What makes a man attractive?
I am always astounded by the totally ridiculous reasons women dump guys. I’ve heard things like, “He breathed too loudly” or “He owned too many dogs.” You just can’t predict the random things that turn women off. We are complex creatures, what can I say!
While we may vary on what makes a man unattractive, most women can agree on what makes a man attractive and irresistible. When a man has “that thing” or that sex appeal oozing from his pores, we all take notice.
I think a lot of men believe it’s their money or power, or even their status that draws women to them. That’s not necessarily true. Although those things have been known to attract a certain type of woman, smart women know it’s about a man’s character.
I always like to poll my coupled up friends and find out what it was that made them fall for their partner. I’d say a lot of the answers surprised their significant other! They had no idea there was something so specific and small that got their mate’s attention in the beginning.
I wonder if we really know what draws people to us? What makes a man attractive? What makes a woman stand out? Do you think you know what it is that brings all the boys/girls to the yard..besides your milkshake? (Shout out to Kelis)
Would you be surprised to learn what makes you attractive to other people?
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Leggs
October 10th, 2012
11:41 am
Can’t you see it’s burning I can’t control
I always that that part said “Can’t you see it’s burning ‘out of control’ “
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
11:42 am
thought that part…
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
11:54 am
S/H~ Ahh, would that I could get away… Unfortunately for me (or fortunately for my wallet) summer and upcming holidays = lots of new clients.
I won’t be breaking until I go to the Centennial celebration in January.
Bluz~ You can’t respect anyone who kisses your azz. Yes people always annoy me because I don’t want to hear my opinion in a different voice, I want your opinion if I’m asking.
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
11:54 am
@leggs, nope. but i need this in order to commit without feeling like i missed out on something. i will get a few months of being entirely on my own for the first time EVER.
might sound silly, but just a couple days ago i made my very first trip to the grocery store and walked out with TWO bags, carrying everything i need for a whole week! that was grrrreat! i’m looking forward to experiencing what it’s like to look after just me … and my furry sons, of course.
uh, big willie, why you ask?
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
11:55 am
sometimes there’s just a pull and you can’t quite put your finger on what that pull is
Like Chris Brown and Rhianna, huh?
Exiled!
October 10th, 2012
12:03 pm
Peeking in u know uall funny!
Cc went to see Bluz therapist and going me on the decks in cadinoland.
What kinda coffee uall drinking in Atlanta???
Too too funny!
Women!!??
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
12:03 pm
czB ~ I know this will be your first time on your own so was just making sure you weren’t feeling “rabbit.” You know like prisoners wanting to run….remember Cool Hand Luke (lol)?
Exiled!
October 10th, 2012
12:04 pm
Casinoland
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
12:05 pm
czB ~ I defnitely understand the grocery thing. I remember going after lil leggs left and watching the items on the conveyor belt spoke volumes of being single. I chuckled all the way to the car.
Exiled!
October 10th, 2012
12:06 pm
Czbrat?
What heepened? Lol speaking in Disco people English! Lol
U broke from ur man.
Time for blog men to pounce!
Lady~favor ain't fair! :-)
October 10th, 2012
12:06 pm
lol
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
12:10 pm
Don’t get excited, Ex. It’s not what you think.
disco
October 10th, 2012
12:13 pm
Ex – I don’t deny that my folks will butcher the heck out of the queen’s English but none of us has ever said “heepened”. lol. by the way, just the other day I laughed when this guy said “vir-gin-ja” for Virginia because my grandmother used to pronounce it that way. vir-gin-ja and hi-wi-yee. lol.
Willie Dynamite
October 10th, 2012
12:16 pm
Brat- innocent question I promise. Just saw your tag line and wondered.
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
12:16 pm
leggs, i think if i’d gone straight from raising my kids to “raising” him & his, i might have felt cheated somehow. i’ve earned the “me” time.
and no, i don’t remember cool hand luke. i think that’s a western. i don’t do westerns. LOL
Time for blog men to pounce!
eeewww. stop! y’all are like bothersome cyberbrothers to me.
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
Cool Hand Luke was not a western, Brat. One of Paul Newman’s greatest roles and if you haven’t seen it, you have some of your “me” time omework cut out for you. Definitely worth the view. I guarantee it! LOL!
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
12:27 pm
You certainly do, czB. You certainly do. It’s quite refreshing and extremely liberating.
Bluzgirl
October 10th, 2012
12:33 pm
O/T – I got the iPhone 5 delivered today finally. I don’t have access to wi-fi at work, so I gotta go out for lunch so I can activate it! I’m too impatient to wait until I get home…I wanna play with it!
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
12:36 pm
innocent question I promise.
i know. just teasing.
ok. what is this “luke” yous speak of that was, apparently, no skywalker?
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
12:41 pm
cz~
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061512/
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
12:43 pm
Leggs, I’ve never been to Sandals, but the resorts I’ve been to there have all been great.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
12:48 pm
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
12:16 pm
leggs, i think if i’d gone straight from raising my kids to “raising” him & his, i might have felt cheated somehow. i’ve earned the “me” time.
People used to say I was to picky, cause when mine left home, I wouldn’t date any with kids still at home
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
12:50 pm
Bluz, what’s an I-Phone (rotflmao)
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
12:52 pm
Bluz~ I use the iPad, but I am not a fan of the iPhone. Recently upgraded to the Galaxy III S and I LOVE it!
