Corporate Courtship: A Man’s Guide for Dating Professional Women
Men are naturally attracted to well-groomed females who are self-assured. It's the dating-world version of natural selection. Men who date professional women think their self-possession is sexy. They have reasons to be so confident, right?
If you have decided that you want to stop being curious and start dating professional women, be aware of some basics.
Respect their work schedules.
When dating professional women, realize their careers may engulf them.
A professional woman can not leave in the middle of the day to have an extended lunch with you. "Afternoon delight" will be difficult to pencil in between business meetings. Some nights she may work late. She may have to travel. She can not constantly be on the telephone, Blackberry, or online.
You will need to survive without constant contact when dating professional women.
Do not invade the place of employment.
While a bouquet of flowers now and then is acceptable, professional women usually do not shout from the rooftops about their love lives while in the presence of colleagues and co-workers. Frequent visits and giant teddy bears may undermine authority and distract the entire office.
Do not be greedy or needy when it comes to leisure time.
Men must retain a sense of autonomy and give the women they date the space to do likewise.
In her off-time, the career woman may sometimes need to be alone. Solitude may be her only time to relax, think, plan, or be creative. The professional woman needs leisure time to nurture a relationship with herself.
She may have employees and/or clients who need her all day, and family and friends that need her at night.
Find a hobby to occupy your time while a career woman maintains her obligations to family and friends. The relationships she is fostering with them could be part of your support network in years to come.
Do not ask for money.
Attraction transcends chosen career paths, financial standing, and social class.
That being said, if you are not in as good of a financial situation as the professionals you date, do not ask them for money (It's different if they make an offer to help you get out of a bind – but accepting is still "muddy waters.")
Dating professional women does not equal treating them like automated teller machines. If you need a loan, find a bank.
For many professional men, dating professional women is the natural choice. They understand what you must do on a daily basis to get ahead in the business world.
Lots of men find dating professional women to be a logical choice. It suits their temperament and their lives. Respect her as a professional and treat her like a lady, and you will find that a career woman will respond in kind.
That is what you call a "win-win situation."
Comments (4)
jade
This article is pathetic
The working professional woman of high calibre is busy, and her schedule's fullness, her battle-gear behavioural get-up at her place of employment, and her precious five minutes off the suits and out of the suit must all be absol-lutely respected. I respect a woman who can do all that for a promotion and a whatever. Men too. It's not me.
But please don't ask me not to ask her for money. If I am not allowed to do that, what's the point? Two and a half minutes of her time each month? Because her even more private life than her life with me, with her partner, chews up the other two-and-a-half minutes?
I can't call her at work... I can't drop in and goose her at her desk... I can't even look up at her window at night.
So fer crying out loud, at least I should have access to some of her money.
If not, she can go use her precious time for darning some socks or knitting two lines in a sweater each month until Christmas.
But whom can she give the sweater to when it's finished? That is YOUR question to answer, my dear young lady writer.
Can we say "Gender Biased"?
As a disclaimer, it should accurately state...
Harmful if Swallowed.