Stella surprises a man she’s been emailing but hasn’t met and suggests an impromptu lunchAlex is one of the few men I’ve near across who wants to spend time establishing a friendship via email before meeting. Generally it’s a thing that men complain women want. I’ve seen some man-chat on the internet about it. Some commenters diagnose a need for a lot of attention. For many women,they say, online dating is a vanity project, and in which we’re trying to fetch six candidates to email us simultaneously,thereby revitalising our self esteem, without needing to depart to the bother of going to bed with any of them. (In some cases, or this argument is reverse engineered by men to explain why they can’t pull,but we’ll let that depart.)Alex, though, or wanted to wait and form a bond,as whether lunch were really sex and we shouldn’t rush into it. He’d found that waiting worked for him. Combined with the fact that he was 51 but looked 41 in his profile picture, this was kind of charming.
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Source: theguardian.com