I've dabbled with pua methods for years with streaks of success. I never took it real seriously until now though. I have been generally blessed with being tall and athletic as well as always hanging around the "popular" crowds. That being said in my teen years I was extremely shy and hardly dated. The only girls I fooled around with girls who basically came on to me. I was way too focused with sports and was plagued with nice guy syndrome lol. Once I hit 20 I started reading some pua material and things went extremely well. Unfortunately, I got content with just hooking up with one girl a week, then one girl a month and so on. Eventually I was back in the same place I was before. Some other things (Family Issues) that were once unimaginable to me occured and it really wrecked my self confidence. To sum everything up I basically stopped dating for 2 years as I battled with what was certainly some form of depression. I finally decided to make a change, so I swallowed a lot of pride, admitted I had a problem and dedicated my life to attracting women. I picked up some material by David Wygant and it really helped my inner game. I hit the gym hard and joined clubs that I never would have before. My increase in confidence has been amazing and I generally go on a date or two a week now. I still have setbacks though, today for instance I had a huge setback. A girl I work with, who I had formed a pretty good friendship with mentioned something to me that caught me off guard. I have been working ridiculously long hours recently (70 hours/week) and have been experiencing mental fatigue (which is terrible for your game too!). I sat by this girl, who is attractive however I am not turned on by her, for about a year. We gossiped a lot and it was nice to have a female to joke around with and not have any sexual tension with. She got transfered to another division about a month ago and we really haven't stayed in touch besides the occasional hey as we pass eachother at the office. Today I was exceptionally out of it, I had been on the phones for 12 hours straight. Anyways, I was thinking of a trade in my head and going over all of the numbers as I was walking to my desk. As I passed her, she gave me a weird look and said quite loudly to herself "akward". I wouldn't have been offended had she smiled or laughed. But she did it in a way that seemed like I was just some weirdo and not someone she knew well and was just having a bad day. There's no doubt I indeed looked akward akin to John Nash from a beautiful mind lol. However, I was confused by her response and even though I'm not sexually attracted to her in any way at all, it threw me off as I realized that perhaps I didn't have as close of a friendship as I though I had with her. I shrugged it off and had a great rest of the day. For that I am proud, but it did play mind games with me for an hour or so. I still need to improve on little instances like that. I apologize for the lengthy message but sometimes it's just good to vent ..... I look forward to contributing on here.