Romantically speaking, what works for you?

[Carl East]

I must admit to being overly romantic, although I don't see anything wrong with that. I enjoy surprising my lady (if I had one) with tickets to the theartre, or a surprise weekend break in a 5 star hotel.

We're not all the same however, because what I find romantic you might not, so I wondered what kind of answers I would get from the following question.

I think it's fair to say that most women like roses/chocolates etc, but as a woman/man what works for you?

Carl

 

[cutie pie]

Flowers and candy are all well and good. . .but I much prefer originality. . .something that shows that you've been paying attention to what I like. I also like simplicity just as much as, if not more than, extravagance. A simple note left for me to find, a simple token to show that you were thinking of me, a hug when I'm feeling blue, and unexpected phone call in the middle of the day. . .all romantic gestures that would make me melt.

Of course, it could be that I'm just easy.

 

[Carl East]

A simple note left for me to find, a simple token to show that you were thinking of me, a hug when I'm feeling blue, and unexpected phone call in the middle of the day. . .all romantic gestures that would make me melt.

Of course, it could be that I'm just easy.

With me it's so easy, if she pays attention to me for just fifteen minutes a day I'd be putty in her hands. I love the little pecks on the cheek, or a playful grope whilst in passing and cuddles.

I enjoy doing simple things like holding hands whenever we go out, or snuggling up to watch a movie together. {sigh}

I want all these things, so why can't I get them damn it. lol



Carl

 

[Jewelz]

Great thread Carl

I too am very romantic and sensual. And yes, the chocolates and roses are wonderful...but I am like sis and I like the gestures that prove he was listening to me. I love unexpected phone calls, cards, letters. I love the way he says I love you or tender sweet caresses upon my face, my fingers....the look in the eyes when we connect, eyes speaking volumes absolutely melt me. I love pet names, hand holding, cuddling, talking. One of my favorite things to do is to lie together in a dark room with maybe a candle or two lit, lying in each others arms, caressing and talking the night away. i love conversation.

on the bigger scale, i love flowers! i love the planned evenings away. surprises. a candle lit dinner with good conversation, whispers drive me wild.

oh only if my hubby would do these things. sigh

 

[MissTaken]

For me, romance involves anything that says, "I am thinking of you."

It could be an e mail or poem.

A flower randomly picked from the neighbor's garden.


Even to pick up my favorite ice cream on the way home from work...just cause you are thinking of me.

 

[Carl East]

Great thread Carl

One of my favorite things to do is to lie together in a dark room with maybe a candle or two lit, lying in each others arms, caressing and talking the night away. i love conversation.

Funnily enough that's very simular to a particular thing I like to do. It involves a couple of bottles of wine, plus a open roaring fire and plenty of talk, watching the ambers glow whilst in each others arms.

A beach fire on a warm nights even better, so that we can just look up at the stars and finish the night by making love, perfection.

Carl

 

[Carl East]

For me, romance involves anything that says, "I am thinking of you."

It could be an e mail or poem.

A flower randomly picked from the neighbor's garden.


Even to pick up my favorite ice cream on the way home from work...just cause you are thinking of me.

I love consideration for others, I think that is very important in any relationship.

I also think that being that close actually improves your sex life, mainly because you want that person who cares so much to share in the one thing that only you can give.



Carl

 

[Jewelz]

Funnily enough that's very simular to a particular thing I like to do. It involves a couple of bottles of wine, plus a open roaring fire and plenty of talk, watching the ambers glow whilst in each others arms.

A beach fire on a warm nights even better, so that we can just look up at the stars and finish the night by making love, perfection.

Carl

i think you may know that the beach is my favorite place to be....and yes, perfection.

