Five Other Ways To Tell I Really Like Her

All men and women analyze the beginning stages of a relationship with one another. We pick apart the little things they do or say so we can try and get a sense of how they really feel about us. But the old last-piece-of-food-on-the-plate is one of those tired tropes women are still relying on to this day. The most it means when I give a woman the last piece of food on my plate is I’m not hungry anymore. Nothing more, nothing less.

Thank God for me and my idiosyncratic mind.  Allow me to break down the five ways a woman would be able to tell I really like her. All five may not apply to all men, but I’m pretty sure they might agree with one or two.

I SAY HER NAME AND EVERYONE KNOWS WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT

If I’m on the phone with my woman while I’m around some company (friends, family, or both) someone is going to ask me who I’m talking to. Pay attention to the way I answer.

If I say, “I’m talking to my girl,” I’m sure such a answer would warm a woman’s heart, but such an answer is classic double-speak. To the woman on the phone it sounds like I’m claiming her, but to the person I’m answering, it’s the exact same answer I gave when I was talking to the last girl who called. They’re just smart enough to not ask which one. But if I’m specific with my reply, if I answer with her name, the woman on the phone can rest assured we are on a different level. I really like her and everyone else knows exactly who “her” is.

I CLEANED BEHIND THE TOILET

I’m generally a clean person. But I will admit, I don’t get to scrubbing the tiles in my bathroom every week. Like most men, the standard of cleanliness I try to maintain at my apartment is something I like to call, “Neat enough to beat it up.” Every man keeps his apartment at least that clean, because such a standard doesn’t require too much effort. Just keep the clothes off the bed, the kitchen sink empty. It’s all for vanity’s sake. But if I really, really like a woman, she can check behind my toilet and it looks as clean as a showroom floor.

MY FACEBOOK PROFILE PIC IS A PICTURE OF ME AND HER TOGETHER

Women love to act like a man who claims his woman in his Facebook Relationship Status is really doing something.

No he isn’t.

The last woman I was really serious about, wasn’t on Facebook at the time we were dating, so changing my status to “In A Relationship” really didn’t say much. I still could have lied to any woman who wanted to chat with me online. What ultimately proved how serious I was about my relationship (if one believes we can gauge such things through social networking) was when I put a picture of me and her together in my Profile. As one of my boys commented on the photo the day after I put the picture up, “He’s officially turned in his membership card.”

I PAY FOR A MOVIE  SHE WANTS TO SEE

I have a friend who went to go see, “It’s Complicated”. Most people are familiar with this film starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. What most people don’t know is it’s directed by Nancy Meyers  the undisputed queen of chick-flicks. So when my boy told me he went to her latest film, I was stunned. This was the same guy who wanted to see “Sherlock Holmes” because in the previews, Sherlock “Looks like he’s getting it on with mad chicks.” That’s what he said. So when he saw my face of shock after he told me about “It’s Complicated, he quickly cleared the air. “Oh, I made her pay for it,” he said. “I told her I’m not paying to go see that movie.”

This was one of the most brilliant methods I ever heard on how to gauge how we feel about a woman we’re dating.. If I’m still concerning myself with who pays for what, and she’s still keeping a mental note of things she’s paid for, then clearly our relationship hasn’t developed past the formalities of a first date. If I really liked her, I’d be down to see whatever movie she wanted to see and happily pay, and every once in a while, if she really liked me, she’d pay for a movie I want to see. Two tickets to a movie in New York City, $24.00. Two tickets to a movie only one person wants to see: Priceless!

I WILL WILLINGLY HELP HER BREAK HER BAD HABITS

The true measure of how I feel about a woman can be taken by the interest I show in her journey to becoming a better version of her. A vested interest in a partner’s maturation is the greatest sign I care. So if I date a woman who has a snoring problem, and while she is sleeping, I gently place a Breathe Right strip over her nose, I’m not only doing it because I’m trying to sleep, I’m doing it because I care to see her do better. Hopefully she realizes this when she looks at herself in the bathroom mirror in the morning.