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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with the people who talk about the "package". The thing is it doesn't matter so much if you have the package, it matters how you convey that.  You have to be"human" sometimes. If you are the kind to ramble on about your au pair and vacations in italy and bora bora, people are going to be turned off. I understand, this may be your life and you have every right not to hide it but social decorum calls for modesty. There is a one-uppance attitude prevalent in this area that I never fail to notice. People don't listen anymore, they just wait until you finish talking so they can chime in with something similar or better they have going on. So you may be at dinner with a group of friends and the entire meal conversation oozes this subtle competitiveness that makes one shudder.

If you show a genuine interest in people's lives, they will respond to you. I have a "close friend" who, very often, forgets details about my life. She asks but never takes note. So she ends up repeating wrong stats over and over again, despite being corrected. "No, my husband is NOT from Oregon, bitch!, we've been through this" :roll:.  Or I mention something and she says oh I never knew that. REALLY???, we've talked about this many times before. So guess what? our closeness is slowly declining. [/quote]

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