 

[whspr]

A few weeks ago I met my man for the first time. He was so wonderfully romantic. It was the way he would just stop and turn around and kiss me. The way he held my hand and squeezed it.
The way our eyes locked on each others.The smile that melted my heart. He bought me a book of love poems, then he wrote in it himself. I'll never have anything more special than that. That was so romantic. Actually, the way he held me while I read it and cried was VERY romantic. We had several romantic dinners, talking for hours as we ate. OMG...I'm missing him.....

whspr

 

[Carl East]

A few weeks ago I met my man for the first time. He was so wonderfully romantic. It was the way he would just stop and turn around and kiss me. The way he held my hand and squeezed it.
The way our eyes locked on each others.The smile that melted my heart. He bought me a book of love poems, then he wrote in it himself. I'll never have anything more special than that. That was so romantic. Actually, the way he held me while I read it and cried was VERY romantic. We had several romantic dinners, talking for hours as we ate. OMG...I'm missing him.....

whspr

It's beautiful sharing moments like that isn't it, it's also sad whenever your loved ones not there with you.

I have a true tale that I'd like to share, it involves my second wife, only this was before we got married.

I'd walked her home after our forth date, and she decided to test me, (I didn't know this at the time, she told me later on that night) she wanted to see if the words I'd been using were genuine.

So she started off by telling me she might be moving back up north, and that most of her relationships hadn't worked down here. As we walked I listened, I couldn't help feeling I was about to lose someone that meant everything to me.

What she didn't realise was that as she talked, I was crying. I'd lost other girl friends for no apparent reason, so to lose the one I felt at the time was the ONE was devastating.

Once she spotted me in tears, she told me about her test and how much of a bitch she felt at that moment. We ended up that night as close as we were ever going to be and I so miss that kind of closeness.

Carl

 

[whspr]

Very sweet story Carl. A man who can cry is always a winner with me.

soft kisses,
whspr

 

[Carl East]

Very sweet story Carl. A man who can cry is always a winner with me.

soft kisses,
whspr

It's easy to cry when your in love, it's easier still when you lose it.



Carl

 

[ReBeLBeLLe]

Romantic....there's sentimental, fanciful, fantastic, imaginary, quixotic, visionary, creative, inventive...okay this would explain why there's not any one thing that I think can define romantic for me. it's not a place. It's a mood, a glance, a whisper, a touch. The romance is the aura that surrounds two people when tehy find themselves wanting to please each other, tease each other and touch each other with all of their senses.

 

[Carl East]

Sentimental, imaginary and creative are the one's that suit me, or fit where I'm concerned.

Sentimentality, comes when I buy that special someone a card or flowers.

Imaginary, comes when I want to surprise her with something totally unawares, like a romantic weekend in a posh hotel.

Creative, comes in the bedroom, where I want to please her more than ever before.

Carl

 

[Lady_Sam]

I too would agree its the gestures. The knowing when someone needs you without being told so. The cards, the notes...the touches.

 

[knightstalker]

I know you are looking for womens opinions but I like the idea of this thread so I been peeking in...I have met a wonderful lady who I am now seeing everyday and things are great ...She is broke up with her boyfriend who has alot of money and you guessed it I don't ..We spent all day together yesterday and after she went home I was thinking about her and went out to my nieghbors yard cut a coulple of rosee from her rose bush and wrote a little love note telling her how much I enjoyed our time together today...I went to her house and putt it all under her wiper blade of her car so she would see it this morning and sure enough she called me on her way to work crying ..She said that was the sweetest thing anyone ever did for her and she was so touched by it that she promises to make it up to me ..So I guess the moral of the story is somewomen are really happy to just be loved and cared about and do not need the moon and the stars ...Does this even make sense oh well I feel good today and just don't care ...Not even the wings losing can bring me down

 

[Carl East]

I know you are looking for womens opinions but I like the idea of this thread so I been peeking in...I have met a wonderful lady who I am now seeing everyday and things are great ...She is broke up with her boyfriend who has alot of money and you guessed it I don't ..We spent all day together yesterday and after she went home I was thinking about her and went out to my nieghbors yard cut a coulple of rosee from her rose bush and wrote a little love note telling her how much I enjoyed our time together today...I went to her house and putt it all under her wiper blade of her car so she would see it this morning and sure enough she called me on her way to work crying ..She said that was the sweetest thing anyone ever did for her and she was so touched by it that she promises to make it up to me ..So I guess the moral of the story is somewomen are really happy to just be loved and cared about and do not need the moon and the stars ...Does this even make sense oh well I feel good today and just don't care ...Not even the wings losing can bring me down

It makes perfect sense Knightstalker, and do you know why, because you cared enough to make an effort. If only there were more people that thought the same way you do.

