I find that I'm the most successful socially when I'm super genuine - meaning I don't care about impressing someone, I'm very comfortable with myself, I'm just trying to listen to the other person and have a quality interaction without caring at all about the outcome
My problem with women has always been 2 parts
1)Simply being too scared to approach - always seeing lots of obstacles in the way and just terrified of a bad response. Also extremely exaggerating women's standards in my head to where I feel like I have no chance anyways
2)Trying way too hard when I am around someone I like. I think a lot of this relates back to my first problem (exaggerating women's standards leads me to try to think of the perfect thing to say instead of just being natural and comfortable with myself) and also because I want it to happen so badly so I'm trying to force it to happen. Not trusting myself leads me to being scared to escalate the situation properly.
What have you guys done to trust yourself better to where you can be very comfortable and natural around women and you still have faith that they will like you?
My problem with women has always been 2 parts
1)Simply being too scared to approach - always seeing lots of obstacles in the way and just terrified of a bad response. Also extremely exaggerating women's standards in my head to where I feel like I have no chance anyways
2)Trying way too hard when I am around someone I like. I think a lot of this relates back to my first problem (exaggerating women's standards leads me to try to think of the perfect thing to say instead of just being natural and comfortable with myself) and also because I want it to happen so badly so I'm trying to force it to happen. Not trusting myself leads me to being scared to escalate the situation properly.
What have you guys done to trust yourself better to where you can be very comfortable and natural around women and you still have faith that they will like you?