DO YOU HAVE A NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE PERSONALITY?
Subtract five points for each of the repelling traits you possess. (Be honest.) And add five points for each of the appealing traits you can honestly claim as a consistent part of your personality.
If you ended up with a negative score you can feel fairly sure that you are being handicapped in your association with the other sex by an unattractive personality. In fact if you checked more than eight of the repelling characteristics (regardless of the number of appealing traits you checked) you have grounds for concern about the impression you create. However, if you checked five or less of the repelling traits and ended with a total positive score of more than one hundred you apparently have an unusually appealing personality.
Chapter VIII
Attracting the One You Want
Will You marry the one person you have met whom you would like most to marry, will you have to be content with a second choice, or will you have no choice at all? The answer will depend on how appealing a person you are. And frequently that appeal can be enhanced by knowledge of techniques for winning the romantic interest of persons of the other sex.
The person who wants to win a mate must put three thoughts in the prospective mate’s head. You must make that person feel the need of a mate ... that you are the person who can best fit that need ... and that the time is ripe for marriage.
First, let’s consider some of the things a girl can do to get a man thinking along those lines:
—She should talk about the man’s basic needs in a subtle, impersonal way by discussing such things as good food, comfortable furniture, fireplaces, a place where one can bring friends. She gets his ideas on the style of home he likes, and gets his ideas about children. She does all this in a friendly, optimistic way and avoids discussing some of the disadvantages that marriage often entails. Veterans are particularly responsive to such an approach because their shifting, destructive life as fighting men has filled them with a profound desire to settle down to a comfortable, creative life.