Tisha,
I appreciate your comments and am not looking to bash heads either, but felt that this thread should continue a bit more.
I agree that attraction can be created were none existed before, and have also seen it happen myself. What was meant by that comment is that attraction is not created by anything the man does, but how he acts. If he acts wimpy and caves to the girls every want or desire it’s not going to happen. However, if he acts like a MAN and stands up for himself, all the while showing respect, interest and consideration, but not acting like the womens errand boy or gopher, then whe MAY start to see him in a different light.
I think we can both agree that attraction and affection are 2 totally different things, and not at all inertwined, and have no relation to one another. If you can have a women feeling affectionately toward you, that’s no indication of a pending or potential relationship.
I didn’t mean or intend to say that our mothers intentionally steered us wrong. I truly believe that my mother and I believe most of our mothers had only the best intentions for us. Why do you think most men think that women want to be put onn pedestals and treated like princesses? Do you think that we all got together and decided that’s what women want? No, that’s how our mothers told us we should treat you.
You see everything in life has told me that the vast majority of women want to date bad boys, but marry good guys. When we put you up on pedestals we are not really fulfilling your needs, but more what our parents tolds us you wanted and what yours told you was deserved.
Then after the woman marries they tend to grow tired of the good guy routine and want the mystic of the bad boy. I believe our mothers were only telling us what it was they looked for in selecting a husband and thought they were truly helping us.
If you still disagree, just look at any romance novel, and see what’s said about heat pounding, physical, got to have him now attraction. It’s always about a bad boy, and never about a stable, secure, welll mannered, treats her so well kind of guy. That’s attraction, and wimpy behavior doesn’t generate that type of butterfly in the stomache attraction.
None of what I’ve said, or am saying now is coming from having been burned, it’s coming from experience. I’ve learned that women want and expect a challange from their mates, just as men do. If we make it to easy and pursue and treat a women to well from the start, they tend to look elsewhere for something more challanging.
I would love to find a women that really wants to be treated like a queen and would treat me like a king in return, and if that’s truly you, then you are one in a million, and you ought to move to Texas, because we could have a truly amazing relationship.
Don’t take offense to that last sentence, but I would kill or die to find a woman who truly wanted to be treated like a queen and would treat me like a king.
When I said that women don’t say what they mean or mean what they say, I was not meaing to offend any female, I was more intending it to fit in with the testing that I talked about earlier.
Let’s face it, in our society men are expected to pursue the women, and if a woman has many suiters, she needs to be able to quickly sort them out and that’s where the testing comes in. I never said it was a bad thing, I just wanted to get accross to the men that they should efpect as much.
anyway, from what you’ve said about yourself and the people you know, if you’re not already taken, you will make an incredible partner for some lucky guy, and I really hope he’s worthy of you!