― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
My friend who got the placemats took them back to Target and exchanged them for some jewelry. Her husband - who has a huge ego - was a bit crushed.
(xpost)
Dan - do you know that I am a lip balm addict (as well as lipstick)? You don't think your Mom would adopt me? (And consider switching to Burt's Bees...)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
perhaps also personal? gifts that relate to chores can be a drag.
― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
(xpost to Fluffy Bear)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I have gotten much better at the whole folding the clothes thing, but I am definitely the designated ironer in our house. My gf can't iron to save her life. She bats her eyes at me and her voice gets all girlish and then she asks me to iron her shirt or a skirt or something - it's not exactly romantic.
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't. I just find it confusing. :-( I suppose now I'm starting to see the anti-Balkanisation stance, when neutral threads are taken over by Balkans I'm not part of.
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes. Evidence that the man is thinking about you and appreciating you, and understands that this appreciation should be expressed every now and then, not just assumed.
but aren't we talking about the forms that that evidence and expression should take? and are there certain forms of evidence and expression from which people "just assume" meaning?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, because the "appreciation" statement you quoted above is completely correct and pretty much a given. There's nowhere to really go from there except concrete examples.
As for just assuming, for some people (traditionally men of a certain age and generation) the act of working a soul-killing, unfulfilling job all day in order to bring home regular paychecks is a kind of evidence...but it's not particularly romantic and it's actually terribly sad and unnecessary outside of, say, the gold mines of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and it would take a pretty grimly understanding kind of wife to accept that sacrifice and consider it "evidence" enough.
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
LE CUET!!!!!
― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pork Cheops (willpie), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pork Cheops (willpie), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pork Cheops (willpie), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, spontaneous actions can create a body of reference for future romance.
― Fluffy Bear, among 100% of the population (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
seriously, are these a universal aphrodesiac? it's well documented that i would trade all i have and myself as well for a decent g.c.s.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
CHRIS, WHO TOLD YOU THE SEAN PENN THEORY?? Was it me? I can't remember.
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
i've known this since i was 12.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost yeah, of course, romance must be experienced through the agency of another, that's what relationships and romance and blahbittyblahblah are for god's sake, I mean the statement makes utterly no sense as it is phrased.
― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Fair enough, but I don't think the question implies that and I see no reason why the female perspective isn't legitimate or that targeting the question specifically to women isn't legitimate.
The really interesting question that you bring up would be to ask the ladies what they feel is romantic for THEM to do for their SOs.
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Analz.
― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
In other words, if we take "romance" as (mostly) defined in this thread, then of course men like it, if "it" is something unique to them or their partners. Finding the right lever to move a person is the whole POINT!
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
My mother thought it was incredibly sweet and said so. The thing is, she only found the watch. When she finally discovered the note about three years later (!), she pretty much burst into tears, she was so touched.
There's just something about unexpected romantic gestures even if it's three years late.
― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link