Romance... is it overrated?

Okay so most girls... (I said MOST) are romantics at heart. A lot of girls dig being swept off our feet, being treated like "women", doors opened, chairs pulled out, helped with our coats, flowers on special occasions, or maybe for no reason at all - etc. But when it comes to romance, for the most part, so many guys seem to have missed that boat.

Why do you think girls are bigger romantics than guys?

Is romance important to you?

Romance is very important to me- and if you think I'm full of shit, remember that I'm posting to this thread right in the middle of my database class, which I'm DANGEROUSLY close to flunking.

OUCH.

i am very romantic at heart i love moonlit walks and candlelit dinners yep i am a mushy sort

Let's just say that I'm VERY romantically-minded. Candles, dinner I made from scratch, the perfect music... I could go on.

that is SO sweet satan!

I think there would be some serious mudwrestling with some of the SG ladies over Big Daddy if I were single.

aww dammit you replied to soon, the sarcasm is lost.

anyway it depends on my mood if i want romance. i think i only want it when my boyfriends a dick and refuses for months and months and months and months to do even the most remotley romantic thing. other than that sometimes i dont want it. i dont want fakey romance stuff. bring me flowers if im sick, i dont care if theyre cheap ones. its sweet. thats romance.

What can I say? I just enjoy the whole ride of romance.

For my last girlfriend, I made her tiramisu from SCRATCH, because she mentioned to me once that it was her favorite dessert. Four days later, she dumped me.

She loved it, though.

I've dated alot of young women around their early 20's who didn't like all of the usuall romance stuff. Some even seemed to find it offensive. I've lost relationships because I've opened the door for women before, like it's insulting to their feminine strength, or something. Flowers seem, on the whole, to no longer be accepted as romantic currency any longer. Everyone wants "originality". So now you have to sit and think," what's something original that I can do that won't be lame, that will hold her interest, and will respect her femininity?" Time to draw up some romantic bar graphs, plot something beautiful that seems sponatneous, so that you can hope to do something half as inspiring as anything John Cusac has EVER done in a movie before! now what I wanna know is, since women seem to consider themselves such romantic's, when is it that a woman is going to go through even a quarter of that amount of trouble to please a man? Mabye I want some spontineity, for a change.

it's only overrated if you don't have it.

There's nothing quite like acting like a HUGE dork over someone you're crazy about.

i like it a lot more than im willing to admit

ive BEEN on dates with you dude, and youre such a liar. he doesn't fully understand what a candle is, and was pronouncing the word wrong for years. the "dinner from scratch" is bacon. microwaved. and the perfect music is him changing the channel to wrestling and then falling asleep. the only thing you know how to do is BREAK MY HEART!

I've always wanted to spring into a musical number for a girl, ala moulan rouge or something like that. Alas, I don't have a band to follow me around everywhere.

i have the mutant power to make anything un-romantic

her: "i love staring into your eyes while you make love to me"
me: "can i take you doggie so i can rest my beer on your back?"

it's as easy as that...

but seriously... i am really a romantic, it's just that i can't stay serious for long.. so i'm more like a matthew perry romantic comedy

only skippy from robin hood thinks romance is sissy stuff

"you kissed a girl? that is sooooo gay"

my hunny is so romantic. i feel like shit because i don't really think i am.... he deserves so much better. he is one of the most romantic, sweetest and thoughtful people i have ever met in my life.

The problem is that romance for men and women is different. Romance is, basicaly, the expression of love and or appreciation. Men don't want flowers. Men don't want a "lovely night out". We want to feel important. We want to feel valued. We want to feel as though we really matter in our significant other's lives. That is romance for man. Nothing really related to material things but the simple feeling of being appreciated and wanted. We want to feel special. Men, by instinct, are providers. If we feel that our "providing" is not wanted, we will feel unwanted.

But hey, thats me anyways!

Well I'm finding it harder
to be a gentleman every day
all the manner that I've been taught
have slowly died away
but if I held the door open for you
It wouldn't make your day

because so many females just walk past the guy holding the door and go for the guy staring at their boobs... its easier to just give up

But what is sincere? Shouldn't essentially any action you commit yourself to in wanting to please another person be labled as sincere? Some people, I think especially men, want to express themselves romantically but don't know how. I also think the standards of what's romantic have changed. In that way, it's even more difficult. I may feel something in my heart that's difficult for me to express, and I don't feel quite comfortable singing on the rooftops like Ewan McGregor, but as a guy you still look to other people's examples, even to movies, hoping to be inspired. What ever happened to and A for effort?

is that the line? i always thought the line was it would make your day, or wouldnt it make your day. huh! i'll be damned!!!!!!
and oh yeah, i kinda like romance. i like it when my boy refers to me as his lady over the phone, i.e. "no zak i cant hang out tonight, i'm with my lady" hehehe. lady and gentleman are underused words.

I've never met a girl who's a bigger romantic than me.

And I'm really being serious guys! I swear!