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Women! I’d like you to please note the male mind in action. He may like this girl. He may not. At the very least, he’s a nice guy. She said she was cold. He made a fire for her.
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That’s a man who solves problems instead of playing games.
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we call such people adults
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Dear stranger, I thank you for the lolz. You restored some Internet faith in this old fart.
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As my wife continues to remind me, she doesn’t want it solved, she wants comfort. Unless she does want it solved and I do nothing and get told off for not fixing it.
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What could be more comfortable than sitting by a fire? lol
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Sitting IN the fire! Warm for life and all that.
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My husband will ask “do you want suggestions or are you just venting?” and it was like a genuis communication hack for us. I almost never want suggestions lol
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Yeah I’ve started to employ that
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I have tried that before and was told I was being insensitive. Even when I phrased it as “That sucks that . Keep going, and tell me if I can help with solutions, or if you’ve got it but need someone to know how much bullshit you have to put up with.” So I went back to (badly) trying to intuit whether it was a request for proactive help, or just being the pro bono therapist.
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Understanding the need to ask that question, and listening to the answer, is a long term relationship requirement.
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this is funny lol
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And there’s literally no way to tell the difference because the signals are identical and she will absolutely *refuse* to say what she wants outright. So, no matter what you do, you lose; she’s going to yell at you either way.
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Then she should ask for comfort, not present a problem and look at him to fix it.
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women are confusing
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I can’t control the weather, Jackie!
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Ding ding ding! The “trying to find a way to get him to make a move” is the big hint here. Girl, you can just make the move yourself!
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Well, she basically sat in his lap. That’s making a move.
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I’m flabbergasted she didn’t pick up on the super obvious hint that he liked her – he spent an hour building her a giant fire!! Women can be really dense to social cues sometimes, i tell you.
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Good thing she didn’t say something like “I wish I was here yesterday.” He could have spent years trying to build a time machine.
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At least when he was done he could go back in time and give himself the blueprints to save himself some time.
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Maybe he did, in a different timeline, basically an alternate reality. But he will never have gotten that blueprint.
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Tbh, I’d spend an hour making a giant fire for someone I didn’t like. Messing around with fire is its own reward.
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Wasn’t that how men proposed back in the caveman days?
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Grug have fire, many bone tools, much meat from the hunt. You would make a fine wife for Grug.
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Give Grug many children
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r/fourthworldproblems
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I always read these stories and remember when girls would obviously come onto me and I just *wasn’t inerested* so I’d pretend not to notice.
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Lol I would pretend not to notice but was VERY interested
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Oh the duality of man!
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I wouldn’t notice, but was VERY interested
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Oh the triality of man
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Right? Guys hit on women all the time. Sometimes the women respond. Often they don’t. Not responding could mean they’re not interested, or didn’t notice, or just didn’t know how to respond or didn’t feel like it or wanted to see if he’d continue or any number of other things. But when women hit on men, it’s a *hint* and the guy is dumb if he doesn’t immediately pick up on it and invite her whatever activity she was hoping for.
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A real man would set her on fire. Build a girl a fire, keep her warm for a few days. Set her on fire, keep her warm for the rest of her life.
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You win the internets for the day! Congrats!
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And how did both of them fit on a lawn chair? They seat one. Or am I missing something? Also, how is that a hint? I have been around flirty girls and who do this and they want nothing to do with me. You know to make a move? Sit next to him and put your hand on his thigh. No man will confuse that.
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I’m guessing she was in his lap
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I was picturing more of a sun lounger, those lie down chairs. But sat up sideways on it, sidr by side kind of like a bench
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We also don’t want to come off as a molester or a rapist at any rate so I’m taking the first immediate ticket out of that chair. Checkmate, saboteurs. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go touch grass.
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Contrast with this woman’s mind: likes a guy, proceeds to complain.
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For real, I just thought, “he’s action oriented.”
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This is what men think of when we hear “nice guys”. This was a genuinely kind gesture. Most women would friend zone this type of behavior, not reward it.
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also – if you like a guy you can always …. gasp….. make a move! Men have been getting trained to not make a move for years now.
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“Man make fire” is how homo sapiens exist.
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Fire > Flirting
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Man make fire for Lady
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Tale as old as time
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