Quote: "Why is it vital to have HER ask to be official with each other?"
....because when MOST women ask "YOU" for a commitment (as opposed to the other way around), that's the closest you'll usually ever come to seeing them display the REAL depth of whatever degree of desire that they may have to be with you.
Understand that a woman's usual strategy for getting what she wants is to be indirect, while ours is usually to be direct.
To expound on this:
When operating within the confines of standard, Western-World relationship dynamics---a woman's method for getting what she wants from a you (or practically ANY man she's interested in)---is by giving you subtle hints, consistently enticing you with her sexuality, or by gradually monopolizing your time to the point whereas your opportunities for meeting and engaging gets reduced by default due to all the time you find yourself spending with "her".
Indeed, most women "prefer" to entice YOU into a relationship by "indirect" means because that gives them plausible deniability should the subject ever come up afterwards as to "who" wanted to be in an exclusive relationship more----you or her.
So...when you can actually out-wait and out-woo a woman to the point where "she's"the one that "breaks down" and asks YOU for the relationship first----then you have succeeded in forcing HER to come out of her comfort zone and be "direct" with you about HER intentions.
And whenever you can raise a woman's degree of desire for you to the point where she's the one that "puts all her cards out on the table" in plain site, that's when you've successfully turned those tables on her and have become "The Prize" and she has become "The Pursuer".
And since all romantic relationships are actually low-key "power struggles"---this is when you, as the man, have become the one who has assumed the most powerful position in the relationship.
And THIS is exactly the position you NEED to be in---in order to increase your chances of having the kind of relationship with a woman wherein you're consistently looked up to with respect---as opposed to eventually being looked down on out of disrespect.
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