How to flirt

Most advice on how to flirt will suggest that making eye contact and smiling are important. When you meet single people do you ever wait for the other person to smile first?

Next time, try smiling first and see what happens – what’s the worst that could happen if they don't respond?

Being positive can also be an attraction. Even if you don’t like the place you’re at or the music – try and find something positive to say (and believe it!).

What is more attractive – to hear someone say “The music is really awful, just not my kind of thing” or “This isn’t my usual choice of music, but it’s getting me talking to people instead of being on the dance floor!”

Acting with confidence is also an aspect of how to flirt. Anyone can initiate a conversation, but if your body language and attitude show confidence, whether the person responds to you or not, you will have come across well.

Flirting can be harmless, friendly fun but if you’re doing it with the serious intention of being seductive, you may not get the response you'd like and you may be disappointed.

If you want to find love, this might not be the best way to get someone interested in you because they might think you're after sex rather than being serious about dating or a relationship.

Read more about our dating advice here.

Knowing how how to flirt is more about feeling good in yourself so that your actions and behaviour come from this deep place inside, of liking yourself, valuing yourself and enjoying being you. Knowing how to flirt is then a matter of simply being your best self.

Conveying this inner confidence comes across in many ways, and might have nothing to do with pouting lips and flashing eyes. If you’re feeling great inside then this will naturally come across in how you conduct yourself. There will be no arrogance or over confidence, but a general sense or knowing that how you are is very attractive – and remember, one man’s meat is another man’s poison, so if you genuinely feel good inside , you will be able to stay on top of things if even being your best self isn’t responded to!
These concepts are dealt with on “The Art of Attracting your Ideal Partner” workshops or you might want to address your individual challenges through coaching.

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How to show interest

There are different ways of showing interest in someone and knowing how to flirt doesn’t necessarily mean the person will be attracted to you.

We can be pro-active about showing interest or reactive i.e. responding to someone showing interest in you.

According to John Gray’s book "Mars and Venus On a Date", these two kinds of interest are reciprocal in their effect on each other.

A man’s active interest in a woman can generate feelings of receptive interest in her. e.g. a man asks a woman on a date – he has a goal in mind and is actively interested. The woman shows receptive interest by accepting which in turn generates his active interest in her.

It makes a woman feel special when a man is willing to risk rejection to get to know her. Some women will become interested in a man simply because he was interested enough to ask.

A woman’s receptive interest is like the kindling wood that is necessary for building the fire of romance, while a man’s active interest is the match required to light the fire. Striking the match alone cannot possibly start the fire. A woman must provide the kindling. An interesting take on how attraction works.

If a woman doesn’t provide the receptive interest, the fire will not have a chance to burn. Practically speaking, this means that when a woman is focused more on giving than receiving, when she cares more about pleasing him than about what would please her, a man will not become more interested in her.

Some women mistakenly assume that flirting is about being eager to please a man and that as a result he will be pleased and become more interested.

He may be pleased, but he will not necessarily become more actively interested ie more attracted.

When a woman thinks that how to flirt with a man is by showing that she’s actively interested in pursuing him, it may be flattering to a man and may generate in him some receptive interest. He may feel good about it, but he may not be interested in responding to her.

What makes a man more interested in a woman is when he feels really good in her presence. Men like feeling successful, and when he is actively engaged in achieving a goal he feels best about himself.

The way a woman makes him feel good is by creating opportunities for him to succeed in truly fulfilling her needs.

When a man really likes how he fees around a woman, he begins to like her more.

No matter how much flirting or interest from a woman a man receives, he will feel better about it when he feels that he actively pursued it and achieved it – that he’s achieved his goal.

The better a man feels about himself, the more he is motivated to share himself and the more attracted he is to someone who makes him feel that way.

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