All a girl wants..
A friend forwarded this interesting article for me.. I find it interesting.. Something to ponder..
All a girl wants is to win in the game of relationships and dating.
What's that all about, anyway, this ding-donging back and forth between our feelings and their feelings, our actions and their reactions - this need to feel like the ball's back in our court again in the relationship game?
There are 2 distinct camps of people on this subjct matter.
There are the ones who think we should do away entirely with playing games and advocate honesty as being the best policy.
The other group like, and thrive on, playing games.
Some in this latter group take it so far as to see the thrill of "playing chase" as being more fun than actually achieving your objective.
Most, though, acknowledge that a certain degree of power play and mind guessing is needed in a relationship to keep it at a healthy level and prevent either party from getting too complacent.I'm declined to agree that we need to play games. I don't mean we should all start scheming ways of getting men into our lair and manipulating them (though that does sound like fun), only that we need to keep ahead of ourselves.
You've got to be a sport and play a good game so that both you and your opponent enjoy yourselves and leave feeling re-energised and raring to go. Playing games isn't about deception but about understanding the subtleties of what makes your opposite number tick, so that it keeps the adrenaline going.
It's bit of a balancing act that requires you to negotiate the line between being too available and being too interested. Tipping either side of the scale will probably end up making the other party bored, irritated or both.
Being too keen, too soon, before any dating bells have even begun to sound, kills the excitement. You know the sort - the boys who will always answer your SMS within the minute, ring intermittenly throughout the day to check if you've eaten, always have good-boy manners and answer all your questions straight up.
These boys are not playing the game, and having the ball in your court all the time starts to feel a bit pointless after a while.
On the other hand, playing too hard to get can result in the other person just throwing up their hands in exasperation and moving on. When you finally decide you're going to play fair, it'll probably be too little, too late, and you just end up looking fickel, or like a player.
Remember, the mind games aren't about making life difficult for the other person, but to hold your own ground. Being too available too soon signals a sort of desperation and loneliness, but more than that it reveals that you're too willing to give your personal power away to someone else.
That someone else may possibly step all over you as a result.
Are games a waste of time? There will be always be those who think that being straightforward is the best way forward. In my younger, more naive days, I used to think so too, but it just doesn't work. Sometimes you lose out from being too honest - truthfulness often comes across as too aggressive or insensitive, or it turns you into a "yes man", all too willing to nod along with the other party. Either way, it's a turn off.
And, by the way, the perimeters of the playing field don't just dissolve into a white picket fence once you've got the guy (or girl) and are living happily-ever-after in the relam of relationship.
Game-playing continues well into a steady relationship - not in terms of deception or cheating, but of making sure you keep back something for yourself, hold on to a few playing cards that could be useful in future.
It's about preventing either one of you from becoming too complacent or forgetting what made you value that person in the first place. Playing a game in a relationship allows you to hold on to your own identity and your own person.
It means staying flirty, adventurous and outspoken as you were before. And it keeps the other person in line, for they know they can lose you if they start to get too comfortable and neglect you.
Winning the dating/relationship game isn't ever about how much you can mess up the other person's head. To gain the upper hand in the game is to stop yourself from messing with your own head, which we know is more than likely to happen in any relatioship.
To win the game is to stay the same person you were before and during the whole big, messy, but totally exciting, dating adventure.
x@Beverley@x
All a girl wants is to win in the game of relationships and dating.
What's that all about, anyway, this ding-donging back and forth between our feelings and their feelings, our actions and their reactions - this need to feel like the ball's back in our court again in the relationship game?
There are 2 distinct camps of people on this subjct matter.
There are the ones who think we should do away entirely with playing games and advocate honesty as being the best policy.
The other group like, and thrive on, playing games.
Some in this latter group take it so far as to see the thrill of "playing chase" as being more fun than actually achieving your objective.
Most, though, acknowledge that a certain degree of power play and mind guessing is needed in a relationship to keep it at a healthy level and prevent either party from getting too complacent.I'm declined to agree that we need to play games. I don't mean we should all start scheming ways of getting men into our lair and manipulating them (though that does sound like fun), only that we need to keep ahead of ourselves.
You've got to be a sport and play a good game so that both you and your opponent enjoy yourselves and leave feeling re-energised and raring to go. Playing games isn't about deception but about understanding the subtleties of what makes your opposite number tick, so that it keeps the adrenaline going.
It's bit of a balancing act that requires you to negotiate the line between being too available and being too interested. Tipping either side of the scale will probably end up making the other party bored, irritated or both.
Being too keen, too soon, before any dating bells have even begun to sound, kills the excitement. You know the sort - the boys who will always answer your SMS within the minute, ring intermittenly throughout the day to check if you've eaten, always have good-boy manners and answer all your questions straight up.
These boys are not playing the game, and having the ball in your court all the time starts to feel a bit pointless after a while.
On the other hand, playing too hard to get can result in the other person just throwing up their hands in exasperation and moving on. When you finally decide you're going to play fair, it'll probably be too little, too late, and you just end up looking fickel, or like a player.
Remember, the mind games aren't about making life difficult for the other person, but to hold your own ground. Being too available too soon signals a sort of desperation and loneliness, but more than that it reveals that you're too willing to give your personal power away to someone else.
That someone else may possibly step all over you as a result.
Are games a waste of time? There will be always be those who think that being straightforward is the best way forward. In my younger, more naive days, I used to think so too, but it just doesn't work. Sometimes you lose out from being too honest - truthfulness often comes across as too aggressive or insensitive, or it turns you into a "yes man", all too willing to nod along with the other party. Either way, it's a turn off.
And, by the way, the perimeters of the playing field don't just dissolve into a white picket fence once you've got the guy (or girl) and are living happily-ever-after in the relam of relationship.
Game-playing continues well into a steady relationship - not in terms of deception or cheating, but of making sure you keep back something for yourself, hold on to a few playing cards that could be useful in future.
It's about preventing either one of you from becoming too complacent or forgetting what made you value that person in the first place. Playing a game in a relationship allows you to hold on to your own identity and your own person.
It means staying flirty, adventurous and outspoken as you were before. And it keeps the other person in line, for they know they can lose you if they start to get too comfortable and neglect you.
Winning the dating/relationship game isn't ever about how much you can mess up the other person's head. To gain the upper hand in the game is to stop yourself from messing with your own head, which we know is more than likely to happen in any relatioship.
To win the game is to stay the same person you were before and during the whole big, messy, but totally exciting, dating adventure.
x@Beverley@x
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