Haha I've already suggested that, it's pointless man, what will be will be... only solution is for OP to read the site and get approaching, but no-one can do that for OP...
I can't help thinking of the articles that explain how females lead by emotion e.g. "I have work tomorrow" -> translation "I don't feel like hanging out with you now"... here it's OP not wanting to approach (or not wanting to fix his inner game) and coming up with post-facto justifications to logically "explain" this emotion.
The way to handle these kinds of situations is to ignore the top layer of logical bullshit, and address the underlying emotion. I'll illustrate this with an example from this week
I met my mistress (whom I refer to as Sam #1) to attend a Christmas party at a local bar, which we bought tickets for last month. She sat outside with me in the middle part of the night explaining that our relationship wasn't working for her and she was breaking up with me, with a fair bit of logical bullshit about improving her marriage, being upset there are rumours about us, etc... translation "I feel that I am not important to you and that you are not paying me enough attention, so I'm going to try to cause a drama so that you can demonstrate you care about me by buying into the drama and discussing all this bullshit ad infinitum"... I said sure, whatever works for her... then for the next hour or so I was at pains to outline to her that she is extremely important to me (and she is)... and that I would like to see her improve her marriage and whatnot, but that I'd be around to support her provided it was compatible with my routine and my life goals (this has never changed).
So, at the end of the night, gave her some plausible deniability that we are going to get food before taking her home, despite her protests of going home to hubby as it was late... I find it totally ludicrous that a woman in her 40s would require plausible deniability but plausible deniability works and should always be used... even if it was pretty transparent, by the time she agreed and we had hailed a taxi I asked her if they have vegetarian wraps at McDonalds that she could eat and she said "whatever" so I simply took her home and fucked her.
Anyway the details aren't important but the key point was addressing her emotion of feeling I didn't care about her and she wasn't important to me. That's all it took. With OP I wouldn't buy into all the detailed dramas, the underlying emotion is very simple.
cheers, Ray