"Isn't it kind of AFC to not be able to be friends because you are still "into her?"
Not at all.
If you are still into her and she does not feel the same way it would be AFC to accept her friendship secretly in the hopes that you will catch her in a fight and an emotional moment with the new boyfriend so you can nail her again.
Then a day later she hits you in the ego a second time by saying its no longer a good idea for the two of you to be friends.
Sure you got laid out of her by being a bottom feeder and settling for sloppy seconds but its got to hurt your ego and make you feel less of a man and more like a punk to nip at her heels begging and waiting for her table scraps of intimacy.
This is what being a man is all about.
Making a mature decision to cut the dead weight that does not benefit your life in the way you want it to in that moment.
And after you do that if her emotions are affected enough to come back to you and offer you a better deal then all the cards and all the power are in your hands to reject or accept her new offer.
You then hold the direction of her romantic life in your hands and not the other way around if you choose the sympering AFC route of false friendship orbiting.
Its critical to be smooth, cool or simply polite when it comes to rejecting the false friendship offer from an ex or a girl you are interested in as the angry rejection of friendship is what makes not accepting this an AFC move and kills any potential benefits the not accepting friendship policy may generate.
The only way that accepting friendship from an ex isn't some form of AFCery is if you truly want to be her friend and nothing more secretly.
"Also, women are very intuitive. Unless you are a master BSer, she might sense that you are full of it, giving her further control of the situation."
She might sense that but with women's wild out of control emotions and rapid thought process she will second guess herself constantly over this and verifiably fvck her mind up thinking about you and her situation with you.
And even if she is the rare type of woman that 100% believes her "sense" of things if you maintain no contact and she still has feelings for you it will shake her confidence and even if her confidence is never shaken you have moved on with your life and are not pining over what is worthless to your life which is the absolute message of this site concerning relationships.
"I might say, "My other female friends regularly introduce me to women who they feel are qualified for me. Is that something you will be willing to do?"
You see, now you are questioning her maturity, letting her know you dont really need her, and setting up parameters for your "friendship" that are beneficial for you."
This could be a good alternative to my advice but what if she agrees enthusiastically to this and sets you up with her friend who is warm affectionate cuddly and in her opinion is the most attractive girl that she knows but then when date night comes you find out she's 500lbs or ugly as sin? :crackup: