."

So what are 'The Rules'? Well, there are many do's and don'ts, but it seems the 'Top Ten' are fundamental to success:

Top Ten Rules To Bag a Man

Possess a sense of confidence and radiance that permeates your being from head to toe

You won't meet Mr Right sitting at home

If he never asks you out, he's not interested

You never know who has access to your emails

It's the equivalent of three dates, so no sex or sleep-overs either

Men should always pursue women first

Bottom line

You've already spent more than a year waiting for him to propose; do you have another year to wait?

Is he cheap? Or overly critical?

Take care of yourself, take a bubble bath and build up your soul with positive slogans like 'I am a beautiful woman. I am enough.'

Source: http://www.therulesbook.com/rule10.html