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- From: peregrin@husc15.harvard.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: Possible FAQs (with answers!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.103038.19853@husc15.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:30:38 EST
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- In dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) writes:
- >> That reminds me---what would people like to see in the FAQ (I'll compile
- >>one we can post weekly or monthly)?
- >>
- >> o Why Women Choose Jerks Over Nice Guys
-
- Perhaps lets combine this with the similar question below..
-
- >> o What to do if a woman flirts off and on
-
- I tend to see this as one of two possibilities:
-
- 1) The woman is not sure that you are interested and is trying to
- play both sides.
-
- 2) You have different opinions of what flirting is than she does.
- Hence, where you see a regular pattern of on and off flirting, she
- may only think she truly flirted a couple of times.
- >
- > - Why do men choose bimbos over Nice Women?
-
- Better yet:
-
- - Why do men/women choose bimbos/jerks over Nice Women/Nice Men?
-
- People are quickly drawn to dynamic and sexy people. Unfortunately,
- these are external attributes, and it often takes a few courses in the school
- of Hard Knocks to learn to see the totality of someone.
-
- > - What to do when he (or she) doesn't call and promised to?
-
- Then you hold little weight in their promises. And you take
- responsibility for deciding whether the person is worth it.
-
- > - When is it Mr/Mrs Right?
-
- When you sit on a park bench, pondering this question, and God
- appears next to you and says "Go ahead, you are making the right decision
- and have my blessing. Congratulations."
-
- Otherwise, I am skeptical IMHO, about the belief in the OneTrueLove.
- I do believe that there are patterns in life that will draw certain people
- towards you, and that if you are a HappyHealthy (tm) person, you will attract
- the same.
-
- If we can assume that at any given time in our lives we know what
- "Right" is, then maybe we can know when we've found this person. But I
- feel that at my stage in life (27), I still don't know all there is to
- know about people and this world. So I make my best guess, and I look out
- for myself.
-
- > - I keep getting "I love you like a brother, but..." (or something like it)
-
- I think that statements such as "I love you like a brother, LJBF",
- or "I love you too much to make you have a relationship with me right now, LBJF",
- or "You're the most wonderful person in the world, for someone else, LJBF.",
- ...are of very little value. Simply put, they are worthless because they
- can't be proven.
- How can you know when your are told the above lines, that you are
- getting the truth? I think that the person saying these things may want to
- spare your feelings and can't think of any other nice way of putting it.
-
- Solution? More patience maybe. Patience with the world (eventually
- you'll find someone) and maybe patience with other people (eventually
- you'll meet people who know what they want out of life).
-
- > - Whenever I try to turn friendships into romances, I get burned...
-
- Yep, this sure is risky. You risk something you have for something
- that might be. I think too many people assume that if you venture into
- romance and fail, you can fall back onto the friendship.
- But when you open your heart to romance, you expose the more sensitive
- part of you, and you wound easier and it is harder to heal.
-
- > - No one loves me, why? (And I'm a Nice Guy, too.)
-
- 1) Be more patient.
- 2) Start doing things to increase the odds of meeting more people.
-
- > - I can't get dates, what do I do?
-
- Change your method.
- (It's the only answer. One can back this up with PAGES of supporting
- evidence, but many people don't want to hear it.)
-
- > - I believe in love and romance, how can I be cured? ;-)
-
- Get married then divorced.
-
- -James
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