LVM Giving Attention to LVW Over You (Mix of stuff learned from this subreddit & what I've picked up on my own)
Maybe this has already been posted here, and if not allowed, please let me know.
I work in a predominantly male career. Throughout my short tenure, I have ALREADY seen other females in my profession make a mockery of the rest of us by acting like lovesick puppies/desperados. I'm not writing this to bash them, though, because I get it. Attention is nice (most of the time).
But it's attention from LVM!
I'm going to be real honest real quick, there are times when I would (and still sometimes do 🥴) think, "Why am I not getting that kind of attention from guys? Am I not pretty enough?"
But then I come to realize... "I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun." (Jk, but thank you: Hunger Games, Katniss, and Collins 😉).
And do I really (REALLY) want that kind of attention? Most of the time, these guys are scumbags. And I realized the girls they were giving their attention to.. were LVW, easy, no work, low self-esteem, no personality, pickmeishas (😅😂) etc.
Thanks to this subreddit, and my subconscious (at least, I'd like to think), I figured out that something, SOMETHING, in these guys is telling them that I wouldn't put up with their bs, wouldn't react to them well, and/or wouldn't be interested in taking them up on their pitiful offers (and would probably tell their wives/girlfriends).
And I am. A-okay. With. That.
I came to a pivotal point when some colleagues of mine and I were training one day, and one of our former colleagues was also helping train the new people who were at the center that day. We'll call the former colleague X, and my friend B. B and I walked up the sidewalk close to X and X turned his body away from us, paused a second, and walked back in to continue training. B and I looked at each other shrugged and started talking, and B suddenly says to me, "If there are any pretty girls in there, X is probably going to flirt with them." And I looked at B and said, "I don't understand why he never flirted with me." B didn't give me an answer, and we changed the subject after that. (In all fairness to B, his ex-girlfriend cheated on him with X...X by the way, is married with a baby 🙄).
Has anyone else has any experience with this? Please tell me I am not alone in this topic.