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You had me up until the bolded point. 'Freezing her out' for a week is incongruent with reframing the situation as him rejecting her. In fact, it will come off as pouting behaviour ("you did something I don't like therefore I'll ignore you/not msg you"). If he truly was unphazed by the "lets be friends" inference he'd continue talking to her as normal rather than going quiet. Also, she already has low investment in him, breaking rapport with her at this crucial time will likely be counterproductive to creating more attraction.
That wasn't meant to be bold. sorry about that. A full 7 days may be to long but 4 to 5 days is adequate. Rapport has been lost and the connection has been broken. Your agreeing with her that you do not have feelings for her and saying you didn't want to be the bad guy. By ignoring her for a few days, it gives her time to reflect on her choices. It gives her time to thnk about him, the times she had with him and most importantly why did he not LIKE her, why did he feel that way. It also gives her time to wonder if he is with another girl. "does someone else have his attention" this will drive her crazy. If you instantly agree and keep talking your doing 2 bad things.
1) your entering the friends zone- we don't want that
2) by talking to her you do not give her a chance to wonder what the F just happen.
We want to seem in high demand. We want to give her time to think and reflect. If we continue talking nothing changes. It's gives the impression he likes me sooooo much that even after I break up with him he still wants to talk to me. Your not pouting if you flip the table, you agree there is nothing between you two the only reason to keep talking is to be friends. Now you would be pouting saying "that's fucked up" or acting like an ass and then stop talking. By not talking for a few days after flipping the tables it gives the impression you could give two shits. This creates a desire and a mystery to her. You want things to be sexually comfortable with her, you want her to call you when she's horny for casual sex. Only actions change women feelings, never ever try to talk to a girl about feelings and you will only make things awkward if you try to convince her that she does like you by talking her into it.
That's a large presupposition you're making, that she's invested in him. Women get validation from all sorts of places, including having not just one, but many men on the lamb to which they can get their validation fix from. You don't freeze out somebody who has low investment in you because you're easily replaceable. It'd be one thing if she was interested in being with him and she did something that displeased him, but another altogether going all aloof and/or elusive on a girl who believes you have low value. This is why I bolded the statement you made, and why I think it'd be in error to freeze her out. She's already indicated that she doesn't see him as a potential suitor, at least right now, it is naive to think that by him not talking to her for a bit would somehow make her re-think her position.
The only thing I would suggest as an alternative is to next her (disappear for a while, off the radar) and re-approach her at some later point in time such as months or even a year as 're-invented'.
There's another glaring issue I see with your approach. Unless this chick is seriously jaded, she's well aware that this guy likes her based on his previous behavior. For him to all of a sudden 'flip the script' by acting in a different way will likely come off as a playing games and only make her feel more justified in her decision to not see him as a romantic interest.
you remember being a kid and having tons of toys. You get the new toy and you stop playing with your old toys until that old toy is taken from you and then you want it back? Same idea behind my approach turn low investment into high investment. If you continue acting the same, expecting different results,that is the deffintion of insanity. What do you gain by continuing to act the same? By not talking to her for a few days it breaks the routine. Anytime a routine is broken you think about that routine i.e i didnt take a crap today. what has changed. In this case he agreed with me and stop talking to me, it gives her time to think. It gives her time to miss him.
Now you make a great point by saying his behavior clearly shows signs that he likes her. However it takes two to tango and she was receptive to his advancements. Which gave him every indication that she likes him. He even admits that she said I know this is out of left field, the same can apply to him as well, why is okay for her to be that way but not okay for him?. This is also IMO the best way to handle this scenario. I would like to hear,how you would handle this situation. What would your game plan be?