| So ive recently been doing a lot of opening, and been pretty successful getting contacts, but i swear it is midgame that is by far the most challenging.
I noticed there is a lot of really good information about how to frame yourself in a way that increases your value, but for me the most tension lies in coming across in a way that is on one hand high value, yet on the other in a way that is natural for yourself because:
If you are only focused on coming across in an artificial way to create value, over time it becomes a chore to constantly maintain that framework, as well as a guilt that the other person doesn't really 'know' you
but if you only come across as yourself, even if you do it in a confident way, you might get to know that girl well but fail to establish sexual feelings. Seriously, this second problem is my main issue and i believe many others rather than anything else.
It's not that you are low value - or you don't have confidence - they will boast about their time with you to their friends, but they just dont want to be sexual about it. Some say this is not so bad, because then their friends can be used as a pivot, but control starts to be taken out of your hands as to when and who you meet from their circle.
I've recently had a terrible example of this. I took this pretty Japanese girl out id met in the library, constantly built rapport through both verbal and physical contact, and although she was happy to hold my hand, and i kissed her when she got on the bus to go somewhere for her holidays - (through text afterwards she'd always respond to me pretty positively) but after flirting a bit i asked directly if she was interested, and she said 'just as friends but she was happy that i liked her.'
Out of all the different stages of pic up, these situations can be the most mentally devastating, because you've already put a lot of emotional investment, you are confident because things are progressing, then suddenly - bam. you are left wondering what the fuck went wrong. And this self doubt is not the ' should of been more confident' - you were confident or 'i should of been more value creating' - you did create value. It's the kind of doubt that makes you feel like there is something intrinsically wrong with yourself.
You are left with this quagmire: "how do you begin doing it all over again, without demonizing women as illogical sex objects - which while gives you an immunity to getting rejected because 'dey are stupod, therefore did not reject you for logical reasons = you are bullet proof...
...yet by doing so the whole thing becomes depressing, because you begin framing your relationship and the other girl within a mathematical formula of value creating, rather than content state of feeling 'naturally connected?
Sorry for this long post!
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