SF doesn´t need to work his way into anyone's good graces... he knows he is adored my many here... I´m sure it´s not keeping him awake wondering if you like him or not.... and he will probably answer you much more graciously then I just did.
No Christmas shopping for me this year... I´ll be in the states for my daughter´s wedding in Feb and will give all my family their pressies then, so I´ll wait and shop during the sales after Christmas... all my male friends here are getting homemade soup, chilie, spagehetti sauce and brownies for their freezers...my place is known as the "soup kitchen" during the winter... and all my girlfriends want stuff from the States, so they get their presents when I get back.
I am looking forward to the "street celebrations" I live in a small town on a small Island and everybody comes out for 4 or 5 festivals over the next few weeks... I love walking around with friends with a hot chocolate and rum, listening to Spanish Christmas carols, kids running around, the giant tree in the town square... Christmas in a small community is magic!!!
I gave you a little bump on page 10 of !!!!????!!?Guys, BEWARE WHO you TALK TO!!!???????HAVE YOU BEEN SUCKED IN BY someone on this site??? thread.... and you just confirmed exactly what I said!
yep, I have huge commitment problems... always have had. I was the one who walked away from the 3 loves in my life... not because I stopped loving them, not because something better came along... at the time I thought I had good reasons to walk away, even though I still loved them. Now I know I left from fear.... it´s funny how you can make even the most foolish decisions seem justifiable.
Direct from my profile... what I look for in a relationship...
A relationship without drama, based on trust, respect and love. A relationship where your partner is your best friend, your lover.
A relationship where you work together supporting each other´s strengths and weakness´s in order to create a life together, to help each other achieve their goals.
A relationship that jealousy, ego and mistrust aren´t a part of.
A relationship in which you celebrate each other´s achievements and accomplishments without being threatened.
A relationship which is truly balanced with each person equally committed to making their partner happy.
Do you see anything about playing games, money etc...?
I think I´m pretty naked... at least to anyone who reads the forums... I think people here have seen all of my moods, insecurity, anger, laughter and even "hopefully smitten" if they were around last year.
My pictures are all candid, what my profile says is who I am and what I want out of life... I don´t see the point of hiding who I am, or of playing games... the only people I want to have attracted to me is someone who sees me for who I am and is happy that I am that way.
Sorry if you got the flack... but this is about the 5th or 6th thread that men have posted today that sounded like they were whining about women not appreciating them, or not wanting nice guys, or only wanting their money.... blah blah blah... and you got the tail end, nothing personal but you catch more women with laughter then whining...
... and if you hate it change it! Life is to short to spend half of our non working time doing something we hate. I left the states, my own business and a 6 figure income to backpack and live in hostels and camp for 3 years. I now work 6 months a year in the bar and restaurant industry because it´s what I love doing and I live, very happily, on less then a tenth of what I used to make
When I say I have a fantastic lifestyle I mean just that... It doesn´t mean that I live in a fancy house, or drive a sports car or have a lot of money. It means my life is fun, I have friends I love, do things that interest me. If I were sitting around waiting for a SO to "complete me" or create a life for me... it would be a bloody miserable existence.
Example: Saturday night a DJ friend was hosting a dressup party at a club... I went with a few friends danced, laughed, talked, danced some more until they closed the place at 6am, one friend said I´m having to much fun to end it now... come back to my place, so 6 or 7 of us did... he´s a music producer and has lots of fun recording equipment... so we all recorded songs... very, very bad songs... and laughed ourselves silly at the complete and utter lack of talent we possess.
A short while after that we received a call from another group of friends who invited us for brunch... and away we went. Had a great meal... I got into an amazing conversation with a guy I´ve known for about a year but only on a social level... he told me some mind blowing things about his upbringing and we bonded as friends in a way we hadn´t before.
After a 4 hour Sunday brunch we were invited to a friends villa to try out some new wines he had purchased, had a lovely couple of hours there before heading out to a friends gig, fantastic guitarist and singer and got home about midnight on Sunday. So from Saturday night straight through to sunday night I spent about 30€ had an amazing time filled with laughter and music and great conversation... was absolutely exhausted and went to bed with a smile on my face.
Could I have had a better time? With the right guy to cuddle up with, to share secret smiles across the room, to pull me close for a dance... yes, that would have made it better... but I´m not going to put my life on hold waiting for that to happen.
... and because of your preconceived notion of what women want, you have interpreted my post completely wrong. Where did I state what kind of job or how much money a man needs to earn? I stated that I earn a good living, I don´t need a man to provide it. I do expect a good work ethic in a man... I hate laziness and I expect that what ever he does, he does with passion and to the best of his ability.
What I said I expect from a man is that he enhance my life, that each day I wake up to him makes that day better then it would have been without him, that he doesn´t detract from my life by being a lazy, unintersting lump on the couch that expects 3 squares and clean laundry.
If there is a crush involved expect repercussions!!! It´s different when it´s purely a friendship... I have a couple of male friends that I can always call on to help me out with heavy stuff and they know they have a homemade meal coming for their efforts, we take care of each other... but when the giving is one sided and a crush in involved I thing you´re heading for trouble!
RE: Official Women Appreciation Thread
SF doesn´t need to work his way into anyone's good graces... he knows he is adored my many here... I´m sure it´s not keeping him awake wondering if you like him or not.... and he will probably answer you much more graciously then I just did.