...puff out your chest, grit your teeth, clench fists and furrow that brow.
Now is the time you gotta be a MAN, 'slinger. Show no fear whatsoever - Lord knows they can sense it - and pull her into it all the way.
And - do not back down. Not an inch. Be sensitive, but absolute in your resolve. She will gaze up at you with admiration and awe.
That - or kick yer sorry butt all the way back home, never to be heard from again.