By the way, if you check my original post, you will see I wanted men and women's opinions.

Have a great day

Carl

 

[sortacurious]

LMAO...
That's perfect Knight....
I actually had a guy woo me into going out with him by constantly leaving roses on my windshield. Ended up speding 4 years with him. Smooth move there, my friend.




Being starved for romance, recently...a guy hile I wasn't looking picked a bunch of grass from the spot we just made love on and later tied it all in a ribbon so I could keep it always. The smell of the crushed meadow grass will always remind me of that day! How's that for romance, Carl?

 

[Carl East]

Being starved for romance, recently...a guy hile I wasn't looking picked a bunch of grass from the spot we just made love on and later tied it all in a ribbon so I could keep it always. The smell of the crushed meadow grass will always remind me of that day! How's that for romance, Carl?

Very sweet, it's gestures like that which give me hope for all those romantic souls out there, who are looking for just that kind of person.



Carl

 

[Jewelz]

SC! that is so wonderful!!

Carl honey, congrats on the 1000!!!!

Last night, I was online for awhile. Told Carl I was leaving to spend time with hubby before he left today for another week away. I went in the room, hubby was asleep. So I came back out to the computer for a little bit longer. When it was time for me to go to bed, I went in the living room where hubby was sleeping on the floor, took off my shirt and just laid tight against him, taking in his smell and lightly brushing his forehead and face with my fingers, kissing his arms and fingers. he slept through it all but it gave me a sense of comfort. I whispered to him that I loved him and be careful in his travels and that I miss him already...he mumbled that he loved me too. I went to bed and woke up to an email from him telling me he made it safely there and he misses me. It was nice.

 

[Carl East]

SC! that is so wonderful!!

Carl honey, congrats on the 1000!!!!

Last night, I was online for awhile. Told Carl I was leaving to spend time with hubby before he left today for another week away. I went in the room, hubby was asleep. So I came back out to the computer for a little bit longer. When it was time for me to go to bed, I went in the living room where hubby was sleeping on the floor, took off my shirt and just laid tight against him, taking in his smell and lightly brushing his forehead and face with my fingers, kissing his arms and fingers. he slept through it all but it gave me a sense of comfort. I whispered to him that I loved him and be careful in his travels and that I miss him already...he mumbled that he loved me too. I went to bed and woke up to an email from him telling me he made it safely there and he misses me. It was nice.

That is so sweet, you have more than your fair share of love to share Jewelz. Now if only you could hold me like that, I wouldn't leave in the first place.



Carl

 

[Jewelz]

That is so sweet, you have more than your fair share of love to share Jewelz. Now if only you could hold me like that, I wouldn't leave in the first place.



Carl

Oh darlin, I know you would be giving me the same thing in return. That is what I long for. I know hubby appreciates what I give him, but for some reason, he doesnt do it himself. Very rarely. You are right though, I have sooo much love to give.

 

[Kelly_Liscious]

I do not care much for roses , I will take the chocolates though I have a sweet tooth.
I like when a man is just himself with me, I don't like when men try to impress me... make me laugh and keep my on my toes and I am all yours...

 

[Carl East]

I do not care much for roses , I will take the chocolates though I have a sweet tooth.
I like when a man is just himself with me, I don't like when men try to impress me... make me laugh and keep my on my toes and I am all yours...

You have to gauge what your partner wants though, we all do. If the mushy stuff doen't cut it, you try to please your partner in other ways.

I'm lucky where humour's concerned though, I've never had trouble making people laugh.

Carl

 

[Kelly_Liscious]

A man with a sense of humor is like finding gold in my eyes. There are times men try to hard to be funny and it back fires on them. But those men who can make me laugh , that is a very good thing.