I threw a princess fit 2 weekends ago when he arrived at our date wearing t-shirt and jeans.
And mind you, it’s the SAME t-shirt and jeans that he wore to work that morning. He went home after that, meaning he had the chance to change but he didn’t bother to. When I reminded him of that, he merely replied: “Huh? Really? It is the same t-shirt, meh?”
Let me also explain that just hours before the date, he had called to cajoled at me, “Dress yourself up and look pretty, ok?” which resulted in me preening for a good, er, 20 minutes. It would have otherwise taken me just 10.
So I turned up at the restaurant looking like a tramp with my LBD, killer heels, studs and the whole shebang, while he waltz in looking like…like…THAT! He even had the cheeks to wolf whistle at me.
“ARRGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!URGHHHH! GAAAAKS!” I screamed.
“What’s wrong with you??” he asked.
“You! You…! You….urghhhhh……”, I wheezed.
It so happen that the very next day, we happen to flip through a Cleo magazine together and we chanced upon this reader’s question that hit the nail on the head on this issue. It reads: “My boyfriend has let himself go ever since we started dating. He no longer bother looking good for me. How can I let him know that it bothers me?”
He looked at me sternly and asked whether I was the one who wrote in, and whether I am showing the magazine to him on purpose.
I said no. (My exact words were: “Crazy, I where got so much time?!) but clearly I was smirking from the inside at this coincidence. This is the laws of attraction at its best.
So, the magazine interviewed a number of guys to give comments on this question; and their kok comments are:
Guy No. 1: “The girl should dress more provocatively and sexily so that the boyfriend will follow her dress sense.”
(Obviously, that didn’t help in my case.)
Guy No. 2: “She should bring him join the company of other good looking men with better dress sense so that he will feel sub-conscious about himself and be inspired to dress better.”
(Hello darling, the only group of such men are the gay guys, and I very much doubt that a straight man wants to copy a gay guy’s fashion unless he is super comfortable with himself. Next.)
Guy No. 3: “She should tell her boyfriend, ‘I like you better when you were more handsome.”
(HAHAHHAHAHAHHA! I don’t see how any girl above the age of 18 can get away with this line! More handsome??! Bah!)
And lastly, this older Guy No. 4 (when I say older, I mean he is probably 25. This is Cleo) said that the girl should tell the boyfriend “gently and in a manner that will not bruise his ego’ that his dress sense is making her unhappy.
Well, obviously that’s the most sensible answer. He looked at me, frowning, because what I said to him yesterday was the exact ego-crushing opposite.
(“WHY DID YOU TURN FRUMPY ON ME? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHAT IF I DRESS LIKE A FRUMPY HOUSEWIFE NEXT TIME? YOU KNOW, LIKE THOSE AUNTIES IN JURONG WHO GOES SHOPPING WITH THEIR BEEHIVE HAIR AND NIGHT GOWN. WOULD YOU LIKE THAT? HUR HUR HUR?”)
What’s the moral of the story?
- Don’t read Cleo with your partner
- Don’t read Cleo, period, once you are passed 18 years old.
And lastly:
- Don’t throw a fit just because your partner didn’t dress up to go eat RAMEN with you.
He: Eh. By the way, I was in the Cleo Bachelor competition back in my time, you know.
Frou: Err.. yah.
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