Neediness has many forms: The obvious ones, like being overly available, constantly texting a girl you're interested in, giving up doing things and seeing people you enjoy to 'not rock the boat.' Most of us here are aware of those issues and have (hopefully) mostly corrected them.
But there's another side to that coin, equally needy. And that's faking non-neediness--overtly communicating things like "I don't care," making sure you wait X amount of time before texting her back, not texting her even though you feel like it. Calling girls out on bad behavior, not tolerating 'disrespect.' Overanalyzing your behavior and her responses to that behavior.
Why do we do those things? You can rationalize it however you want but it's because you still care. You care about what impression you're making on her. You care about being someone she'll never get over lol. Why do you care? Because you aren't fully capable of quickly realizing other, possibly better options or aren't able to tolerate the pain you may go through to find and capitalize on those options.
Needing abundance to act abundantly is still needy.
I'm not saying not to have boundaries or to tolerate disrespect--but obsessing over either is just you being needy & uncomfortable with the full range of female behavior and how that behavior manifests itself in real life. And, ironically, that very neediness manifests itself in the very behavior you're trying to avoid.
For instance:
But there's another side to that coin, equally needy. And that's faking non-neediness--overtly communicating things like "I don't care," making sure you wait X amount of time before texting her back, not texting her even though you feel like it. Calling girls out on bad behavior, not tolerating 'disrespect.' Overanalyzing your behavior and her responses to that behavior.
Why do we do those things? You can rationalize it however you want but it's because you still care. You care about what impression you're making on her. You care about being someone she'll never get over lol. Why do you care? Because you aren't fully capable of quickly realizing other, possibly better options or aren't able to tolerate the pain you may go through to find and capitalize on those options.
Needing abundance to act abundantly is still needy.
I'm not saying not to have boundaries or to tolerate disrespect--but obsessing over either is just you being needy & uncomfortable with the full range of female behavior and how that behavior manifests itself in real life. And, ironically, that very neediness manifests itself in the very behavior you're trying to avoid.
For instance:
- Hot, young girls are flaky. There is nothing you can 'do' to keep that from happening. The best way to prevent flakiness is not to care if she flakes. Have a contingency plan that's equally attractive to you--hope she flakes.
- Most girls are seeing other guys in some way, shape, or form. That's life. The best way to be the more attractive option is not to care. What, are you trying to marry some girl you just met the past couple months? Are you not seeing other girls--if not why.
- Being able to lead girls is essential. But how do you communicate that you're someone worth following? By not caring if any one person in particular follows you where you're going. If you were throwing the best party ever and you invited someone to join that party, would you care if they didn't want to come? Fvck no, you'd just be like, "Their loss," if you even noticed at all.
- Are fun to be around. If I'm not having fun, who cares?
- They don't disrupt me from pursuing my goals. Ideally they'd help me toward those goals, and those people take higher priority, but I can manage that on my own. As long as they stay out of my way, then no biggie.
- They don't pose a threat to my physical or financial well being or the well being of anyone I love or care about.
- They don't bring negativity into my life. They can be the most down, depressed person ever but they damn sure aren't bringing that into their interaction with me.
- I give my time to the people who bring me the most happiness & positivity. At this point, I have a pretty clear idea of who & what my priorities are. The only way for new people to climb that ladder are to bring more value than currently existing options. I don't need a girl to adhere to some script I have in my head of 'an ideal female partner'--but if she wants to be a priority in my life she better up the ante