{"id":20,"date":"2006-04-10T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/2006\/04\/10\/what-is-attraction\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T02:57:06","slug":"what-is-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/2006\/04\/10\/what-is-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Attraction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most women, I always thought that becoming more attractive to men was about improving my appearance.&nbsp; As a teenager I was desperate to lose weight, get the perfect haircut, and wear the styles in the latest magazines.&nbsp; I wanted boys to pay attention to me, and I knew that the girls to whom they DID pay attention had obvious physical assets.&nbsp; It wasn&#39;t about being smart or interesting or nice: it was about looks.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#39;t know then is that most boys grow up.&nbsp; The hormone-driven stage of youth, made anxious by popularity and social validation, creates entirely different creatures than the mature workplace of later years.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for women, most men seek entirely different characteristics than boys.&nbsp; They learn to appreciate emotional warmth, depth, and generous loving.&nbsp; Although they still turn their heads to watch beautiful women pass, they&#39;re mature enough to appreciate a beautiful form without having to possess it.<\/p>\n<p>Not all men grow up, of course. \ud83d\ude09&nbsp; We all know playboys at the age of 40 who haven&#39;t yet learned the pleasure of settling down with one woman.&nbsp;&nbsp; Those men still tend to be attracted to looks, seeking out what is new, different, and unobtainable.<\/p>\n<p>Yet instead of realizing that immature men are the exception, not the rule, many of us women remain stuck in the high school mentality, believing that ALL men<span>&mdash;<\/span>not just the immature ones<span>&mdash;seek nothing more than a pretty face.<\/span>&nbsp; We believe that we must dress sexy, look sexy, and act sexy for men to feel attracted to us.&nbsp; And when our bodies rebel (as not all of us were made to look like models) we bury our heads in despair.&nbsp; We think that we&#39;ll never be able to attract men.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what?&nbsp; The good news is that although you may be unable to attract immature men (who are focused on superficial appearances above all things) you may be just what a mature man is looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Mature men seek women who are fun to be with, around whom they feel they can be themselves.&nbsp; The mature man realizes that if he is going to spend the rest of his life with a woman, he needs to have more discerning criteria than good looks.&nbsp; A woman who is in touch with her body, even though it isn&#39;t perfect, is preferable to a woman who goes into hysterics if her hair or clothes aren&#39;t perfect.&nbsp; A woman who is uninhibited, passionate, and loves life is preferable to an aloof, cool woman who lives life on display.<\/p>\n<p>For the man who looks beneath the surface, a woman is an entire package: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.&nbsp; He must fall in love with all of those parts before he&#39;ll invite her to spend a lifetime with him.&nbsp; What this means for us is that developing ourselves mentally, spiritually, and emotionally is just as important as perfecting our appearance.&nbsp; What we look like is just a quarter of the entire package.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, if you start focusing on developing yourself spiritually, mentally, and emotionally, you&#39;ll find that you reap enormous personal benefits.&nbsp; Your life will be happier.&nbsp; You&#39;ll feel more content.&nbsp; You may even find that male attention seems less important to you.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time that you feel overlooked because of your appearance, or you&#39;re having an &quot;ugly&quot; day, just put on your most beautiful smile and realize that the only men who&#39;ll be ignoring you are the ones you don&#39;t want anyway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most women, I always thought that becoming more attractive to men was about improving my appearance.&nbsp; As a teenager I was desperate to lose weight, get the perfect haircut, and wear the styles in the latest magazines.&nbsp; I wanted boys to pay attention to me, and I knew that the girls to whom they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,17,16,22,15],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attract-men","tag-attracting-men","tag-beauty","tag-become-irresistible-to-men","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/tomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}