Hi c1t - I hear what you are saying!! I am not dating anyone but I do get alot of male attention at my job because I work with mostly men, and it actually does give me an ego boost, one that I desperately needed. I feel silly to admit it, because i like to believe that my self worth doesn't ultimately come from male attention, but I am trying to lighten up a bit and in that respect I guess there is no harm in feeling that way. Seems that it is human nature, or something ilke that. In my case, by the time my H left me my self esteem had really plummeted and I had lost alot of "me" (no wonder we fell apart!!) So GAL and detaching will, I guess, make a LBS more attractive for a number of reasons, but one could be that the LBS will suddenly seem alot more like the person that had originally captured the WAS's heart - a person who was not at all needy, ya know? Sorry to jump in on your reply to lmdi but I just identified with the topic!