Smaller dude desperately seeking petite partner

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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I like cute women — tiny, petite, so light you could pick them up off the floor without breaking your back. These women are hard to find in Winnipeg. I have better luck in Thailand and other Asian countries when I travel, but these women wouldn’t transplant well.

Let’s get it right out there: I am a short man, so petite women make me feel big and strong by comparison. So here I am with a big career in Winnipeg, plus the ability to fly anywhere, and I’d like to have a tiny Asian wife and lover, but I don’t know how to go about it.

I’m not about to import a wife through an agency — that’s gross. I really don’t know what to do.

— In a Quandary, Winnipeg

Dear Quandary: You need to start getting to know the Asian arts and cultural groups and communities in Winnipeg. You could make donations and volunteer your services for events and festivals to get to know people before you even start looking for a girlfriend or wife. Show what you are worth as a human being, and that you are interested in learning about the culture from “back home.” Make some real friends with Asian people transplanted here.

Once you start getting to know the Winnipeg groups and become an involved member, you will slowly start to feel people’s friendships. From then on, you can start to look around for ladies’ eyes that might be twinkling for you — but don’t go asking anyone to set you up.

People are often asking me to match them up, which is not the purpose of this column. But I can advise them on how to get into the right crowd. You might enjoy the following letter from a person who just wrote with a different match-up problem:

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I’m an executive secretary in my early 30s with more than 10 years’ experience. I’m still single. I meet a lot of businessmen and I see the best of the best going through the doors to my boss’s office.

I want a man with more than one company (for security), and it turns me on if he has international holdings. I guess you could say I respect the wealthy man who is fully involved with his businesses. But often, these guys are married to women who come from rich families. Or they are going out with younger arm candy, which makes them feel more attractive.

What do I have to offer? I’m smart, funny, well-educated, a painter (which would travel anywhere) and a singer who will get up and make my guy proud at a party by singing with the live band.

I look younger than my age, I’m sexual and physically fit, interested in sports, and I dress well and wear real diamonds in my ears. Unfortunately, less wealthy men are interested in me. I have never figured out why I am only attracted to rich men. Can you explain?

— A Rich Man’s Perfect Match, Downtown Condo

Dear Rich Man’s Match: I knew a woman who used to date wealthy men only and when girlfriends hinted she was a gold-digger, she used to say, “I am turned on by power, and with power usually goes money.”

Is it power that gives you a thrill? Do you like to see the power your man wields over his companies and employees? Do you like to meet others in the power-people set, who are his friends? Does name-dropping cause your diamond studded ears to prick up?

Let’s look at your background: did you start out poor as a kid and later vow to be safe from that — as far away from poverty as you could possibly get? Or did you maybe grow up in a situation of wealth and can’t imagine the insult of falling out of that world? If you don’t have a great-paying career, then latching onto a powerful rich man is another way to live at the top.

Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6.

Maureen Scurfield
Advice columnist

Maureen Scurfield writes the Miss Lonelyhearts advice column.

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