Anonymous asked this question on 7/12/2000:

I have had this friend for a good many years; while I became a plain common person, he is quite the opposite: 32, very handsome, athletic (played football a lot), gets on easily with people, graduated from a famous place, he is smart and professionally very successful. The proverbial winner... Well, we were taking about girls the other day and he confided to me that "no woman can resist him, single or otherwise" if he really wants to have her. Of course I was bothered by this bragging (although he DOES get a lot of beauties) and mentioned married girls that I did not think would fall for his advances; he answered with a sly smile that he was sure they would think about him as they cuddled with their boyfriends or husbands. I was shocked because even discounting the bragging he DID seem to believe that. This left me saddened, because on thinking about it I feel that many beautiful people may also be like that. Now for the question: is it really so, beauty/success are irresistible? And even if that may be so, is a girl being unfaithful if she DOES remeber such a person while with her loved one?

DearJodi gave this response on 7/12/2000:

I would say, that Yes, beauty/success are irresistable. If one is confident that is one story if one is a braggart and vain (which your friend seems to be) then there is no real substance to that person and they are incapable of having a true and meaningful relationship because they love themselves so much and their ego is so inflated that that is no room for anything or anyone else. If love consists of how many "beauties" were conquered then your friend must be the happiest man in the world! But, I would venture to say that he is not a happy person, because all of his Barbies are only looking at what he can give them , so they deserve eachother. If I, on the other hand were faced with you or he and had to choose, I would choose you.

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