I love Mark Darcy
I wazzzz here
All right, I'll ask: who is mark darcy?
Relax... I'll need some information first. Just the basic facts - can you show me where it hurts?
Graham, Graham, Graham,
You say you consider yourself a gentleman but I consider you pretty rude.
Consider this, any woman worth your time would know exactly how she wants a man to treat her. That's her filtering system. That's how she finds the gentleman of her choice, by how he treats her. Just because she knows how she wants a man to treat her doesn't mean that she won't also shower her man with love, affection and respect.
If you assume that she's selfish because she knows what she wants you're going to pass up some relationships that could probably be pretty good to you.
On the other hand, if you want a stepford girlfriend who will allow men to treat her any which kind of way... more power to you.
My husband actually fits the 'English Gentleman' stereotype, pretty well. I find my 'ladywife' role a bit more challenging, but I try.
I've always believed a gentleman is one whose internal values are congruent with how he actually chooses to live. So, I suppose this fits a buddhist monk as well as an english gentleman, but that's okay.
I tend to think of myself as a gentleman...I do all the stuff that has been listed I get the doors and give the jacket and all that good stuff...I generally just think of it as being a good guy though...I treat everybody with respect and always use my manners. I think more people should use their manners. Please and thank you go along way even when they are not required...use them anyways.
If a lady drops something, stop and pick it up for her...it doesn't take that long. Cook for her and do the dishes after dinner. Listen to her stupid ****ing stories about what bitch said what to the other bitch at work and you don't really care and you just want to scream "oh my god why do you talk so much"...but listen anyways and don't say that.
The problem only comes around every once in a while when I don't always want to be a gentleman and I get urges to do things like stick my hand up her skirt and find a warm spot...in the grocery store....in my defense she was bent over and I'm me....you can't expect me to pass that up....she liked it though cause she is a freak so it worked out.
So I think I've struck a good balance.
^^ Ha! sounds like a balance to me! i want half gentleman and half not so gentleman! i think thats what ive got.
I like being a passive aggressive gentlemen sometimes.
You know... the girl who reckons she's it and a bit strolls up to the door while nearly flooding you with her ego.
So you hold the door open and she ignores the gesture, passes through, which is great because you're operating purely on your upbringing aspect and don't require thanks.
But you hold the same door open for everyone else in near vicinity behind her (within 50 feet)... the old ladies, the burly lumberjack types, the kids, the teens, the social misfit looking types, the tattooed fellows who'd look more at home in a bar fight versus a shopping mall.
You make no distinctions according to position in life or looks.
It brightens their day and thoroughly ruins hers.
People are like onions...
^^^I wouldn't...you shouldn't get a parade for doing it...its just what you do...she doesn't have to jump up and down and proclaim her desire to have your babies....a gentleman does things like that without any recognition just for the sake of it being the right thing to do.