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After months (or a lifetime if you wish) of breaking my head trying to understand why I fail with girls and why at the same time average guys think, because of looks alone, that I should be awesome - I stumbled into something.
I went out to the beach with some friends and two things happened:
1) a girl in our group kept touching my chest, telling me I'm "hot" and so on. This was so overt that it blindsided me and so I deflected her advances like a scared toddler for lack of a better answer. Later I was told she had been for real: she did have a boyfriend but wanted to get a kick out of having sex with me.
2) a girl I had met online came to our group to talk to me, but I got tense, staggered, she lost interest and another friend butted in and lead her - all this within seconds.
I just had a conversation with this friend about what happened and he saw me stagger in both cases - also had seen the second girl lose interest just the way I saw it.
This was good because this guy turned out to have been banging dozens of girls over the last years and, unlike the random guys who think I should be "awesome with girls", he was standing right there seeing what happened and how I failed.
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I read the articles about fundamentals and chasing/investment (amongst others) and I understand them.
. . . but i see that 75% of the times I'm overly anxious, come across unatural (most likely "unconfident" as my friend put it) and end up:
- investing too much, leaning in, offering help, pumping my value for no reason at all, talking too much, etc. . .
- deflecting the conversation topic from "you and me" to something boring, some problem no one cares about, whatever...
- breaking circle, offering to introduce her to friends (wtf?!)
- at odds with sexual tension and defusing it
I basically lose track of leading and everything else I should be doing - I just reset to beating around the bush over and over and over.
For my friend it's very easy to "be himself" and "be confident" - after all he knows he can get girls 'cause well. . . he already gets them.
. . .but my gut reaction is very strong, like a beginner boxer who knows he should not flinch and still does it.
So what the hell do I do? Meeting girls right and left for another year with 0 results?
Maybe it was necessary, but from now on it sounds like I should be more efficient.
Maybe if I focus on just a couple things at the time?
I went out to the beach with some friends and two things happened:
1) a girl in our group kept touching my chest, telling me I'm "hot" and so on. This was so overt that it blindsided me and so I deflected her advances like a scared toddler for lack of a better answer. Later I was told she had been for real: she did have a boyfriend but wanted to get a kick out of having sex with me.
2) a girl I had met online came to our group to talk to me, but I got tense, staggered, she lost interest and another friend butted in and lead her - all this within seconds.
I just had a conversation with this friend about what happened and he saw me stagger in both cases - also had seen the second girl lose interest just the way I saw it.
This was good because this guy turned out to have been banging dozens of girls over the last years and, unlike the random guys who think I should be "awesome with girls", he was standing right there seeing what happened and how I failed.
___________
I read the articles about fundamentals and chasing/investment (amongst others) and I understand them.
. . . but i see that 75% of the times I'm overly anxious, come across unatural (most likely "unconfident" as my friend put it) and end up:
- investing too much, leaning in, offering help, pumping my value for no reason at all, talking too much, etc. . .
- deflecting the conversation topic from "you and me" to something boring, some problem no one cares about, whatever...
- breaking circle, offering to introduce her to friends (wtf?!)
- at odds with sexual tension and defusing it
I basically lose track of leading and everything else I should be doing - I just reset to beating around the bush over and over and over.
For my friend it's very easy to "be himself" and "be confident" - after all he knows he can get girls 'cause well. . . he already gets them.
. . .but my gut reaction is very strong, like a beginner boxer who knows he should not flinch and still does it.
So what the hell do I do? Meeting girls right and left for another year with 0 results?
Maybe it was necessary, but from now on it sounds like I should be more efficient.
Maybe if I focus on just a couple things at the time?