I feel an overwhelming urge to make fun of Jaxin's seasoning, but will for the moment refrain. Know that it is only because I cannot find witty enough words to speak of his utter lack of spice and zest.
My sticking points are legion. First and foremost, because I've made an attempt to distance myself from Game for a while, I rarely approach. This isn't really approach anxiety; if I wanted to make an effort, I could, and I would do a damned fine job. In fact, Shaft and I will likely be heading out for a New Years Player's Bash. If you're in the Edmonton area and interested in coming along, feel free to drop me a PM. But at present, I'm content with how my romantic life is situated. I'm involved in an open relationship with an FPUA, and she's really all I have time for at the moment. With work and my other responsibilities, having multiple long-terms just doesn't make much sense right now.
Past that, I've got a nasty case of close anxiety. I enjoy the interaction, we bring it to a sexual place, everything is going great, I know what needs to happen, but at the same time I don't want to deal with the very personal rejection that is rejection on the close. I know that it can be worked past, plowed through, but in a lot of cases, I'm just not comfortable enough in the state of the interaction that I'm confident going for close. I'm in a perpetual state of mid-game.
Also, I have a tendency to be too up-front about game. Because it's something that interests me, and because it's a form of chick-crack all by itself, my conversations sometimes move into game as a topic. We move into meta-game; I'm talking about game within my game. Most of the time, if I start to get uncomfortable going for the close, this happens, and the interaction turns into a strange sort of question-and-answer period.
I'm aware of them, though, and I'm trying to fix them.
It's strange, but the one time I've had a _real_ issue in my game, I brought it up here, and I never got a reply on it. I ended up fixing the problem myself (as I will with those listed above). So I don't usually talk about my sticking points here. I feel like a priest bringing a question of faith to his parishioners. Not that I think of Game as a religion or anything...