Sort Yourself Out, Do You Really Need An RW?

[jb]

Here is a list of personal traits that will give you trouble if you are in the market for an RW.

   1. You use more than three words when ordering your Starbuck's,
   2. You're still into rollerblading,
   3. You put on cologne to go to the gym,
   4. You have an Armani Exchange or Banana Republic credit card in your wallet,
   5. You Tivo "Sex in the City" and/or "Will and Grace",
   6. You watch "Friends" with a note pad,
   7. You have panic attacks: (look, either have a real heart attack or cut the crap. That feeling you're feeling is not death; it's called responsibility and most everybody feels it. So … suck it up, drink a Guinness and get a life),
   8. You shave any part of your body except your face.
   9. You buy your shampoo at a salon instead of a grocery store,
  10. You take more than two, that's two, minutes to fix your hair,
  11. You think Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, and Orlando Bloom are really, really good actors,
  12. You think you have a feminine side you need to get in touch with, and/or
  13. You must have Evian and only Evian for hydration (Hey, thongmeister. What's Evian spelled backwards? That's what you are).

[Bruno]

 8. You shave any part of your body except your face.

It was true for my first meeting with Galina... she don't like facial hair... but for the second meeting, she have ask for i keep my beard ( too late, i have already shave it at the end of winter )... and why ? Simple, by jealousy... during the first meeting, a good girlfriend of her have try to make me some charm... and for the second meeting, she will not anymore that i meet all her girlfriend... :?

 

[Son of Clyde]

No joke, I used to have panic attacks when I was in my 20's and I got treatment.

Not a very pleasant thing to go through.

I do get frustrated that this process takes so damn long.

Sometimes I have a short outburst like when I thought my kitten had destroyed her visa pictures and I forgot I had already hidden them from the kitten.

People can behave strangely when going through the visa process and things go awry.

I may seem like Mister nice guy but I know some creative 4 letter words.

[jb]

clyde, et al.,

This was a tiny attempt at humor.

However, if you see yourself in any of this......

[Todd]

Very funny....I especially liked "thongmeister"; I'm going to have to use that as an insult sometime.

Todd

[Cold Warrior]

That's a very good description of a Metrosexual.

[Journeyman]

Agreed.

As hyper-feminine as many FSU ladies can be, they also want their man to be just the opposite.  Not abusive, but very resolute, and as the RW say, a "real man."

Understand their culture -- a culture of extremes.  Almost always too much, or too little, of nearly everything.  This is what RW are used to, and you can't change this aspect of them.  

For example, if you are more Niles Crane than Rhett Butler, you will have your work cut out for you with Russian gals.  

Has any other thread on this board discussed the perils of being too much of a "nice guy" with FSU women?  If not, the novices here would benefit from a few words of wisdom on this point.

Journeyman  

[Turboguy]

I don't think there has been much of a discussion of being too much of a nice guy.  I agree with you on that.    There was one post somewhere in which someone said they wanted to treat their woman as a partner and have them be basically an equal and I believe I said something about his thoughts would turn off a lot of FSU ladies.   That they tend to want a man to be strong, to make the decsions and to be in control.   

I myself have a hard time with this because I am more of a basic 50-50 type guy but I have learned to keep my mouth shut on this subject with the ladies and try my best to try and be a little more decisive.   In reality I am not sure that they don't like to give the control and then use there femine ways to manuver things to the point where they are really more in control than they would admit.   This probably could make an interesting topic all on it's own. 

[jb]

As the RW like to say, "the man is the head, but the woman is the neck".   If you make a decision about the family, you'd better have covered yourself in some kind of conversation beforehand.  If you run an ordinary sort of household this would include finances.  

[Son of Clyde]

Actually it can work both ways.

 They may have their work cut out with us.

I agree for the most part that the guy has to make the most adjustment.

I will stand up for what I believe in but if it is petty, and will not affect anything, I can just as easily ignore it and learn to cope.

In the full scope of things, a few quirky habits I can deal with, I have some of my own.

[Maxx]

As the RW like to say, "the man is the head, but the woman is the neck". If you make a decision about the family, you'd better have covered yourself in some kind of conversation beforehand. If you run an ordinary sort of household this would include finances.

 

As Woody Allen said in a movie role to his son when asked who was the boss in the family "I am the boss. Mommy is just the decision maker. I get to hold the remote control."

Maxx