Do pictures of your ex girlfriend make you more marketable to women?

Dear Aden ask@askaden.com


So I am hoping you can offer a little insight into a question I have been going back and fourth on for a few months. I am not a “player” but over the last 2 or 3 years I have had 4 good relationships with girls, great fun super hot girls. During my relationships we have had some very cool times, trips to the beach, skydiving, horseback riding ext. My question is I have some really great pictures from all my fun adventures with my ex girlfriends. Years ago my buddy told me that women like guys who have dated good looking women and that by having those pictures I look more marketable to women. On top of that, every time I have a girl over they usually make a bee-line for the pictures and always have positive comments, but they also ask “who is that” which is awkward. What should I do about the pictures with my exes in them do they make me more marketable to women? Should I keep them all, reduce them or none at all? Thanks for listening.
-Charlie


Dear Charlie,
WWJD?
No, I am not talking about the son of god. What Would James Do? As in James, James Bond.

James Bond, now there is a guy who has you beat on “adventures” with hot women but you would never see his flat filled with pictures of it James knew that it was him and not pictures that made him more marketable to women. When I think of your question I think of the old saying “People with money, don’t talk about money” If you go to a rich friends house do they have pictures of money lying around? Your friend was right, women do like guys that have dated good looking women, but a woman has senses that a man will never comprehend, she can smell it on you. Having pictures lying around does not say you dated hot women, it does not make you more marketable to women, it says you had a handful of times where you were around hot women and you felt it was so special you needed to take a picture.
My advice is to put the photos in storage, be more of a mystery, let her find out that you have done cool things little by little by her asking you questions. Trust me, she will know by your confidence that you are dateable; having pictures of your former flames up is creepy. As your relationship with a girl progresses put pictures of you and her up, that is a great barometer that you are growing committed to her. I had a friend with an amazing multi million dollar house. When he met girls he would wait months to ever have them over, his questions were always about her and when his dates asked him about himself he answered as short as possible and redirected back to her. He never talked about his past, and this guy paid to fly a MIG in Russia, he never talked about his exes, he dated plenty o amazing women one of them is featured von TMZ at least once a month (on second thought, that’s not good). Guess what? He did great, better than great, the less he said the more his mystique grew. It became an urban legend amongst single women that if he let them see his house they had conquered him. He has great roomers going around about him that other men would pay a PR rep thousands for. All by being mysterious.
Sometimes the best spear is the one you don’t throw; Take down the pictures.
Hope that helps,
-A.