How long till you fell - a poll
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| Wed, 04-09-2003 - 9:23am |
For those of you who've successfully dated (or are still dating) guys who were more into you than you were into them at the beginning, who you didn't find all that physically attractive at first but now give you major butterflies - how long were you dating them before things changed and you became really into them?
I've never had anything like this happen for me, I've always gone for that initial rush. But most of my girlfriends do or have done things the other way, and those always seem to be the most successful relationships (damn human nature! is finding happiness ALL about learning how to subvert your instincts?). I've got a really great guy here who I can talk to for hours, who I feel very close to - but no butterflies.
Anyone have any great "transformation" stories?
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- Should I contact him or not? 24
- why I am still single 3
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- Message board mechanics: is this as good as it gets? 11
- Everything is Played Out 11
- Where do we go from here? 8
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She met this guy in Grade 9. He was always chasing after her, but she didn't feel the "rush". Eventually, he wore he down and she dated him for two months. No sparks. (tho, he was very HOT and had his pick of women!) They broke up but stayed friends.
5 yrs later, my sister breaks up with a bf (she always had a bf and a line of men waiting!). She cries on guy from grade 9's shoulder. He listens, he supports, and eventually he makes a move. She starts dating him. After a few weeks, she is like "Why didn't I see how HOT he was before?" LOL. They have been together for 16 yrs...married for 10...and he still makes her swoon when he turns on the charm.
Go.
lol, go. no wonder you have trouble falling for guys you met online - how can such a meeting even compare? ;-)
Go.
An overweight guy wouldn't appeal to me....not becuase he's overweight (I've been there and done that for most of my life till the last 6 years)....but because he couldn't participate in my very active and athletic life as a partner. And partnership and a playmate is what is REQUIRE of my new relationship - I went thru 4 marriages being the provider/doormat/scapegoat due to my own dysfunctionality.
So, in my case it's not that being overweight would be the problem...it's what being overweight impacts would be the problem.
The "problem" not not be what you think. Can you be specific about what doesn't "appeal"?
Erin
quickblade14@hotmail.com
There is one thing to realize....when I say I want you to run with me - I don't mean 3 miles. I'm talking marathon distance - and that's just a training run. It's not likely that someone who participates at the level I do in ultra-marathon and ultra-endurance extreme events (think eco-challenge and you'll be on target for the type of events) is overweight, at least not by much.
It's not unusual for overweight men and women to pass me at mile 24 in a marathon. I average a 4 hour marathon, that's not "great". It's just average. The thing is, I get on a bike afterwards and cycle 150 miles....that is generally where the partner tends to give out on me.
Erin
quickblade14@hotmail.com
Erin
quickblade14@hotmail.com
wow, them's pretty tough standards...
He hasn't got to "beat me in a marathon" - I don't care if he runs one at all. But he's got to be someone that shares my active life. I want someone to run the 12-14 miles with in the morning while the sun comes up in the Texas hill country where I live. I want someone that "understands" due to participation on some level paddling canoes and kayaks - because that is what I love to do. My "vacations' are loading my solo boat with goods (not an easy feat in a racing canoe!) and paddling 60 miles the first day and camping at the park, running into town for a good meal, reading a book by the campfire I made, and getting up in the morning and being out the water paddling way and towards the next destination 60 miles downriver by sun up - because the water is so beautiful as the sun is rising on it.
That's all I meant.....he's going to have to be very "active", not necessarily athleticall competitive. But to keep up with me - he is going to have to be very athletic.
And there is the male ego to consider......if you're going to be my "bank bunny" (as the person on the bank who supplies water and ice is normally called" - it's bad enough to be a man with that title. It's worse yet to see your girlfriend being acknowledged as "one of the guys" and being considered as and competed against by the competitors as "one of the men". And it's going to have the potential to be really horrendous to be "the bank bunny for the toughest woman in the world in a solo boat" when the 2 or 3 guys that beat me out of the pack of 20 get ahold of you somewhere in private. Not to mention, it's just not easy for a man to be with a woman who is tougher mentally that he is by pursuing the toughest things in the world solo because she considers it "fun".
In light of all that.....he's going to have to be very secure, he likely will NOT be a paddler because healthy competition is NOT something possible between two people competing for the same title and trophy to return home at night to the same bed as a rule, but to enjoy, appreciate, accept and understand that 4-6 hours of my waking hours, NOT the hours spent at work from 8-5, are spent training or preparing to race....to be in my life...he at least needs to be able to do the morning 12-14 miler where there's no slack and no mercy on the pace....because there's not going to be regrets on the finish line due to compromised training efforts.
Erin
quickblade14@hotmail.com
I don't think you're open to falling for this guy because the "pay off" is not worth it to you to wait it out - again not a criticism just a mindset that it is my impression you have. For me - having been burned before at rationalizing to myself that the passion didn't matter - cost thousands in a cancelled wedding - if I don't feel chemistry (butterflies not necessary, but of course great) within the first 6-7 dates (and typically, if I don't feel it within 4, it's also goodbye) then I stop seeing the person - at minimum, within the first 3 dates at the very most I at least have to think that kissing him would be nice - if I can't imagine kissing him, it probably will not work. I did date someone I couldn't imagine kissing - on date 5, we had sparks, however - (we went ice skating, so who knows whether it was the physical activity) and we kissed and it was nice - but on dates 6-8 I found it robotic, mechanical, boring, etc.
Also, I think there is more to it here than physical issues - you might be sensing insecurity on his part or that he is too eager to please which is not sexy to me and might not be sexy to you.
So - yes I have to feel some chemistry early on - but I think for now you should got only for those where you are "wow!!!!" on date one. (wasn't sure I made that distinction clear). Best to you.
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