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- From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
- Subject: Re: Frustrations of the Helpless Romantics...
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- Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:40:37 GMT
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- gdn5220@Msu.oscs.montana.edu writes:
- >Ok, here is a question for all of you romance buffs out there. Am I the only
- >male on the face of the Earth that wants a steady relationship and can't find
- >one?
-
- No, you're not. Most of them seem to be here on the net :-)
-
- >For the past two years it seems like the only people that I am attracted
- >to either have not got the foggiest idea what the word relationship means, what
- >romance is, are going out with someone else, or would like to get married the
- >next day and have fourteen children. What the hell am I doing wrong?
-
- Maybe nothing. But maybe they are...
-
- >Is it so much to ask to find someone to fall in love with.
-
- Not at all. Unfortunately, although it's easy to ask, it's not easy to
- find. Sometimes you get lucky, but for most of us there's an awful lot
- of waiting involved.
-
- >The other thing that puzzles me, is all of the girls that I do know
- >occationally come and talk to me and tell me that there arn't any guys out
- >there that want a serious relationship. All they want is sex. WHAT ABOUT
- >ME!!!!! I mean, I like to be able to curl up next to someone in a warm bed
- >just as much as the next person, but that isn't what I need to make a
- >relationship work. I would just like to find someone to go do things with on
- >the weekends insteed of always going out with the guys, or just myself. I'd
- >like to be able to cook dinner for someone, or give them roses. I'd like
- >someone just to hold onto when I have had a bad day, or to be able to hold them
- >when they have had a bad day. Is that so much to ask.
- >If anybody has any suggestions on anything new I can try please tell me.
-
- Ah. What you have here is a classic "NiceGuy(tm)" scenario. This has
- been discussed at length in alt.romance, so I won't try to start the
- thread again. If I said that most women went for the guys who don't
- want a serious relationship, I'd be bombarded by all the women who
- don't.
-
- The problem appears to be this - we have a whole bunch of NiceGuys(tm)
- and a whole bunch of NiceGirls(tm). Both are usually inflicted with the
- dreaded shyness disease. Consequently they don't meet, or even if they
- do, they never get to know each other. So, alas, they stay lonely
- NiceGuys and NiceGirls...
-
- I suspect that there may be a NiceGirl who really likes you, but is too
- shy to approach you.
-
- I don't know the solution to the problem. If I did, I wouldn't be a
- lonely NiceGuy like the rest, would I? All I know is that love appears
- when you least expect it, and when you are being true to yourself. What
- I *can* say is that if you do the things that you like to do, say the
- things that are true to you, be the best person you know how to be, you
- will find someone.
-
- She *is* out there, but the harder you search, the less likely you are
- to find her. I know it's contradictory, but the more whole you feel
- within yourself without *needing* someone else, the more likely you are
- to attract someone. I think for love to really work, you need two
- individuals working in synergy - whole in themselves, but so much more
- for being together. If each needs the other to validate themselves,
- they end up drawing on the other person instead of accepting what is
- freely given. Both end up feeling unfulfilled. But when two people
- come together, giving freely... wow!
-
- Rob
- Official Journeyman-Harper of the RFA
-
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- Rob Geraghty | 3 things are important to me
- robg@citr.uq.oz.au | The gift of love, the joy of life
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