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girlfriend trouble.

  • 16-01-2012 11:03pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭


    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Well, you've come to the right place for advice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Well, you've come to the right place for advice with no abuse, Elephant Man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Well, you've come to the right place for advice.
    Well, you've come to the right place for advice with no abuse, Elephant Man.

    GTF outta my head :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 492 ✭✭Sl!mCharles


    Well, you've come... ah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    girls are crazy, stay away from them. they is the debil


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Jesus Shaves


    GTF outta my head :eek:

    Drink loads before you go out, always a sure fire way to bring home a woman.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    I'm pretty sure it only counts as 'girlfriend trouble' if you actually have a girlfriend


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?


    Well you're on the Internet, already a bad start.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 569 ✭✭✭CoolHat


    "..faint heart never won fair lady.."

    Its true, op. Very true.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭johnr1


    Theres another guy posted here recently with a similar issue, I was just telling him about you, you should compare notes with him.....:pac:

    edit, I think he got it sorted there in the meantime......he's gone anyway.....



    .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Get a fleshlight. Problem solved.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Post this thread twice in the same forum, for maximum penetration.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    Viagra + Rophynol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Post this thread twice in the same forum, for maximum penetration.

    You could copy that and paste it in the Freudian slip thread...save you poking it again...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭supersparkz


    darokane wrote: »
    Drink loads before you go out, always a sure fire way to bring home a woman.

    Once your not fussy!!!!:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Just be yourself.



    Oh wait.... you want to attract girls?


    Eh.... sheesh...... I dunno.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Mr.Biscuits


    Sacramento wrote: »
    Post this thread twice in the same forum, for maximum penetration.

    And me thinking my post was deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Red21


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?

    Get girls or girlfriends, you do know that generally you're only aloud one girlfriend at a time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭candlegrease


    Sadly the best advice anyone can give you is to become a selfish asshole.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Red21 wrote: »
    Get girls or girlfriends, you do know that generally you're only aloud one girlfriend at a time.

    Yes, do be careful they don't hear you with each other.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭SteelyDanJalapeno


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?

    TL;DR


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Just target girls with low self-esteem and then crush them even further by treating them like a princess for about 6 weeks and then slowly withdrawing you're nice guy image replacing it with that of an utter bastard.

    She'll think it was something she did and you will be able to utterly dominate her.



    Adapted from Irvine Welsh's 'Filth'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Sadly the best advice anyone can give you is to become a selfish asshole.

    yeah, and treat her like ****. ignore her. gain muscle, get rich and you get the girls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Hi OP... forget the shyness & just walk up a girl and say... "Get sucking my throbbing cock you dirty whore".

    Women love that.

    PM Dudess for further info.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    invest in some duct tape and chloroform


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    You really have to take chance and fod of rejections, its the only way. Join clubs rather trying to click in pubs or clubs where the environment is less competitive.

    Good luck.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    Invest in a decent ladder and a really good pair of binoculars. It makes spying through their windows so much easier. They love it when guys do that. Great ice breaker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Any lookers in your local Tesco/Spar/Centra

    Wait until closing time and follow them home
    They love when that happens and will be sure to you invite you inside her place


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?

    Be. Less. Ugly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    You left out the equals sign between the words in the thread title!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Rega


    Buy a van.

    And a knife.

    Ask girls if they'd like to see your van while holding your knife.

    Surprisingly effective.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    There's a spammer that comes on here every day. He apparently has a really sexy girlfriend whom he buys sexy clothes for. You should ask him for her number.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Ya can have one of mine. Sick of most of them !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?

    stop leaving before its morning ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    First, try meeting people with similar interests to you through groups/clubs etc instead of pubs and clubs.
    You'll have something in common and an icebreaker and be able to chat in a normal, relaxed environment.

    Second: it's all about confidence. Self-confidence is one of the most attractive traits in a man for most women. It's easier said than done, but do your best to develop some self-confidence and feel good about yourself. Even acting confident can actually make you feel confident.
    But don't go too far and become arrogant: despite what you might hear, no woman worth knowing really likes a tool.
    Just try to be yourself, but be happy with yourself.

    Lastly, try your best not to think of meeting women as something frightening and difficult.
    At the end of the day, they're still people and a lot of them are great.
    Sometimes it can pay off to take a chance and talk to a girl you don't know, even if it's scary.
    You've nothing to lose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    First, try meeting people with similar interests to you through groups/clubs etc instead of pubs and clubs.
    You'll have something in common and an icebreaker and be able to chat in a normal, relaxed environment.

    Second: it's all about confidence. Self-confidence is one of the most attractive traits in a man for most women. It's easier said than done, but do your best to develop some self-confidence and feel good about it. Even acting confident can actually make you feel confident.
    But don't go too far and become arrogant: despite what you might hear, no woman worth knowing really likes a tool.
    Just try to be yourself, but be happy with yourself.