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
12:54 pm
Here’s another great island, and my second home
http://www3.hilton.com/en/about/hawaii50.html?WT.mc_id=zEWWAMS0US1HH2REP4gowawaii7GW841274
disco
October 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
S/H – that’s where I’m at now. not checking for kids (adult or minor) still living at home. not even checking for grandkids that spend too much time with pawpaw. lol. judge if you must.
Willie Dynamite
October 10th, 2012
12:55 pm
Random confession- I have a thing for Markina Brown.
Exiled!
October 10th, 2012
12:57 pm
WD has an innocent question
See,blog dudes are sniffing…
Sharks circling cz,watch out!
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
12:58 pm
Disco, I love my grandkids (now go back to your parents) (LOL)
Bluzgirl
October 10th, 2012
12:59 pm
I’ve thought about getting an iPad, but I just can’t justify the expense of it. I use the heck out of my phone, though!
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
1:08 pm
that’s the chance you take, single. set your own standards in order to live the life YOU want for yourself. there is great inner peace in knowing that you can be perfectly happy alone rather than settle just to “have” someone.
on the other hand, one of my mother’s verbal gems … “you pick, pick, pick til you pick sh!t.”
oh well.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
1:19 pm
“on the other hand, one of my mother’s verbal gems … “you pick, pick, pick til you pick sh!t.”
Huh??
Into the Light
October 10th, 2012
1:22 pm
Afternoon, all!
s/n: If you have laryngitis and are scheduled to participate in a conference call, either a/let your colleagues do the talking or b/reschedule. Haver mercy – I was waiting for that woman to rasp, “Have you checked the children?!?” or “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you….” any minute.
Cool Hand Luke??? LOVE IT, although it forever changed my feelings about boiled eggs.
“What we have here…is failyah….to communicate”
SlimUno
October 10th, 2012
1:23 pm
Afternooner folks,
Looks like I missed a lot so far today. Why yall can’t be this chatty catty when I’m sitting in there twirling my thumbs?
Into the Light
October 10th, 2012
1:26 pm
@disco: Your 12:13 reminds me of this radio commercial that’s running now. I couldn’t tell you who or what it’s for, but I know the guy pronounces Ponce de Leon Ave as “Pons day Lee-on”….everytime I hear it, I think, “You ain’t from around here, huh???”
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
1:32 pm
“Have you checked the children?!?” or “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you….”
now these ^ are movies i know.
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
1:32 pm
ITL~ Your 1:26 just made me think of Wilfred Brmley and his Di-a-bedes. LMAO!
Hey, Slim! The usual crew is (kinda) back so there is more chatter today. Go twiddle your thumbs and we will all shut up…
Comon Cents
October 10th, 2012
1:33 pm
ITL~ Ditto on the boiled eggs. My stomach hurt just watching that scene…
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
1:34 pm
light, i’ve heard that commercial too and i HATE it!
also, there’s one for “la parrilla” mexican restaurant. the chica in the commercial pronounces the name right throughout, then they butcher it in the jingle!
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
1:36 pm
and there’s a dealership commercial out there where the guy says “toe-da” instead of toyota.
just grrrrr!
Into the Light
October 10th, 2012
1:37 pm
LOL@cz. Her voice really creeped me out.
And of course, now I have all kinds of scary movie/book rhymes in my head. Like “Late last night and the night before…tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking at my door. Wanna go out, don’t know if I can, ‘cuz I’m so scared of the tommyknocker man.” (((((shudder)))))
LOL@CC. I have to change the channel when those commercials come on.
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:39 pm
czB ~ Cool Hand Luke is a movie (black and white at that) starring Paul Newman. He was a prisoner and tried to go rabbit (escape) to attend his mother’s funeral. It’s a very good movie. Turner Classic plays it every couple of months.
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:42 pm
disco/SH ~ I remember when I was on a dating site this one guy told me even though my child was graduating next month from h.s. and going away to college 2 months later, she was still living under my roof and he couldn’t ask me out. I could do nothing but laugh at his honesty.
czBrat ♀ ♫•*¨*•Liviiing Singllle•*¨*•♫♪
October 10th, 2012
1:43 pm
leggs, i probably avoid it based on title alone. i keep picturing a gunslinger.
light, plenty of stephen king fans in blogsville. don’t get us started.
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:50 pm
“you pick, pick, pick til you pick sh!t.”
Oh no you didn’t! I say the same thing often. Popular phrase among carribean folk.
Into the Light
October 10th, 2012
1:51 pm
@cz: Up until a few years ago, I had read everything he’d written. The two books that were the hardest for me to finish were “The Shining” – I had to stop and start that book about four times before I made it through bc it scared me so bad – and “The Stand” – everytime I would start to read that book, I’d start getting the sniffles and freak out. LOL. I have always said that King is the master of suspended disbelief. Cognitively, you know that there’s no way what he’s writing could happen, but he makes it seem so real, you think, well…..maybe……
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:51 pm
Single ~ it means one keeps picking over eligible companionship and when they finally settle down and pick a mate, they wind up with a crappy one!
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:53 pm
Cool Hand Luke??? LOVE IT, although it forever changed my feelings about boiled eggs.
Single and Happier "Life Happens!"
October 10th, 2012
1:55 pm
gotha leggs.
Leggs
October 10th, 2012
1:56 pm
Love that nut of man known as Stephen King. Loved IT and Needful Things. Shows you just what “greed” and “gossip” will do to a person.