[Ovid]

Women love to talk. If you get them started, most of them can go for hours. I like to let them run for a bit sometimes, because it means I don't have to do anything for a few minutes, and at the end of it, she feels closer/more connected to me, because she's just told me all about her grandma's dog, or whatever. She has positive feelings about Grandma and her dog, and now she has warm feelings towards me, because she's shared this. Afterwards, her thoughts are more akin to "he's a great guy" than "he's this guy who approached me out of the blue and maybe he's dangerous (or worse, creepy.) If you let her talk too much about boring crap, the likelihood of ending up as her new best friend is much greater, but in the initial approach or date it can be useful, to let her build herself some comfort, so to speak. I think the key to harnessing this is to keep "comfort" from overriding "attraction." Both are necessary, but they aren't interchangeable.