    Lastly, try your best not to think of meeting women as something frightening and difficult.
    At the end of the day, they're still people and a lot of them are great.
    Sometimes it can pay off to take a chance and talk to a girl you don't know, even if it's scary.
    You've nothing to lose.

    All great advice.

    In general you should be content in your own life, this will breed a positivity that other people will sense in you very quickly.

    Also, realise that rejection really is no big deal. When you ask a girl out, do it in a simple and honest way, no gimmicks, don't be a creep over it, and don't lose face if she says no. Smile, say okay, and walk away, and you will have nothing to feel bad or embarrassed about. Every guy should have to be rejected 10 times before he's allowed sit his leaving certificate :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭PandyAndy


    Viagra + Rophynol

    Trust me OP, that's silly advice. Mixing those two won't work, you'll only end passing out for a few hours with a boner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Red21



    Second: it's all about confidence. Self-confidence is one of the most attractive traits in a man for most women. It's easier said than done, but do your best to develop some self-confidence and feel good about it. Even acting confident can actually make you feel confident.
    But don't go too far and become arrogant: despite what you might hear, no woman worth knowing really likes a tool.
    Just try to be yourself, but be happy with yourself.
    Not trying to be as wise ass, but if someone is 26 and kinda shy in that sense, then thats just the way they are. This is no big deal i'd consider half my friends as kinda shy and they have girlfriends or are married. Developing self-confidance, the kinda self-confidance that would make a differance in a situation like that is very very uncommon and unrealistic plus you can't say in one hand "be yourself" and also say develop self-confidance, as growing in self coinfidance is a major personality change.

    Op, my advice is only useful if you drink and go out to pubs/clubs . Don't get pissed just drink in moderation and you'll be grand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    Viagra + Rophynol

    Vagina + Rohypnol


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Find one you like and ask her if you can warm your face between her boobs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭carrick79


    Get the number of a girl you fancy and send her pictures of your cock. Girls love that... :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    Red21 wrote: »
    Not trying to be as wise ass, but if someone is 26 and kinda shy in that sense, then thats just the way they are. This is no big deal i'd consider half my friends as kinda shy and they have girlfriends or are married. Developing self-confidance, the kinda self-confidance that would make a differance in a situation like that is very very uncommon and unrealistic plus you can't say in one hand "be yourself" and also say develop self-confidance, as growing in self coinfidance is a major personality change.

    Op, my advice is only useful if you drink and go out to pubs/clubs . Don't get pissed just drink in moderation and you'll be grand.

    I don't think being oneself and developing self-confidence would be mutually exclusive for the OP though, as I don't believe shyness to be an essential part of one's personality.
    Now I don't believe that his shyness should be done away with either: it can be quite endearing in moderation.
    But I do believe that shyness can be increased and decreased with changes of attitude/circumstances.
    I used to be shy when I was younger, but I came to convince myself to be more comfortable in my own skin and happy with myself. I don't walk around with a swagger now but I am quite a different person on the outside in some ways.
    I am, however, very much still me, just more at ease with myself.

    Granted, it is more difficult to gain self-confidence at age 26, but it's not impossible at all, and it's never too late.
    And he doesn't have to become 100% self-confident anyway. He could still remain somewhat shy, but more accepting of that and more at ease with himself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackdog2


    OP, sometimes in life you have to distract the spider to catch the fly.

    No point milking a bull at this stage


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    Do you dress well? If not, start. And I don't mean in a dressed-by-your-mammy kind of way, develop your own sense of style and make sure you're always freshly showered.

    Work out.

    Make lots of girl friends. Get used to female company, BUT don't eye every woman as a potential girlfriend. We can smell that a mile away.

    Smell nice.

    Work on your sense of humour.

    Work on your confidence.

    Make it your task to talk to five women every day. At work, in the supermarket, petrol station, on the street, where-ever.

    Improve your body language around women. Maintain strong eye contact, smile a lot, make physical contact etc. Google is your friend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    I guess you could say, you are 26 years old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    teednab-el wrote: »
    I'm 26 years old and find it hard to get girlfriends. Need advice on how to finally make the breakthrough. I'm slightly shy by nature and mightn't be the most sexiest. Where to start?

    from what ive been told having a tiny willy and being as much of a p**** is the best way to go about it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 969 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    Maybe think about joining a free online dating site OP. Nothing to lose anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    OP, what you have is a lack of girlfriend trouble... you should be happy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Have you considered turning gay? Gay boys always have loads of women friends and once you've a load of female friends you can talk to them about sex with women saying how you've never tried it (you are a virgin, right?) and always wondered what its like and ask if some of them would oblige you with a ride. It is only a ride your looking for and not a relationship, right???


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