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User Info Family Part 2; entered at 2017-06-11 19:56:07
Naomi
Posts: 12
Registered: 2017-05-27 Dallas Texas
What would I have said if a girl friend or worse, a teen age boy, had asked me if I thought they are attractive?

First no a single person in my entire life has ever asked me that question. Not my (half)brother, not my cousins, none of my friends at school or later, none of my coworkers who more often than not were also my friends. I am sure I never asked that to anyone, except once to my boyfriend, in grad school. But that was more a curiosity question, after having noticed that the guys at lunch time, as they sat outside, were having fun "grading" girls passing by (so in fact I did not use the word attractive exactly). And I guess if there is a case where if you cared about the answer you would mostly read between the lines, that would be it.

So why did no one around me ever asked that question? probably because they thought they were, or most likely because it did not come to mind for them because I was their friend and so they just knew I found them attractive each in their own way, in their eyes, their minds, their smiles. Sure some of them were quite beautiful, but that is really besides the point.

There may be something to the meaning of attractive though. For example I am very attractive to dogs. I have been all my life. There is a spontaneous connection, some of my friends' dogs even know my name, their owners stating that the dog does not do that with anyone else (and no, I do not feed them anything). I think they just sense how I love animals.

Perhaps your brother just needed to feel you were there for him, on his side unconditionally. That he was fun and interesting and that there was nowhere else you would rather be.
2017-06-11 19:56:07