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- From: s206001@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: H*ll of a situation!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.093819.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:38:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.163019.1802@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <7593@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- In article <7593@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>, doughe@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Douglas E Helbling) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov12.163019.1802@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_arthurjk@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
- >>I haven't met a nice young woman to have a rewarding relationship
- >>with in over two years. Love just isn't on my side. I'm sort of shy
- >>around women but I don't think that's the main problem. People
- >>This is one h*ll of a situation to be in!
- >>What, if anything, can I do to get out of this predicament?
- >>This is not a joke! I'm serious.
- >>
- >>Jay
- >
- > Jay, you have my sympathies, to a point. If you're half as
- > nice as you say, and what you want really is a nice women
- > (not be be confused with Innocent and Pure), then chew on this:
- >
- > 1) Many "nice" women do not necessarily want a nice man. They
- > want an exciting man. "Nice" can equate to "safe", or worse
- > yet, Boring.
- >
- > 2) Many nice people have been burned or worse by others appearing
- > to be Nice.
- >
- > 3) Many of these apparently Nice People were actually Nice Married
- > People in disguise.
- >
- >
- > This, in my humble opinion, explains the skepticism and lukewarm
- > reception many Nice People get when in situations where they meet
- > other available Nice People. The fact that you're bothered by
- > the situation suggests that you have yet to surrender your integrity
- > to the point of appearing other that who you are. Perhaps you,
- > like a few of us out here, still believe in the notion of a "Ms.
- > Right for Me", someone who is not perfect, but at least compatible.
- >
- > Okay, so you asked for advice. Here's mine (FWIW):
- >
- > 1) Continue to be yourself. But try to make a sublte point of some
- > aspects of you or your life that differentiate the nice you
- > from the tame and boring you. You don't have to wear a
- > lamp shade or personally save whales or jump out of planes.
- >
- > 2) Go places that that nice women go and be yourself there.
- >
- > 3) Keep going there. Persistance and consistency are the
- > magic words here.
- >
- > Good luck. The right person is worth the wait. Just make sure
- > to enjoy the almost right, but still enjoyable people along the way.
- >
- >
- > Doug H
- Yep FWIW I believe that Doug is right Jay there are very *nice* women out there
- that you've yet to meet without having to become a bastard and hurting someone
- else along the way. Perservere we all go through it and maybe it helps to know
- that men and women alike experience this 'phenomenon'.
- Cheers Irene.
-