The Manly Arts!

[Toadstool]

On the last day of Winter buy some flowers in the afternoon and keep them somewhere safe overnight. I keep them in the garage. Set your alarm 30 minutes earlier in the morning. Wash your face and eat at least a piece of bread yourself, to get rid of your morning breath without having an obvious toothpaste smell. Make your lady her morning beverage and some breakfast, and present this along with the flowers as a romantic gesture for the first day of Spring.

That is randomly romantic... Gils love that. That's a great piece of advice.

[Toadstool]

Toadstool Tip 7

Learn to tell her NO.
Do not treat your woman like the Goddess Athena incarnate. She will get bored of you.
Instead, present yourself as a challenge for her: Tell her no on as many things as you can. ... and then do them later on your own time.

Example:
Girl: "I want those chocolates so much! Can you buy them for me?"
You: "No."
Then, when she doesn't expect it a day or so later, surprise her with chocolates.

Or, if she asks you to kiss her, tell her No. You're too busy enjoying looking at her.
Or, if she says to make love to her, tell her no. You're too busy kissing her.
Stuff like that.

[Pirate]

Don't manipulate her or anyone else.
If you feel like buying her chocolates, buy the chocolates. If you don't, don't.

[mrmark]

I tend to make sure when we go out that she is on the inside away from traffic,always open the car door for her to get in and out and i always sleep nearest the door.Always tell her how beatiful she is and that she means the world to me and if she ever wants to talk about anything however big or small she thinks it is i will be there for her no matter what.

[Toadstool]

Don't manipulate her or anyone else.
If you feel like buying her chocolates, buy the chocolates. If you don't, don't.

The idea is that you're doing it on your own time, not because she told you to.
It's not manipulation. It's being in control.

[Pirate]

I agree with being in control of yourself but trying to control her, or anyone else, is manipulation.

[Batwoman]

Toadstool Tip 7

Learn to tell her NO.
Do not treat your woman like the Goddess Athena incarnate. She will get bored of you.
Instead, present yourself as a challenge for her: Tell her no on as many things as you can. ... and then do them later on your own time.

Example:
Girl: "I want those chocolates so much! Can you buy them for me?"
You: "No."
Then, when she doesn't expect it a day or so later, surprise her with chocolates.

Or, if she asks you to kiss her, tell her No. You're too busy enjoying looking at her.
Or, if she says to make love to her, tell her no. You're too busy kissing her.
Stuff like that.

I don't like this kind of stuff at all. It is game playing and juvenile.
I agree with Pirate: intentional manipulation is not a way to treat a lady.

[TheSnitch]

Toadstool Tip 7

Learn to tell her NO.
Do not treat your woman like the Goddess Athena incarnate. She will get bored of you.
Instead, present yourself as a challenge for her: Tell her no on as many things as you can. ... and then do them later on your own time.

Example:
Girl: "I want those chocolates so much! Can you buy them for me?"
You: "No."
Then, when she doesn't expect it a day or so later, surprise her with chocolates.

Or, if she asks you to kiss her, tell her No. You're too busy enjoying looking at her.
Or, if she says to make love to her, tell her no. You're too busy kissing her.
Stuff like that.

Do whatever works for you I say. In the same vein everyone is different, so some girls will find this attracting or appealing in some way, in which case it works for you. While others will find it detracting and rude, in which case it won't work for you.

Now I will say, I do like the idea of listening to what your girl wants and getting it for her at a later date as a surprise.

[Toadstool]

I don't like this kind of stuff at all. It is game playing and juvenile.
I agree with Pirate: intentional manipulation is not a way to treat a lady.

It's not juvenile. You're using the wrong word to describe this.

It's fun. It's teasing her. It's playing a game of build up.
Suspense... or, ... what have you.

It's not juvenile, or childish. It's meant to be fun.

And yea, some girls don't like this. Some girls also don't like you to pay for her meal, or to hold a door open, or to give them flowers.

As a general rule, I try to be as in control and as playful about it as I humanly can.
It's not to say that you tell her when she can or cannot go out with friends. But when she's with you, do some of the thinking for her. Women like this.

[dsmall]

Crap I've learned the hard way:

If a women leaves something at the bottom of the stairs (laundry basket, shoes, etc), that means that you should pick it up and take it upstairs to where they belong. (Taking it to the top of the steps is a half credit, but it is a bit juvenile; walking past it 20 times is bound to piss her off).

Keep your bathroom spotlessly clean. Nothing grosses a good women out more than a messy gross bathroom. It's a deal breaker for most. You can get away with clutter in other rooms, and you don't have keep your place like a high tech clean room, but the bathroom has to be free of pubes, hair, toothpaste, grime, piss and crap stains in the can. It should smell clean and look clean. Women have a sense of smell almost twice as sensitive as ours to funky bathroom smell.

If your women cleans something up; notice, and say thanks. Next time you see the same area is messy, clean it up.

When you are in the kitchen, use the same rules as when you are in your workshop: clean as you go. There is nothing romantic about a nice meal served 10 feet from a kitchen that looks like a bomb went off.

Learn how to run and load your dishwasher. Leaving dirty crap in the sink doesn't get you any credit.

Every day, take 5 minutes to scan your house and think, "if I were a neat fastidious chick with raging hormones, is there anything around her that would piss me off?" and then take care of it. Remember, even if you are a metro sexual or neat freak, you are only going to see about half of the stuff that she sees.

When your woman is speaking to you about something you don't even remotely find interesting, listen because there will be a test. Invariably, she will ask you something later; or worse, you will ask her something later, that will reveal that you were just looking at her, ignoring her, and just praying that she stopped talking soon enough that you could go back to thinking about what you wanted to think about.

Here are the general rules:

If you treat your woman like your mom and act like a little boy, you will eventually get laid about as often as you did from your mom when you were a little boy.

Foreplay starts well before the bedroom. It starts by putting the toilet seat down and rinsing out your sink in the morning, cleaning up after yourself at breakfast, listening to what she is saying, cleaning up your own messes, doing your own share around the house, and not watching TV until 11:00.