Posted on 09/17/2005 6:59:48 AM PDT by teldon30
Dear Amy: I'd like to be in a relationship again, but I never even get asked out (unless you count frisky 85-year-olds and drunks at the corner bar). I'm a 32-year-old woman who's happy, sociable, and attractive. (I paid for college by modeling and continue to take care of myself.) I'm second-in-command at a big company, financially secure, and own a beautiful home. How can I meet men in general, and more specifically, men I'd actually want to date?
Deluxe Chopped Liver
Dear Deluxe: To scare away vampires, it takes garlic and crosses, which make ugly bulges in sleek, satin evening bags. Luckily, all you have to do to scare away men is pull out a business card that says ''senior vice president.''
''Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,'' said Henry Kissinger. Sure it is unless you're a woman. Research by Stephanie L. Brown and Brian P. Lewis, published in Evolution and Human Behavior (Nov. '04), seems to confirm what many lonely women at the top already know: When guys go for the woman in the boardroom, it isn't the woman running the meeting but the secretary who wheeled in the coffee and croissants before it started.
Sure, plenty of men will scamper up the corporate ladder for a one-night stand. But, according to Brown and Lewis' study, men looking for dates or relationships tend to prefer their subordinates to their colleagues or bosses. The researchers hypothesize that men evolved to want women they can control as a means of guarding against ''parental uncertainty'' unwittingly raising kids fathered by the Neanderthal next door as their own. Brown and Lewis think this may also explain why men are suckers for ''behavioral expressions of vulnerability'' women who act like they might not be able to make it across the street
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OMG Yes!
They may not start out that way, but give'm long enough and they end up that way!
Ever visited Phoenix in the summer?
I dunno about that.
I ran across one or two real stinkers in my time.
One's sense of smell does diminish with time, though.
Well,
I don't use perfume. In the places I hang out the nats and mosquitos love that stuff.
On occasion I've probalbly smelled like fish -- after I unhooked them from hooks all day.
I did have one guy tell me after I came off the bay (fishing) and my hair was a tangled mess, that he just liked the disheveled look.
Took me a week to comb out all the tangles, but my hair was long, straight and, well, tangled.
But we wimmonfolk are talking about the stuff you can't put in a perfume bottle.
Most of the time, us men do need that.
Call me ol' fashioned, but when I encounter a female, well dressed, well groomed, attractive and well spoken (denoting a level of intelligence), I call them Ladies.
Keep in mind; flirting is not a sin. As a matter of fact I find that quite flattering for a 48 years old guy, to have the "common on" for the ladies.
Not even my wife minds it, provide I do not cross the line she said.
I believe the foundation of a relationship whether marriage or otherwise is the level of trust and commitment one brings in that relation, thus a sense of security on both sides will be raised and will overcome the temptations I just mentioned.
Nothing will surpass individual moral integrity and conviction.
I've seen that phenomenon as well. My ex sat in an apartment for 4 yrs....trying to figure out how to balance a checkbook. *chuckle*
That is what the little, portable air compressors are for-- I keep one in my van. It cost about $15.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!
"And men like being pursued."
I don't really need to be pursued, but I'd at least like a sign that a woman is interested. I'm fairly smart, but I'm not psychic. Small words, short sentences give the least opportunity for misunderstanding.
That smell is part of the "chemistry".
That and gestures, I love it when a woman reaches
behind her head and lifts her hair off her neck,
drives me wild, a lovely neck is a thing of beauty.
But that's what I was talking about, too.
Read my post again.
It may sound awful--but it always worked for me!
(Only kidding. Although I confess I have thought about it.)
curious, I noticed over the years, that is before women took over the office, that men always had a picture, of the "wife" and children...but, then after the women arrived, one would only see a picture, of the children, no "husband"....
Try Avon Skin so Soft.
Mixed with water, people spray their horses with it to keep the flies off.
Ick... Ick and Ick again!! LOL
Well, when you're ready to dump that loser, let me know?
Hey reasonable,
I dicovered the Skin So Soft years ago.
I took a little 13-year-old boy fishing down in a swamp in Louisiana a few years ago, and the skeeters wouldn't come near you if you had it on.
However, I was camping in a state forest, and took a shower in one of the public bathhouses the last night. I was probably tired or something, and got out of the shower, put on my clothes, and bathed the EXPOSED parts of my body in it.
I woke up the next morning, in a tent, and had all the covered parts of my body eaten alive.
Them skeeters love me.
Plus, I don't think it helps to catch fish when your hands are covered with this stuff and you have to tie on another bait.
I am learning to just wear more clothes now. Cover the eatable parts up.
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