Ladies, Are You Looking for Love in Boston? Try Suffolk Law

The Boston Globe runs an advice column called Love Letters. It’s no Pls Hndle Thx, but it does get a different kind of questioner than we do here at ATL. This week, the love seeker is a lawyer — and he is understandably quite proud of that fact. Perhaps there are ladies who read Above the Law who would like to give him a call? Here’s the lead in to his question:

I’m a 25 year old attorney who graduated from Suffolk Law last year and hopes to get into politics some day. Aside from my career aspirations I am desperately looking for a girl who I can sweep off her feet and live happily ever after. I mean, I have never had a problem finding pretty girls and have always been a sucker for intellectuals like myself.

But wait, there’s more. This Suffolk Law intellectual doesn’t want to sweep just any girl off of her feet. She must be the right kind of girl:

But what I have found repeatedly is that I always run into two types of women; the feminist types who hate being treated like a lady (hold doors, pay for dinner, walk on the outside of the curb, etc.) and put their careers before anything or anyone else. Then there are the girls who use me because I have a good career and are only interested in what I can do for them (concerts, purses, jewelry, all within 3 weeks of the relationship) but never get emotionally attached.

Okay, buddy, let me give you a couple of tips. First, treating a girl “like a lady” is a lot easier if you don’t condescend to her; avoid calling her a “feminist type.” Second, the law is a service industry. Some ladies think that you have incorporated that knowledge into your personal life. Get with the program.
After the jump, our Suffolk brother just gets disgusting.


Despite this guy’s apparent inability to find a quality date, he’s not giving up. He’s a “hopeless romantic.”

I have always called myself a hopeless romantic because I believe that for all the money in the world it is only as good as the one you can share it with. More or less, I want to love and be loved. I want to take a walk, look at the stars, and get lost in the moment. I want to make a girl a romantic dinner and go out for ice cream. A girl who I can bring lunch to at work just because it’s a Tuesday. A girl who likes it when little notes are left in her car and apartment – just to brighten her day…
Where are these girls, the ones who want to truly love and be loved? The ones who measures life not in minutes, money, or promotions but in moments? Is it that in the politically correct world we live in today is there finally no room for a hopeless romantic?

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Thank God I don’t have diabetes, because those paragraphs were so sweet they surely would have killed me.
Sorry, I skipped a bit during my sugar high. Here’s the money quote:

Meredith, I don’t consider myself clingy (40 hours work week + as a attorney) I am just someone who is looking for the real deal and not just a facade of love. You know?

Remember that bit where he said he had a “good career”? Putting it all together, we’ve got a recent graduate from Suffolk Law who describes his time based on a standard work week instead of billable hours. Stealth layoffs, anyone?
He sure sounds like a winner if you are a “real” girl. You know, a girl who is not a feminist and who doesn’t particularly care if your man has a job in six months.
(For columnist Meredith Goldstein’s response to the writer, as well as almost 300 reader comments, see the Boston Globe link below.)
I want to sweep a lady off her feet [Boston Globe]

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