Why do people approach me

People say very weird things to me. They tell me their life story etc. So you mena to tell me you sit in class and not 1 guy approaches you for casual conversations? I find that hard to believe.

I thought guys be all over girls in college. Is this still revelant? Show All Show Less. Alot of times yes. I usually go outside in decent jeans, a shirt, with my hair done and freshly shaved. I guess it's easier to get aproached that way.

I love helping people finding their way though. When I see people staring at a map I ask if I can help out. Like they do in Canada!

Xper 7. Once someone honked at me while I was walking. It was this old Asian man. I was taken aback right before he asked me for directions to a certain building. Ahah, joke's on me. Yes, and I have no clue why. Do I look like I'm good with directions or something?

Because I'm actually really horrible. Sign Up Now! Related Questions. Many kinds of birds fly south at the approach of winter. There is a very steep approach to the house.

UK We got stuck in a traffic jam on the approach road. That's the nearest approach to an apology you're going to get from Paula. Arrivals and departures. Similar and the same. We should approach this problem logically.

We need to adopt a different approach to the problem. The company said it has already had several approaches that "may or may not lead to an offer ". Examples of approach. Constructions: a construction grammar approach to argument structure.

From the Cambridge English Corpus. The screening system permitted a population approach for quantification of changes in seed population thermal behaviour in relation to dormancy loss.

The third approach uses planning effects on task performance to investigate how learners monitor their language. This indicator aimed to validate teachers' approach to lesson planning while attempting to link teacher thinking and administrator thinking through a shared discourse. At the outer edges of the plume, however, the production and destruction terms rapidly approach zero and advection and transport balance each other.

Involving consumers in assessing service quality : benefits of using a qualitative approach. Assessing beliefs about the needs of senior citizens using the focus group interview : a qualitative approach. In observational research in the general population, however, a continuum approach may be more useful than use of a qualitative cut-off point. This is a detailed and meticulous study, which combines sociolinguistic methodology with a qualitative pragmatics approach.

We employ a multimethod, quantitative, and qualitative approach to the effort to link neighborhood structural conditions with child maltreatment reports. In the epidemiological literature, however, insomnia tends to be defined using a variety of approaches, ranging from rigorous diagnostic algorithms, to single questionnaire items. Our task-based approach is presented in view of a rigorous mathematically-based optimization formulation, where cost functions characterizing human performance measures are implemented.

There is a clear demarcation amongst the approaches used to compare organic and non-organic farming. His approach to psychopathology was sceptical and philosophical; and he never created his own school of psychiatric, let alone psychopathological, teaching.

The nearer that this model is approached, the more successful a purely quantitative approach will be, as in drug trials. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations with approach. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. See all collocations with approach.

Translations of approach in Chinese Traditional. See more. Need a translator? If someone matters enough to us, we take a step toward them, and if they don't respond with open arms we risk taking yet another step or two. I can't think of any adult relationship that hasn't involved some coaxing on someone's part--and if you're not getting the kind of coaxing you'd like, you can stand on lonely ground, or you can stick your neck out a bit.

Most adults have been burned at one time or another, and so forming friendships isn't as simple as just showing up in the sandbox. Kids can bond that way, but the rest of us need to work at it. Not everyone is looking for more friends--even if the idea is appealing, their family schedules bog them down or they're already maxed out in other ways.

Lots of people enjoy friendly exchanges in the context of work or group activities, but the idea is to test those exchanges by offering more--and if you get a bite, then you've found someone else who's also in the market for a friend, and that's golden. Burner, just from your demeanor here, you aren't friendly, warm, funny or inviting in the way you communicate at all. Life isn't so digital. Maybe if you just, you know, relax and smile and not be so rigid maybe people will reciprocate some.

I agree with Hex. You haven't told us anything about yourself or your attempts to meet people half way, you've only been strict and critical and demanding of one-way street answers to an otherwise blank slate.

I'm dismissive of empty exhortations to do more approaching and showing more initiative, mainly because I'm already doing that damn near all the time. I'm asking how to regularly elicit said behavior from other people where I go based on immediate visuals, and though it's fine if people here don't know how to do that, I find evasion of the topic quite frustrating.

I've tried that tactic in the past. Relaxing my standards there i. That's just it, though. Everyone's a "blank slate" until after an interaction. And yet somehow some blank slates in any given environment are being considered as being worth a basic approach and some aren't, and I'm always finding myself on the wrong side of it. True, I didn't state much about myself or my own attempts, but that's because that wasn't what I was trying to focus on.

And I'm not exactly convinced it's even relevant. If I knew, I'd be doing something about it. I was hoping to get some sort of idea of where specifically it's all falling apart. You won't give us enough information to help you, so how are we supposed to know?

You're certainly not shy about being mean to all of us, and that's really the only hint we've got to go by. By fallininlove Started Wednesday at PM. By Jadesamson Started November 5. Your Wingmam posted a blog entry in Youtube , November 3. Brad Browning posted a blog entry in Youtube , November 3. Psych2Go posted a blog entry in Youtube , November 3. Anna Bey posted a blog entry in Youtube , October The School of Life posted a blog entry in Youtube , October All Activity Home People don't approach me.

How do I find out why? People don't approach me. Start new topic. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. BurnerMan Posted May 1, Posted May 1, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Had the same problem I suppose I still do, but since I'm married, I don't notice it as much.

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