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So in return for being "liked" by that woman, the listener had to pretend to be interested in her talk entirely about herself for half an hour? Where she wasn't
by aryehof 10y ago
So in return for being "liked" by that woman, the listener had to pretend to be interested in her talk entirely about herself for half an hour? Where she wasn't interested enough to even ask the listeners name?
Sounds like a way to raise her self-esteem at the expense of yours.
- tutufan 10y agoReminds me of Seinfeld's quip about dating being a "whole lot of seeming fascinated"...
- thirdsun 10y ago> So in return for being "liked" by that woman, the listener had to pretend to be interested in her talk entirely about herself for half an hour? If the intention was indeed to get the other person to tell something about themselves I'd say it's a fair and successful approach. Plus, you could be genuinely interested in the other person's 30 minute talk. The idea that the interest has to be fake seems to be your conclusion.
- watwut 10y agoI would guess that she was likely to be lonely. Lonely people tend to react that way - show a bit of interest and they can talk for hours. If you have good friends or family around, you already said all of that to them at one point or another - there will be no unburdening. Alternatively she might be female equivalent of an obsessive geek. The constantly touching thing sounds like one of those awkward uncomfortable things. In any case, she did not said he is the only person in the world she likes nor that this is the only way for someone to make her like him. She just said that she liked him.
- nilram 10y agoStill, it sounds like the paybacks for him were "She kept touching me as she talked. I forgave her for that." and, the knowledge that "I didn’t reveal a single detail about myself, including my name." Amusing.