To Woo: To try to get the love of; seek as a spouse; court make an offer, propose, seek in marriage, set one's cap for, make advances, caress, hold dear, carry on with, give the rush, keep company, go steady, come on to, put the make on.
A lot of us ladies on CS are hoping to make a love connection with someone. What if you saw a guy's profile that interested you and you make contact. Now a lot of guys get flowers and mail every day from other women. How would you try and make your initial e-mail and any further contact stand out from the pack? How would you go about trying to make this a solid connection and woo this guy.
Single female looking for intelligent fellow, easy on the eyes with own ship to sail across the ocean to come get me. Must not hog the clothes closet and drive me batty with his snoring
I thought it might be interesting and different to do a thread where people who are really eager to meet someone(and haven't been having much luck) could come and write something fun about themselves and what they are looking for. After all you never know if a future love connection could be reading and might want to connect. Hey what could it hurt and it sure beats putting up a thread saying "DAMN YOU WOMAN -JUST GET WITH ME!"
Finding love is all about risk. You sometimes have to risk getting hurt, kiss a lot of frogs to find the one. Sometimes who you end up being attracted to is nothing like your ideal. Life is funny that way. If you risk nothing you might end up missing a potential mate.
What's wrong with the title? Hey I'm just using a word that I see a lot in profiles, Everyone has their view on what's decent or indecent. There are those who have had the luck of the draw and found someone, now if they would just sprinkle some of that fairy dust on the rest of us
Perhaps a better choice of word could be 'compatible'. I am sure most of us are just looking for someone we find attractive and vice versa. Someone who will love us for who we are flaws and all.
Recently there seems to be a lot of threads with people complaining that even though they are decent, honest, not into head games etc...they just can't seem to meet equally decent folks here on CS. Why can't all these decent people meet and make a connection? Some have taken the more direct approach with threads practicaly screaming "Take me I'm available!"
Why does it have to be that way? Are the expectations too high, Distance to find love too far to travel? Cultural differences too difficult to put aside? What's the problem? Perhaps the answers lay not with CS but on the inside, what do you want and why can't you find it? Perhaps all it takes is leaving your comfort zone a little and reaching out to someone you would not normally have contacted, sometimes you never know where a thing could lead. The important thing is to never give up though, I believe love is still out there.
Sorry to hear about that Sassy. We had a great friendship going for these years, then he said he wanted more and I was interested. He acts like he wants guarantees that this is going to work out(a relationship) and I can give no such guarantees, its all about taking a chance. There are times I wonder if it should not have been just left as a friendship,now there are emotions involved. The hurt comes from knowing that because of this stalemate you stand to loose not only the friend but the friendship as well.
I am glad to see that some men have the backbone to go for it and you got your man summer I don't usually get this way but something happened on the way to drop my kid of at daycare that got me thinking about how we waste precious moments of time in indecision instead of sometimes just going for it.
This morning I witnessed a horrible accident on the same bus route I cross everyday with my kid. A guy got knocked down by a goverment official's car then run over by a bus. I had to pass this awful site to get to the daycare. As I saw this guy lying there I thought about how fleeting time can be. He won't have another minute to turn and hug and kiss someone and tell them he loved them and we the living sometimes make a mockery of this precious thing we call time. I say if you think you found something good you should go for it and take a chance and not waste a minute of the happiness you've found.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Sommer While all the plans were being made about where we would go and what we would do I think he had an image and a script in his mind as to how it would all go. But I know life does not always work to a script and he wanted me to make sure that things went to his perfect script, I had a more laid back approach, one that would take the pressure off us both and that was to just to relax and take things as they come, that way we would not have the stress of too many expectations to get in the way of getting to know each other. Guess I didn't provide enough script material Anyway he's been divorced for some time and had shared custody of his kid.
I really appreciate everyone's comments and I some real gems of wisdom here. Here's my own take on the situation. I know I'm not the most patient of persons but if I've had two years of online friendship(he was the one who reminded me of how long we've known each other)and the guy ups one day and says why not let's see where this can go I'm gonna be curious to see what else there is. Now that we've gotten over some bumps in the road and we decide I dig you, you dig me and we've both said how we feel then its on to the next step, since we've been nothing more than a photo on a screen and a voice on a phone, I say its high time to lay the cards on the table and meet, at first he said he would then decided not to. The hour glass of my patience is almost empty so I've taken a hiatus from accepting e-mails and IM for now. Sometimes people don't appreciate a thing until its lost to them forever.
Here are two scenarios. You've been seeing a guy in real or you met someone online. In the first instance you've met,dated and seem compatible on many levels but he's still hesitant to take the next step of committment, or for those who've met online you've sent IM, e-mails, phonecalls till all hours and you're acting like you are already in a relationship, yet he hesitates to visit you and see where your're heading. In both scenarios how long would you be patient and wait before you thought of moving on.
Just adding my two cents worth to the discussion. I tried arranging a meeting this year with someone I had met online about two years ago. Sadly he bailed out on me, we still talk almsot everyday but its frustrating, he says he's interested in going to the next level and I am too but all the talk, IM and e-mails in the world can't seal the deal of compatability until you finally meet.
Some are comfortable with the shield of a computer screen in front of them but if you are going to be serious your gonna have to meet at some point and see how it goes. I have a young kid so I would prefer the first meeting to be with them at a hotel, we could meet go out to dinner and spend time getting to know each other better face to face. I would not want the pressure on me that something physical has to happen, I am not saying it would not, just that I think first meetings should be about soul searching and seeing if there really is a basis for a future relationship.
I don't think the problem is so much that women are not clear about what they want, its just that sometimes men and women aren't talking the same language.
How would you woo a man on CS
To Woo:To try to get the love of; seek as a spouse; court
make an offer, propose, seek in marriage, set one's cap for, make advances, caress, hold dear, carry on with, give the rush, keep company, go steady, come on to, put the make on.