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Originally Posted by Jamie

What I want to know, is why men feel they need to pretend to be jerks in order to impress women?

Maybe "jerks" is too strong here, but certainly not being their genuine natural (and sometimes vulnerable) imperfect selves.

I remember the first woman I ever tried to impress, it was on Scarborough (north yorks, UK), I was 4, can't remember if she was an older woman (5?) or not. Anyhow, I remember, I had just come out of the sea; and from some reason, I told her I'd caught a fish, in my hand, and that it'd escaped; in an attempt to impress her.

I don't think it worked! Hmm. I must be a slow learner though, cause to this day, I still have the same mentality.

I'm not pretending, I work very hard at it thank you and apparently I'm very successful at being a jerk!!! I wouldn't necessarily say that it means I'm successful with women but being a jerk just comes naturally to me and I think alot of other men (sorry, I let the cat out of the bag) LOL!!!