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Whoa, easy there. The advice you've received from your brothers above is only applicable to your so-called "girlfriends". The day you meet "wife material", you'd better tell her how you feel about her, or you are almost guaranteed to lose her. Just a word of caution. I suggest you venture into womens' websites and see for yourself how many of them (in LTRs) complain that their men haven't confirmed their feelings and they want to leave.
It's obvious the girl probably saw you as a brotherly/friendly figure, so she was uncomfortable when she found out you liked her. Either that, or she doesn't want any serious relationships right now. Yes you can manipulate her into returning to you because she is attached to you, but she will never like you in that way. She just loves your company and may like it enough to become your gf so you'll be nice to her again. That's not a good way to start a relationship though.
do not follow this advice for the love of god. the day you meet "wife material" is the day you treat her just like any other girl unless you want her gone in 60 seconds. there are stages, you see. in the attraction stage (which is by default what you're in the day you meet a girl) you never tell her how you feel until she tells you first. you have to make her chase you and give her just enough attention to keep her from giving up. then eventually she will bring up her desire to form a long term relationship and you can agree and show her affection and whatnot.
for example: OP, this very girl we're talking about could have been wife material, but you were too friendly too early on and you confirmed to her that you liked her. so you got friend-zoned. simply laughing and saying you didn't like her to her face would have upped your value in her eyes and made her much more attracted to you.
so don't listen to younglady here. showing affection is necessary once you are in a LTR, but it's often incredibly harmful before that point.
what you need to do is cut out the friendliness with this girl. say you're not really interested in being pals with her and stop hanging out with her so much. hit on other pretty girls in front of her. talk about how beautiful one of her friends is. hell, flirt with her friends even. you need to raise your value in her eyes and you need to communicate attraction to her rather than friendship. if she doesn't bite, move on and don't make the same mistakes with the next girl.
remember: build attraction first, then friendship and comfort once she is asking you to be in the relationship. that doesn't mean be an asshole, mind you. it just means don't be around all the time.