T|CK said:
Sorry, dude. I just don't believe in using tactics to get a girl to like me. I really just want to come off as needless as possible. In fact, that's the person I won't to become.
I think that you are smarter then some posters give you credit for. However, I think with your mindset, you will swing the pendlum too far in one direction and ended up on the side you are trying to stay away from. You are so concerned with appearing unneedy that you seek to prove your lack of need to others. In Eastern philosophy, a lack of want is seen as a sign of spiritual enlightenment, but from a societal standpoint lack of want is seen as a sign of depression. Just think about that for a minute
So many guys are so unhappy because they need a woman. It's my intent to change that aspect of my life. I want to be ok with being alone.
Why don't you get good at talking to women instead? That way you don't have to get used to being a cat lady. You are essentially throwing in the towel before you get in the ring. Are you so sure you will fail at women that you have already decided to live life without them? Or (and I think this hits it on the nail) you think by needing women less, they will want to be with you even more?
What I would suggest is that you learn the tactics first THEN decide whether you want to use them or not. And by tactics, I do not mean routines or one liners, but the reasoning behind the routines and one liners: why certain approaches work, different ways to approach situations, building attraction, understanding rapport, etc. Basically most of the information in the archive section coupled with oodles of field work.
I know I came here asking for advice, and that's needy enough in itself. I know I came off as needy, but that's the thing I should be steering away from, and I come here and get answers on how to manipulate a woman.
First off, asking a question when you are seeking information to better your life is not needy. Second, manipulation is a harsh word, or rather a word with rather harsh connotations. The fact is, in order to get what you want, you have to give others what they want. If I want a new computer, and you have a new computer and I hear through word of mouth that you are behind on your rent and need $1000... If I offer that money to you, for your computer, is that manuipulation? That is essentially the mission statement of SS. This site is about understanding what women want and how to give it to them in order to get what we want. Capitalism at its finest.
I firmly believe it isn't what you say, but the undertones in what you are saying. I know married men that don't try at all and women throw themselves at them. Why? Because they don't need these women and aren't desperate.
The point me and many other posters are trying to make is that this is only part of the equation. It is not simply because these men don't need women that they are successful though it is a contributing factor in this instance. However, I know single men who act like they don't need women and as a result they DON'T have any at their disposal (which is where you stand right now)
Acting aloof and like you don't need the person might work for a while on an insecure chick or a chick in the beginning stages of the relationship, but it is a also a surefire way to get cheated on or broken up with for a regular/smart woman.
Trust me when I tell you this, I have tried to act aloof and nonchalant and this is the one area where you cannot fake it until you make it in my opinion. There is more to seduction then acting uninterested...
What needs to be taught to guys looking for answers is that you can't get women without already having a mindset that says you have plenty of women. You can't get a decent woman by being nice to her.
On the contrary, you can ONLY get a decent woman by being nice to her. It is the not-so-decent women, the ones that are sought after, throwing numbers away right after she gets them kind of girl that most men are interested in.
Also, if you don't need women, you don't need to convince yourself that you already have plenty