olga, I'm about the same today. No real improvement.
Eva, Intimidating can be great when you want to be or when the situation calls for it. I found out I was unintentionally intimidating. Who, me? Yeah, you, goilie.
Intentionally intimidating story: I was in my twenties and wearing a particularly stunning outfit. I was waiting on the subway platform for a train. A young man kept bothering me. I walked away. He followed me. He wouldn't leave me alone. I finally said, "Beat it, buster, or you'll end up on the tracks." He put his hands up in the air and backed off. Snarl. He was messing withe the wrong girlchik.