Spending a lot of money on the outside helps some people get more accept-ance. It not only improves the package but improves how they feel about themselves. Fixing up the inside is the main part and helps more than the outside, and makes things last. There are many degrees of acceptance. Cold is the absence of heat.
Rejection is the absence of acceptance.
There is such a thing as partial acceptance. You say in effect, I don t accept you at all. You look so super that if I d accept you, you probably wouldn t accept poor slob me. You can say, You seem so sophisticated and adjusted to be-ing single that I feel very vulnerable and uncomfortable with you because this going out is all new to me. But whether you like it or not, you have an expiration date.