OT: Advice....

[primitive]

Isn't you half Norwegian [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Norway.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/VikingHelm.gif[/img] Renegade ?

You got to embrace your Norwegianess. Bottle up those emotions. Keep it all in. Don't show any weakness

Seriously: Tell her. You won't regret it.
Why do you think women spend all this time in front of the mirror ?
They crave attention. Nothing they like more than to hear they are wanted. Even if you are rejected as boyfriend material there is little risk she will turn you down as a friend. Any awkwardness following a rejection will probably be of your own making. Remember; women are much better at these things than we are

[Slynky]

primitive said:
Isn't you half Norwegian [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Norway.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/VikingHelm.gif[/img] Renegade ?

You got to embrace your Norwegianess. Bottle up those emotions. Keep it all in. Don't show any weakness

Seriously: Tell her. You won't regret it.
Why do you think women spend all this time in front of the mirror ?
They crave attention. Nothing they like more than to hear they are wanted. Even if you are rejected as boyfriend material there is little risk she will turn you down as a friend. Any awkwardness following a rejection will probably be of your own making. Remember; women are much better at these things than we are

Ahhh, nice to see you, Big P! Seriously! Glad you still poke around here.

So, no dragging by the hair with a big club? LOL

When's your next game going to be?

[primitive]

Still browse the forums once in a while.

Not much time for playing though. I'm in Pairs and RTH2 and thats more than enough for the moment

[sachmo]

Tell her you would like to take her on a date. Try to have a good time. Date for a while. THEN tell her about your feelings. If you play all of your cards up front, there is nothing to build on.

[Slynky]

sachmo said:
Tell her you would like to take her on a date. Try to have a good time. Date for a while. THEN tell her about your feelings. If you play all of your cards up front, there is nothing to build on.

But the word, "date", means more than he might like to discuss. I mean, saying the "D" word already indicates more than a friendship. Perhaps the "D" word WITH something like I said before.

[sachmo]

Slynky said:

But the word, "date", means more than he might like to discuss. I mean, saying the "D" word already indicates more than a friendship. Perhaps the "D" word WITH something like I said before.

I disagree. I feel that asking someone on a date is pretty low risk, and says everything you need in the question. He says,

"Hey, let's go out on a date."

Then, she will react. Either she wants to go or she doesn't. Unless she's clueless, she'll know he likes her. How much does he like her? Well, she'll have to go on a date to find out.

My experience has been that if I try to tell a woman how I feel, I either end up screwing it up and looking like a psycho, or sounding like an idiot. I feel that in some instances, if I had just started with something low pressure like, "I want to go out with you" then the object of my affections would have an easy time of just saying yes or no, with no hard feelings. If I sat down and composed a love poem to her, and then asked her out at the end (like I've done), they usually run away screaming.

[PvK]

sachmo said:
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My experience has been that if I try to tell a woman how I feel, I either end up screwing it up and looking like a psycho, or sounding like an idiot. I feel that in some instances, if I had just started with something low pressure like, "I want to go out with you" then the object of my affections would have an easy time of just saying yes or no, with no hard feelings. If I sat down and composed a love poem to her, and then asked her out at the end (like I've done), they usually run away screaming.

Yes, I've seen this happen from several perspectives before (from my own effort, to hearing about it happening to someone else from the girl herself), about six times that I can think of. The very best reaction to honest disclosure of strong feelings I've seen is polite, "sorry, no", and the worst was savage, "I hate you!!! Leave me alone!!! etc. etc." Success rate 0 for 6 tries. However it seems you _can_ say they made a great impression, and that can work well. You just can't let on that you already have strong feelings, because girls tend not to understand that, and not to want it until they've been going out with the guy for a while.

[Renegade 13]

sachmo said:
Tell her you would like to take her on a date. Try to have a good time. Date for a while. THEN tell her about your feelings. If you play all of your cards up front, there is nothing to build on.

Sometimes the simplest approaches are the best, eh? I find myself agreeing with this approach a lot. Thanks so much for your wise words. But as mentioned above, I'm running out of time for now. Or else I'd write more

[Renegade 13]

primitive said:
Isn't you half Norwegian [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Flag_Norway.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/VikingHelm.gif[/img] Renegade ?

You got to embrace your Norwegianess. Bottle up those emotions. Keep it all in. Don't show any weakness

Seriously: Tell her. You won't regret it.
Why do you think women spend all this time in front of the mirror ?
They crave attention. Nothing they like more than to hear they are wanted. Even if you are rejected as boyfriend material there is little risk she will turn you down as a friend. Any awkwardness following a rejection will probably be of your own making. Remember; women are much better at these things than we are

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm only 1/4 Norwegian. But quite proud of my heritage!

On a more serious note, this advice seems quite logical to me, and has helped me a lot (along with all the other advice posted here)