Hopeless
romantics, love addicts, serial lovers — call them what you
want, but some people are always focused on being in love and
building intimate relationships. Is that such a bad thing?
Well, for those of us who seek intimacy and romance, it can
sometimes be a full-time job. It can also lead to those
stories that you may not be so proud to share.
The aggressive approach
Take my friend Nadia, so obsessed with the twenty-five year
old superintendent in her apartment building that she would
intentionally not deal with some minor repair and call him up
for help. "I'm thirty-three years old," she confided
over coffee one day," and I'm leading this guy on like
I'm Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate."
Nadia tried everything. One day, when the super arrived at
her door, she answered in full make-up, heels and a kimono
that showed plenty of leg and cleavage. She held his legs when
he was up on the ladder —supposedly for balance — and
offered him a beer.
"Wimbledon was on," she said, "so I offered
him a beer and thought he might take in a match or two."
He declined, saying he wasn't a sports fan and reminding
her that he was working. This went on for weeks, until one
evening they ran into each other in the foyer. Nadia had been
out with friends and had a few drinks.
"I told him that I'd like him to come up to my
apartment for a nightcap, and he told me he wasn't interested.
I felt like a real geek." Your
match is on Match.com