mango of light
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I'm 31 and I think I'm starting to enter mid-life crisis. I am coming to the realization that my SMV as a man is going up as I develop myself physically, psychologically and professionally. This isn't something I accounted for in my 20s, and I may have made some commitments that I'm not sure how I feel about anymore.
So, I'm talking to this girl, she's a solid 7 but almost at the age she'll be entering her epiphany phase. She claims to have trauma, complex PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and a whole slew of other acronyms. I've been conducting some experiments and using the opportunity to improve my Game, without much emotional investment. I'm learning.
The details are as follows:
She's always taken good care not to give me an IOI as if that would be a sin, and she's reluctantly given me an LJBF rejection a couple of times, saying that right now she only wants to be my friend, but that in the future she doesn't know what could happen. I rejected the LJBF proposition multiple times by stating I don't do friends, I'm not a beta orbiter, and I'm not going to be her emotional tampon. I explained to her what happens to those guys.
Now here's the funny thing, which is not something I've ever seen any woman do: If I don't message her, she'll message me, knowing FULL WELL what my motives are and that we're not friends. Why would she do that? Why keep someone around who asserts themselves, when any of her (many) beta orbiters could take on the same role without any overt expectation of reciprocation?
She draws comparisons between me and her exes. I know attraction cannot be negotiated, and you cannot logically convince a woman to be attracted to you, but whenever I give her logical arguments she agrees with me. She usually replies with "um true lol". But then, when I flirt, she becomes withdrawn, asks me not to flirt with her, says she's uncomfortable.
She says she doesn't know what made her attracted to her exes, that she understands that its "odd" that she doesn't want anything more than friendship with me right now, and that she doesn't know why.
I think she thinks I'm a beta. A valid candidate given her predicament, but she isn't in a rush. Rollo Tomassi wrote about how women in their epiphany phase APPEAR to become more selective when vetting guys when the criteria shifts to long term provisioning, and describes a state of inner conflict between Id and Ego. Could this be what is going on?
Another explanation is that this reluctance to develop intimacy is a response to trauma, but I'm no psychiatrist. All I know is that there is some stuff that she says and does that isn't normal to me. For example, some of her "exes" were completely virtual, over the internet and with no way of getting to the guy. She's never slept with them, at best they exchanged nudes or something. Yet she used to call them "soulmates". She takes heart emojis and stuff like that very seriously, according to her. She claims she left one of her "exes" not because he was an abusive narcissist (her words) but because he'd demand immediate responses to his texts which were causing her to be late for work. So, all in all, aren't these indications that she's crazy? What do you think?
So, I'm talking to this girl, she's a solid 7 but almost at the age she'll be entering her epiphany phase. She claims to have trauma, complex PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and a whole slew of other acronyms. I've been conducting some experiments and using the opportunity to improve my Game, without much emotional investment. I'm learning.
The details are as follows:
She's always taken good care not to give me an IOI as if that would be a sin, and she's reluctantly given me an LJBF rejection a couple of times, saying that right now she only wants to be my friend, but that in the future she doesn't know what could happen. I rejected the LJBF proposition multiple times by stating I don't do friends, I'm not a beta orbiter, and I'm not going to be her emotional tampon. I explained to her what happens to those guys.
Now here's the funny thing, which is not something I've ever seen any woman do: If I don't message her, she'll message me, knowing FULL WELL what my motives are and that we're not friends. Why would she do that? Why keep someone around who asserts themselves, when any of her (many) beta orbiters could take on the same role without any overt expectation of reciprocation?
She draws comparisons between me and her exes. I know attraction cannot be negotiated, and you cannot logically convince a woman to be attracted to you, but whenever I give her logical arguments she agrees with me. She usually replies with "um true lol". But then, when I flirt, she becomes withdrawn, asks me not to flirt with her, says she's uncomfortable.
She says she doesn't know what made her attracted to her exes, that she understands that its "odd" that she doesn't want anything more than friendship with me right now, and that she doesn't know why.
I think she thinks I'm a beta. A valid candidate given her predicament, but she isn't in a rush. Rollo Tomassi wrote about how women in their epiphany phase APPEAR to become more selective when vetting guys when the criteria shifts to long term provisioning, and describes a state of inner conflict between Id and Ego. Could this be what is going on?
Another explanation is that this reluctance to develop intimacy is a response to trauma, but I'm no psychiatrist. All I know is that there is some stuff that she says and does that isn't normal to me. For example, some of her "exes" were completely virtual, over the internet and with no way of getting to the guy. She's never slept with them, at best they exchanged nudes or something. Yet she used to call them "soulmates". She takes heart emojis and stuff like that very seriously, according to her. She claims she left one of her "exes" not because he was an abusive narcissist (her words) but because he'd demand immediate responses to his texts which were causing her to be late for work. So, all in all, aren't these indications that she's crazy? What do you think?