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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

In that situation my question to you would have been
"what can I do to get aquainted enough that you would
consider going out with me?" 
Would that have made any difference?  If so what
wouild be your response?
Van Dell

--- Wendy Gulliver <crazygardens AT verizon.net> wrote:

> I am fortunate that I am not so traumatized that I
> cannot look at men 
> without getting "the creeps".  I know some women
> are.  In fact, I enjoy 
> looking at men. <G>  However, I also enjoy looking
> at lions.  I feel similar 
> about both.  I don't like to be alone an a room with
> them without their 
> "handler".  Even then, I have learned not to turn my
> back on them.  They 
> make me feel like prey.  In the right setting, they
> are fine, but I don't 
> think it is always wise to keep one around the house
> especially if you live 
> alone.  I have to know one very well before I feel
> comfortable letting one 
> in my "personal space".  Enough about lions.    I
> think it would be nice to 
> someday find a man I could call my "soul mate" and
> be able to live a happy 
> life together.  I don't think I ever will.  I know
> this is by my own design. 
> A guy who would not take a polite "Thanks, but no
> thanks" for an answer 
> asked me out.  I explained I don't date guys I don't
> know.  He asked how am 
> I to get to know anyone if I won't date.   Oh,
> dilemma.  In the meantime, 
> I'm not lonely, just too small to do some of the
> work that needs to be done 
> around here.  lol
> 
> Wendy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >>   . . . the thought of having a few "sisters"
> around appeals to
> >> me.  After all there is safety in numbers. I
> hadn't thought about
> >> this until this thread came up, but I don't think
> the notion of
> >> homestead of a few ladies and a shared man sounds
> so wacky at all.
> >
> > Not so wacky at all, indeed. There are two such
> enclaves north of me,
> > in the general area of Ava, Missouri. I have been
> to Hawk Hill Farm,
> > where perhaps a half dozen women live in several
> houses. No men.
> > There is a larger enclave west, I think, of Ava,
> but I have not been
> > there. It was started by a woman for abused women.
> Men are not
> > welcome at all because some of the women are
> traumatized by the mere 
> > sight.
> 
> 
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