9. “You know that so many guys want to ask you out, right?” Hint about a potential boyfriend.
“Even if it’s a lie, it makes me feel a little bit better and happier,” grins one Japanese woman in her 20s. Give her the illusion that there’s a pool of potential boyfriends waiting for her to become single again. She may or may not believe you, but factual integrity doesn’t matter as much as the need to uplift her spirits. Besides, it’s true that there’s at least one person–you–wanting to be her boyfriend.