Although physical attractiveness, social status, and wealth are always advantages, the great lovers of history often didn't have any of those advantages. So how could they achieve such great success with the opposite sex? Did they have some natural skill that gave them an advantage? One wise person summarized his conclusions nicely here:
"Women recognize immediately when they are in the presence of a man who likes women, who thinks they are beautiful, who makes them feel lovely, who delights in them. "A man who likes women is liked by women." (or vice versa)
Attractiveness is not the same thing as being "good looking." what matters most of all is how each person feels about being with the other person.
Before large corporations existed to sell cosmetics and other products to "improve" a woman's appearance, men still found women achingly desirable. Personally, I believe that attractiveness is not something that can be bought. Rather, it's a quality that you can develop within ...more