Feel free to disagree, but I think I'm on to something here:
As an attorney, I get a fair bit of solicitation on LinkedIn and via email. Recently something caught my attention - women who are either in legal recruiting with lateral positions to offer me or women in custom men's suits with deals to offer me, all of whom don't know me apart from LinkedIn, yet all of whom offer me their cell phone numbers without me having to ask.
Now let's turn to dating apps, like Tinder, Hinge, etc.
Women who have matched with me already. I'm pretty crystal clear about not having time for nonsense and I use it to gauge compliance - I ask for the number in my first message. Some women give it to me, some never respond, and some give me a hard time. Only reason for not getting a number from a woman who's presumably supposed to be interested is "stranger danger."
But I think there's something else going on...
What if it's because when there's commission to be made, a woman offers you her number without request because converting you to a sale translates to her success. When it's you getting a number from her in the romantic sense, it's about your success.
The only reason a woman would give out a number when it's in her interest but not when it's in yours is because she is trying to wield power. This is why I ask right away, because if she's going to play games and attempt to control you by not giving you something you want in an attempt to make it seem more valuable than it is, she's just NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.
As an attorney, I get a fair bit of solicitation on LinkedIn and via email. Recently something caught my attention - women who are either in legal recruiting with lateral positions to offer me or women in custom men's suits with deals to offer me, all of whom don't know me apart from LinkedIn, yet all of whom offer me their cell phone numbers without me having to ask.
Now let's turn to dating apps, like Tinder, Hinge, etc.
Women who have matched with me already. I'm pretty crystal clear about not having time for nonsense and I use it to gauge compliance - I ask for the number in my first message. Some women give it to me, some never respond, and some give me a hard time. Only reason for not getting a number from a woman who's presumably supposed to be interested is "stranger danger."
But I think there's something else going on...
What if it's because when there's commission to be made, a woman offers you her number without request because converting you to a sale translates to her success. When it's you getting a number from her in the romantic sense, it's about your success.
The only reason a woman would give out a number when it's in her interest but not when it's in yours is because she is trying to wield power. This is why I ask right away, because if she's going to play games and attempt to control you by not giving you something you want in an attempt to make it seem more valuable than it is, she's just NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.