Chickfight said:
Seems you've done fine so far.
HUh????
Are you serious? You say he's done "fine" so far?
Chickfight....he's done HORRIBLE. (Uhh....sorry Darth)
There's no point in beating around the bush.
Darth,do you want the TRUTH? You do. You CAN handle the truth. (Jack Nicholson
)
First the bad news.....
I'll just say it flat out....she's an AW. She is. And you are UNKNOWINGLY/UNINTENTIONALLY
FEEDING her AW and are actually
helping her to act this way.
Whether you realize it or not,you are.
Now the good news....this is COMPLETELY fixable. My mantra is this....AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT IN THE FRIENDZONE,THERE'S HOPE.
It's fixable,but first you need to see and understand WHERE and WHAT you did wrong here in order to not unintentionally repeat the same mistakes.
Darth said:
Right.
OK, here's the whole story:
-Known the girl for a long time
Mistake #1:You've known her for a long time,but for some reason,you've just now decided to reveal your interest. Best thing to do is let a girl know you're interested when first getting to know her.
That way she
HAS TO view you as at least a potential romantic interest because that's how you presented yourself to her.
If you ask a girl out,whether she says yes or no,the THOUGHT OF BEING SEXUAL WITH YOU is introduced in her mind.
Darth said:
-Did a project together with the girl. She subtly rejects me in the car.
-Before getting out of the car, I tell her I think she's cute.
This is the "horrible" part i spoke of. Darth....she REJECTED you,and your response was to compliment her?
The hell?
She rejected you SEXUALLY,which means she rejected you as a MAN....and your response was to give her a compliment. Woooow.
That makes you look bad. It kinda makes you seem desperate. And in addition to looking desperate,you also boosted her ego.
I know I may seem hard on you,but hang on,it's almost over. The solution to this is coming.
Darth said:
Then no contact for a week.
-She reinitiates contact
Her "attention fuel tank" just got low. She contacted you NOT BECAUSE SHE LIKES YOU,but to get another refill of attention. Once she's had enough,she'll disappear again.
She will.
Darth said:
We see each other at an event. I am the man. I make fun of her repeatedly, and then go up to a politician who was there without any fear at all. Later, I tell her I still think she's cute.
STOP TELLING HER SHE'S CUTE.
You're boosting her ego/strengthening her AW. There's a way to compliemt her WITHOUT boosting her ego,but later.
Darth said:
That weekend I ask her to lunch. She says no, I seem like a great guy but she's not into dating right now.
When she said that she wasn't into dating right now,what she meant was she's not into dating
YOU right now.
Don't fall for this lie. She'll have you believing this is true,then one day when you're out and about somewhere,you'll see her walking hand in hand with some other dude.
Don't fall for this Darth.
Darth said:
But she hopes we can be friends.
Uh-oh. If this is the friendzone,then....well,you might as well forget it.
Hmmm. I know she said the "we can be friends" thing,but I'm not so sure you're in the friendzone just yet.
Let me ask a question:You said that she rejected you in the car. Ok,what did you say to her to cause this? Did you ask her out,or what? And when she rejected you,what EXACTLY did she say?
Darth said:
Then I say sorry, I hope we can be good friends, I have no right to tell you how to feel (not a textbook move, this was a gamble).
Darth,you're acting like a "nice guy" here.
You really need to cut out that kind of talk.
Friday is fun. There are lots of girls there and I hit on most of them. She starts opening up to me in the car on the way back.
What do you mean she "started opening up"? What did she do?
Darth said:
I emailed her Friday night and Saturday with some AFC stuff (asked her if she wanted to talk about it, said she was on my mind a lot lately)
-She sends me an email this morning saying:
Yes, except I'm not sure how that's going to happen this week. Life is kind of crazy right now...
Yeah,you boosted her ego again. You're telling this girl she's "on your mind a lot lately". So EMOTIONALLY,she thinks she has you won over,and she hasn't even done anything.
She's not your girlfriend.
She's never kissed you
Had sex with you
Confessed her feelings first
or gone on a SINGLE DATE with you
...and yet,you told her she's "on your mind a lot lately"
Damn Darth. There's actually a lot more damage here than I thought.
Look,STOP TELLING HER SHE'S CUTE. If you're going to compliment her say "I",such as "I like" the way you look in that shirt/dress/pair of jeans".
It's "I like",NOT "you". Stop saying "you're cute" or "you're hot",or "you" anything. I know that may not seem like a big deal,but just trust me on it.
Another thing is you need to get SEXUAL with her. I said "sexual",NOT VULGAR OR OBSCENE.
You basically have a MOUNTAIN to overcome. It's fixable,but it'll take some time though. You might want to just drop her and move on because you've got a lot of work to do to turn this around,and even then,there's no guarantee.