[QUOTE=Gogreen;2256698]On top of those plutonic arrangement seeking SBs.
For those SD's with SO's, are you guys upfront with being married and needing discretion? I don't know what it is but lately it seems in my market all the potentials are not wanting to deal with a married guy. My game doesn't seem to be the problem, but I am upfront that I'm married, have no intention of leaving and need discretion. The initial conversations go fine but once the subject of being married comes up, they back away and often say they believe in marriage's sanctity and can't proceed. Granted many of them seem like first-timers. Maybe I just got to be more patient and wait til they deal with some of the creepy single SD's and see stable married SD's can be a good option too. Just wanted to vent a little and take the pulse elsewhere.[/QUOTE]I'm not married but have a long term GF. I really don't discuss it at all with most of them, and I typically don't ask about their non-SD dating activities. In a few cases I have and I've found they can sometimes be really cool about everything. Usually I would only open up about my private life after getting to know them better. For example, one of my girls was 18, but she was the oldest of many sisters and I quickly found out she had the maturity and level-headedness that most 35 year olds don't have. I can spot high-achieving people a mile away and she is the type that will actually amount to something in her career later. So I decided to open up to her about my own situation and I let her know she should feel free to talk to me about her boyfriends her age if she wants to, and she certainly did. It's amazing what you can learn about their lifestyle from insider intel like that.
She was not really typical of my preferred type, though. I prefer the "true" SBs -- the ones that are not looking for per-date payment as much as they just have a thing for older successful men and want a boyfriend that fits that criteria. They aren't necessarily expecting a multi-millionaire as much as someone who can take care of them to the point they could have a nice life without working at all. What they really have in mind varies from girl to girl, but to some of them, this means if they are your SB they would be moving in with you sometime soon. Yeah I know, yikes. Or minimum they are expecting to be set up in an apartment long enough to see where things go. I think this may be the type you've been encountering. Those are the types that will care if you're married, because it immediately means they are excluded from "the jackpot" (potentially finding a successful guy they really enjoy being with, marrying him and having security going forward whether they stay married or not). They know that if you're married, it means they will have to adjust their schedule to accommodate yours more often than not (you're going to say "sorry I can't see you" when they need someone to cry or complain about life to. Your emotional support energy is already being consumed by someone else and you're not available in that sense).
But then again there are completely different categories of girls. As Hollywood said, some of them will PREFER married guys, because they may already be in love with someone themselves, and just need extra sources of easy income and the ego stroking they get from being an SB, but they don't want a clinger or someone interfering with the rest of their social life.
Then there are UTR girls and escorts. They couldn't care less because it's a per-date transaction with them.
It just depends on what kind of girl you're going after. The spectrum of types of girls you'll encounter can be dizzying. If you're consistently meeting one type, or seeing recurring patterns in their response or behavior, there may be something in your profile that's attracting only that type, or perhaps it could be your conversational approach that is resulting in a pattern.
One thing I've always tried to do is find ways of making my profile appealing (or at least non-objectionable) while remaining generic. In other words avoid too much specificity. I learned a long time ago to use the same strategy in online civy dating. For example, if I write in my profile that I'm looking for someone for a LTR, it's a bad idea because there are going to be some girls who read it who were just looking for a fun fuck buddy, and if they're hot then I'm all in (in more ways than one). However, if I write "I'm not looking for anything serious" I might repel girls who are looking for something serious. But wait, just because they ARE looking for something serious doesn't mean that they couldn't potentially find themselves hooking up for some casual sex. What they set out to find and what they end up with are often not the same thing.
It all comes down to marketing yourself really. If you see a common pattern in the prospects you're attracting, and they aren't what you want, change your tactic for attracting them.