WOW I just wrote the BEST reply to this and it logged me out during, now it's gone. I will try to remember, but damn I was in a flow.
This is definitely auto rejection. You connected to her and failed to escalate, she then justifies the interaction as plutonic.
I had a similar situation months ago with a girl.. I gamed her incredibly, had an incredible connection, but ended up getting cock blocked harder than you can believe right before I started escalating. She justified the interaction in the same way even though I KNOW for a fact she was attracted. Since then I have friendzoned her after realizing what happened. We have hung out and talked about the interaction, she remembers every little detail and highlights points where she had attraction spikes. This is not something you remember from a plutonic interaction that meant nothing.
Ever still, she will never admit it. I have enough experience to know what happened, where I FAILED and why she says what she says, even if she doesn't. Now all that said, attraction is still clearly there and I believe can be brought back in a specific rare situation. This situation appears to me as a party/group event where she sees my value and how women are clearly attracted to me. I would have to isolate in a seduction location, build IMMENSE amounts of sexual tension and escalate as soon as I see a window. I will still hit LMR, cut I feel as long as I reinitiated the original feelings and she could justify them as "new" or "it just happened" I would be able to do it. MOST likely this scenerio would not play out. This is completely unrealistic and would need tons of assistance from the universe to play out correctly. (I believe some shit is beyond our control and you will hear people in pickup talk about the "universe" which gives us lessons and throws challenges in our path while we pursue the meaning of life)
I since have moved on from this girl completely, even though we are friends, I invite her out every so often. I have had stronger connections, and slept with hotter higher value women than her, I now look back at our interaction as trivial and silly. I did however learn a ton about auto-rejection and missing escalation windows. It even happened to me after this with other girls, I learned and learned and now can share this information with others.
I suggest you move on and learn to game many girls. You will have so many interactions like this, and close calls until stuff starts to align and you *head slap* into the next level. Start by reading one of my beginner posts it should help you realize a few things.
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