Five Things That Turn Off Guys
Love is never simple, but there are some subjects that many men wish you'd reserve for your girlfriends. If you're trying to win over a guy, here are the top 5 "turnoff topics:" offered from a male perspective by one male writer.
Turnoff topic 1: All the cute things your pet does.
Men consider animals as noble beasts, as partners in adventure. We find it disturbing when you address your mans best friend with. "Nipsy, wipsy. Your mommy loves you, oh, yes she does." Coddling a pet makes some men suspect that your ideal companion is completely dependent upon you for food, lets you dress him up in colorful gear, and may be castrated if he get's too frisky.
Turnoff topic 2: Your belief in alternative healing.
I was talking to a woman at a bar recently, and we were really connecting ... until she started telling me about visits to her reikii master. "She told me I had happiness stuck in my bladder." When you tell us about your experiences with aromatherapy, reflexology, or crystals, all we hear is unstable, unstable, unstable.
Turnoff topic 3: How impressed you are with how much I make.
I was out at Law Do with my best friend, who is studying to be a Solicitor. We met a girl there who stated: "Oh, my God, there are so many future lawyers here tonight. You know, in their first year out of Uni they'll make at least $119,000!"
You don't have to convince us that you're not into material possessions. But ogling a man's paycheck -- ours or somebody else's -- makes us feel like you're attaching our worth to our wallets.
Turnoff topic 4: Aww Just Shaddap.
When confronted by natural beauty, men prefer to contemplate it in silence. Women, for some reason, feel compelled to talk at just the moment we would enjoy quiet. I spent a week on an island with a group that included four women who never met a sunset they couldn't ruin. ("That pink is so deep. I think it's, like, the deepest pink I've ever seen.") They failed to get the joke when my friends and I tried to give them a taste of their own medicine: "Look at that water! It's just, like, so wet."
Turnoff topic 5: Who your favorite celebrities are dating.
Demi and Bruce break up/make up; Oprah gains/loses 20 pounds. We don't care. Pamela Lee opens her mouth real wide and accommodates all of Tommy's manhood? Okay, we care. As a rule of thumb, unless they're naked, we don't want to know. Men have far too hard a time keeping up with their own relationships; the last thing we want is the responsibility of keeping up with the lives of people we'll never meet.
Hmmm! I wonder if this beau ever found his Miss Right :)
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