a backyard decking and some seating benches cushions.... lighted candles, a handmade table the tree covering and you can impress her that you did this all for her. |
My dad, may he RIP...once told me if a man can dream it... and has skillful hands he can put things together with wood and nails Therefore he can Amaze a woman... I have to believe that my dad (a carpenter) knew what he taught me would come in handy....I will try doing some projects that just require some sweat and creativity .....
the question I've been asked not too long ago: "How often do men just pay a woman, they admire, a complement without expecting to get into her pants..?"
My simple answer was I always have motives... I do things with purpose... not necessarily selfish moves... but I often think about what would she like and then I make it a worthwhile project. Sometimes I turns out well and our friendship grows and may lead to greater things in our relationship.
this brings me to the point I want to make...
If you’re in the friend zone, how do you get out?
Whether she’s a new acquaintance or you're someone she has known for years, having a friend who isn’t clearly reciprocating or denying your romantic interest is a challenging situation to navigate. Do you profess your love and risk losing the friendship? Do you bide your time, just waiting for something to happen? Or do you let it go, try to add some distance to your friendship, and look for love elsewhere?
Hidden love can be frustrating and emotionally distressing. Your heart pounds every time you’re with your friend, but you have no clear evidence that your friend feels (or doesn’t feel) the same way. You might feel anxious and uncertain, but hopeful as well: Could this turn into a romantic relationship?
all this took was some rope, a n air mattress on a wooden platform some pillow and some battery operated candles. |
A new study out of the University of Maryland suggests that friendships are more likely to transition into romantic relationships when individuals engage in a bit of a cognitively biased thinking. It turns out that many enamored individuals project their strong romantic feelings onto their friends, even when those friends aren’t actually interested. In other words, people with strong feelings often overestimate their other-sexfriends’ romantic interest in them. This false thinking has a fascinating outcome: It motives individuals to initiate real behaviors that can actually cause friends to reciprocate their interest.
It goes like this:
- Person A and Person B are friends.
- Person A holds strong feelings of romantic and sexual attraction for Person B, and projects those feelings on to Person B such that Person A thinks Person B is attracted to him/herself.
- The belief of romantic reciprocation gives Person A the confidence to enact behaviors that can actually have a real favorable influence on Person B’s feelings.
- Person A might flirt more, dress to impress, engage in intimate conversations, etc. In other words, Person A behaves differently because of a false belief that Person B is interested.
- The outcome: Person B becomes interested.
Self-fulfilling prophecies can be powerful mechanisms and they underscore the importance of our thoughts and beliefs during social interactions. If we believe others are attracted to us, we might in fact do the behaviors that actually make them attracted to us, confirming our initial belief. And what was initially an illusion becomes reality.
Projection of romantic interest is not a universal phenomenon in other-sex friendships, even when those strong romantic feelings are held. The research tested the effect of self-perception on projection and discovered that people who viewed themselves as highly desirable partners engaged in projection more than those with less-favorable self-views. If you think yourself to be highly desirable, you may be more apt to think friends agree.
Further, projection doesn’t always lead to romantic interest, even when it motivates relationship initiation behaviors (e.g., flirting). Attraction can be positively influenced, but only if it starts off as neutral to favorable. If a friend doesn’t view his or her pursuer as a desirable romantic partner (e.g., having high mate value), the outcome isn’t favorable. Further, there’s a dark side to projection, as it could produce unwanted sexual advances if not tempered with an accurate sensitivity to feedback received during social interaction.
So flirting with you actual worked? |
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