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masquerading as a man with a reason ([personal profile] ysobel) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt2025-01-27 04:53 pm
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Short and ... uh ... well, short

Dear Miss Manners: Is there a proper way to let someone know of my feelings for them? Does a proper courtship have to, at least initially, be hinted at and read between the lines?

Despite the appeal of love at first sight, Miss Manners would think that a declaration of love would be more flattering when you have gotten to know something about the person.

But this is not the Lovelorn Department, so she consulted her dear friend Stendhal, who declares in his book “On Love” that it is doubt that fuels love — and certainty that cools it.
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[personal profile] conuly 2025-01-28 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh ffs. Your life is not a romantic comedy, LW. Just ask them out like a normal person!