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How To Get a Guy To Do What YOU Want


» By Shipwreck - Oct 27th, 2007

If you want a guy to do something, you have to bribe him - WRONG. Guys are born with a ‘hunter’ and ‘protector’ instinct. If you can show that you need him to do something otherwise you will feel underprovided or unsafe, he will do it - I guarantee it!

Let’s use an example…

I woke up the other morning, realising there was no milk for breakfast. There was some bread and eggs, and I would have been quite happy having scrambled eggs, so I suggested this to my girlfriend. Not wanting scrambled eggs, she had 3 options:

a) skip breakfast
b) make me scrambled eggs and moan
c) get the milk herself
d) get me to get the milk

I was still in bed when she asked me to get the milk. Instead of ‘Shipwreck can you please get the milk’ (to which I would have rolled over and fallen back asleep until she left), she said “I’d really like it if you could get the milk because I don’t want to go out in the cold”.

I immediately thought to myself ‘I can’t let her go out in the cold, I need to get her the milk so she can eat’. So up I got and walked to the shops.

The lesson here is if you want a guy to to what YOU want, make out that it will really please you, and that you need to be provided for.


Category: asking for things, hints & tips, how to please your partner, relationship advice

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3 Responses »

  1. Never heard of making scrambled eggs without milk - yeah good one!

  2. Of course it’s possible to make scrambled eggs without milk but this guy no doubt is still learning to cook and scrambled eggs made with milk is probably the way his mum made it! He might like your recipe:)

  3. P***Y Whipped could be the other answer!! But I actually agree with what you have to say about hunter and protector instinct, but this only happens when it it for someone they truely love or care about, or simply they are just whipped!

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