I have a brief experience to share....
As most of you all probably already know on here, I'm pretty religious, so I attend my place of worship on a weekly basis, and last week at Bible Study I saw this guy there that is usually kind of sporadic with his attendance.
He's cute, but he's always been kind of hit or miss with his attendance, but usually we've had some pretty nice conversations in the past, and I sometimes can sense that he
might be attracted to me.
Well..... The "OLD me" would have gone up to him to greet HIM first after services were over to say hello and see how he's been doing, but the "NEW me" said
NOPE! I'll be my "feminine" self, and see what he does
.... (if anything) So, I just minded my own business afterwards, went and said hello to many friends, smiled, laughed, and generally looked happy. I ended up going over to say hello to his sister (who is a friend of mine) and we happened to be talking to each other around him. I saw him (her brother) glance over my way from the corner of my eye, but he was engrossed in conversation with another guy in the congregation. I just continued to be engrossed in conversation with my friend, and I introduced a friend of mine who was visiting.
Then, after our long conversation ended and she left, I just stood around talking to my friend (who was visiting), and low and behold!!!! The guy came past us, and kept looking and smiling at me.
When our eyes met, he walked RIGHT OVER to me, gave me a hug, and started asking me how I was doing, etc. I asked him how he was yadda yadda, and introduced him to my friend. We talked briefly, and later on he left.
I know it's a small thing, but I felt SO much better and so much more feminine letting the GUY come to me instead of me going to him. Even if our relationship is simply PLATONIC, I still felt better allowing the guy to notice me first, instead of me reaching out to notice HIM.
One thing I will never forget from that book "Powerful & Feminine" is the chapter (Chapter 7: Stimulate Your Longing To Be Seen) that talks about how a woman has a NEED/desire to be noticed, and that women sometimes hide this desire, but when you
allow yourself to be noticed, you feel so much more feminine.
Here's a quote from that Chapter that I found very interesting:
I thought this whole chapter was interesting, but especially the passage above. It's very interesting because I think that instintively, SOME bw (not all of course) have typically been taught either through family, or society in general to sort of hide their desire to be "seen" or "noticed" in order to not garner "too much attention". I had no idea (before reading this book) that suppressing this need can actually have an impact on our ability to express our femininiity in a comfortabe way.