Should We Play It Cool When We Like Someone?
**Valentine's Day special**
\n"One of the paradoxes of the dating game is that we know that by coming across as enthusiastic at an early stage \u2013 if we ring them the next day, if we are open about how attractive we find them, if we suggest meeting them again very soon \u2013 we are putting ourselves at a high risk of disgusting the very person we would so like to get to know better...
\nBut we can find a way out of the conundrum by drilling deeper into the philosophy that underpins the well-flagged danger of being overly eager. Why is detachment so often recommended? Why are we in essence not meant to call too soon?..
\nYet, there should logically be an option to disentangle the two strands: that is, to be able to reveal high enthusiasm and, at the same time, not thereby to imply manic dependence. There should be an option to appear at once very keen and very sane...
\nThe ability to do so depends on a little known emotional art to which we seldom have recourse or introduction: strong vulnerability...
\nWhat is off-putting is never in fact that someone likes us; what is frightening is that they seem in danger of having no options other than us, of not being able to survive without us. Manic dependence, not enthusiasm has only ever been the problem..."
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