I've been aware to varying degrees since I was 17. I figured certain things out talking with my friends and experimenting and learning about girls but I never felt the need to have a girlfriend, lots of guys were desperate for womens validation but I never was from a very young age, I wanted them but I didn't need a girlfriend or need their validation. Even though I figured some things out on my own and I'd do great approaching girls in bars or in isolated times, when I was sober or at school I just didn't/couldn't, the possiblity of rejection in a broad social circle was not something I feared.You seem quite comfortable with this. Can I ask, how long have you been aware of "the game"?
When I was in a LTR I still banged other girls and maintained my attractiveness to girls and connections with friends, from the beginning I straight up told my girlfriend I liked her but I'd leave in a heartbeat if she got out of line and that I wouldn't ditch my friends for her. She was completely in love with me and submissive to me, I had a high social value and could do a lot for her, then we moved away I lost my social circle wasn't really working in a standard 9-5 job, was working from home and she was making more money then I was. I went complete AFC, and the roles changed and I was on the outs not knowing what to do. For a while I was completely ignorant to the game after, it was like baby steps I had to re-learn everything I knew when I was younger and build on that as well. I'd have some breakthrough's but then still set backs, and I'd still freeze up with girls that I thought were high value and had long term potential. It takes a while, and you have to practice, and keep re-learning and looking back and overall working on you. Luckily I am super competitive and have lots of goals and other things going for me that I focus on. The biggest change was just learning to be suave, I never really was past a short period of time or a drunken nigh at times I would be and would talk to girls online or through text and knew how to be descriptive and stimulate their mind sexually, but I completely went away from that and was trying to be blunt and not easing things along outside of that. I think recently I put it all together, and realized looking back how many girls were disappointed because I was just like "lets do sex" and I'll be affectionate then just turn it off, I expected it to be spontaneous but you have to build it up in women, you have to plant the seeds and be patient. Always keep that in mind, women want the process, so at first especially you have to realize they want to be seduced, they want to feel open and not be judged sexually and experience that but you have to be subtle about it and dance around it piquing their interest. Then, once they put you in the frame of a guy who gets it, who will be considerate to their needs (in their mind) who will lie to them and make them feel good in the right ways (lets be honest all women want that above honesty and frankness) and let them be a "slut" without feeling or being judged as a "slut" then they'll give themselves to you. Women who date or accept guys who are just good looking laugh at them behind their back and joke about them with friends, guys who get it, regardless of how they look physically will get gushing reviews by girls, because you've latched onto the ability to understand what women want, you understand and play the game which is primarily at the psychological/social level.