I learned the best advice for approaching women only after I became happily married:<p>Leave escape room.<p>Whether it&#x27;s a bar or a cubicle, a woman will (in general, according to my wife and other female friends) be aware of being pinned in.  For those not thinking of it, it&#x27;s perfectly natural to stand at the end of a bench seat or in a cubicle opening to talk, but this gives them no &quot;escape&quot; from the situation and increases tension.  Simply standing to the side of that escape path makes the situation less tense.<p>On the generally-male side of things, (drawing purely from my own experiences) I definitely notice when tall people are close to me, but if they stand a little further back I don&#x27;t really notice their height.