Nitpick: per se. We now return to your regularly scheduled… whatever this thread is.
I hear the body has ways of shutting that down otherwise.
Splinters, for those trying to follow along at home.
I’m 55. Funny how things have changed - back then there was no problem with transitioning to romance with someone you’d known as a friend for a length of time. It was sort of expected I think.
I’ve never really believed that sort of thing reflected real life (tho I guess it now does), plus I don’t watch all that much TV of that sort so…
:rolleyes: Yeah, I can see that being like a challenge to some guys.
No, I don’t believe in love at first sight, but I also wouldn’t say it could never happen.
I think many if not most men are hunters unless/until they find that one woman who changes their outlook. Or they run out of steam. Or whatever.
Why do you assume it must be a generational thing and not, say, an individual thing?
Because this is the straight dope.
Despite 90% of all dopers in excess of 140 IQ, that same 90% can’t comprehend that there are people that like tattoo’s.
I guess that nobody believes it until it happens to them. I know I didn’t.
Which proves that I have been wasting My time here commenting. We obviously see things very different way. Teen age boys are a different thing ( or jerks that never grow up ).
Maybe You’re a creep magnet, pretty enough to be hit on but too scary to mild-mannered guys to be considered as a lifetime partner. Or whatever.
Also, if You think love at first sight is an illusion, how in the world You do believe that a woman can change a man?!? Now THAT is an illusion.
( There have been more than 300 posts after the OP last time commented and this haven’t been about him after 20 posts. Please let this thread die now, it’s in agony )
Or that pluralisation doesn’t call for apostrophes.
Touche.
Fortunately I estimate my IQ to be 139.99999 so I’m exempt from my own rant.
Do you believe in unrequited love? On another forum I went to, a woman claimed that unrequited love was impossible, despite the Divine Comedy and other examples. I think it’s possible, for instance, for someone to go to work in love with their partner, return home in love with their partner, only to find that their partner has met some unfortunate end in the meantime.
Hmmm… I think I have it. Your boobs got bigger during pregnancy, didn’t they?
You really don’t have a clue as to why?
This is one of the most bizarre threads I’ve read in a while.
You think I had a vote? ( ‘sigh’ )
No, no, no &c…
I feel pretty much that I’m explaining colours to a blind person.
She’s not perfect, never was and never will be.
And I don’t care her flaws.
I’m so tired of this… goodbye and ignore Me, I probably won’t come back to this thread anymore, I don’t want to keep hitting My head to the wall.
Love at first sight may exist, but it’s only thanks to blind luck. Plenty of people fall madly in love with people who are entirely unsuitable for them, hence pretty much the entirety of our literary and musical canon.
It sounds like you and yours have a mutual thing since the beginning, and neither a poet nor songwriter would take you to task for describing it as destiny, smitten, taken with, or love at first sight.
One of the many rabbit trails in this thread involves claims of love at first sight and unrequited love when things are clearly one-sided. Some guy wasting months or years pining away for a disinterested woman is not “in love”, he’s obsessed. It doesn’t devalue * your * experience; one sided obsession doesn’t apply to your experience.
If you’re thinking it was the boobs, then I have grossly underestimated the value of breasts. Because there was no position I can imagine that would allow access to my breasts without circumventing my ridiculously huge, round stomach with a popped bellybutton. The cost/benefit just doesn’t add up. Anyways, my breasts spent the last three months migrating to points east and west in an apparent attempt to escape my waxing tummy, so the presentation was decidedly unconventional. I looked like a cartoon. Guys can be weird, in my estimation.
Just have to put out there the fact that some heterosexual men find pregnant women to be insanely sexy.
Insanely sexy.
Unspeakably sexy in a primal manner.
I’m one of 'em.
While the re-arranging of your normal pre-fecundity profile may have been the source of irritation or at least dismay, it is entirely possible that a man was moved to more than glance your way.
Popped belly button and all.
Now, I mean no disrespect to women who have expressed intense feelings of feeling UNSEXY when pregnant. I get it. However, there’s no denying the way some men are wired around women who are expecting.
To me, any woman who is attractive gets even more attractive when she’s pregnant. Pregnancy belly is not a bug that counterbalances larger breasts; it’s a feature.
Ew ew ewwww.
Actually I thought it was because a pregnant woman is ‘safe’ to flirt with. You both know it’s not going anywhere.
Wrong again. Sigh.
Dear attractive married ewomen: Please Wear a Thong…sounds better to me!