Sexy_Malibu
Master Don Juan
This may seem kind of like common sense... but I read so many of you talking about "play it cool" and "play hard to get" and "wait to call her" and "act disinterested" and so on... so I'm just going to add in my two cents as a woman...
It's very true that calling too soon/too often or acting overly interested and AFCish in general is a bad idea. But you should know where to draw the line between "playing it cool" and sabotauging yourself.
I don't pretend to be the hottest chick in the world or to be extremely sought after. I'm just a regular average girl, but I will say that at any given point in time there are at least 3 guys vying for my attention. (This isn't to say that these are always guys that I'm necessarily interested in, but the fact remains that there ARE guys who are interested in me). So what's the point of me telling you this? Even though it may sound like I'm being conceited (I swear I'm not), basically what I'm saying is that I don't have to work for it. So if a guy that I'm interested in is showing me signs of low IL then I'm going to assume that he has low IL in me. If he's not calling me and making plans often enough, I'm not going to waste my time with him.
Example: I was dating a guy who rarely initated plans. I would call him and say something like "I'm going to be in your neighborhood and so-and-so day, would you like to meet up before/aftewards?" etc. I know he had some interest in me, because he was always very enthusiastic about making these plans. But he never called me to suggest plans on his own. This didn't make me thing "oh maybe he's just shy" or "oh he must be busy with other women, what can I do to keep his attention?" ... it just made me think "okay well he's obviously not THAT interested in me, so why am I going to waste my time bothering some guy who's not interested... when so-and-so over here is knocking my door down to see me?" Now you can argue that he really wasn't interested, which is probably the truth... but the fact of the matter is that a lot of guys out there act this way, even when they are interested... trying to play some slick DJ game but failing at it and having it backfire.
So all I'm saying... all my advice to you is... is that there IS a fine line, so walk it carefully. You might be so wrapped up with playing games, that you end up making yourself lose without knowing it.
(Mods, feel free to move this thread to 'Anything Else' or wherever else you think it goes, I wasn't sure. In fact, feel free to delete this thread if you think it's useless, I wasn't sure about that either).
It's very true that calling too soon/too often or acting overly interested and AFCish in general is a bad idea. But you should know where to draw the line between "playing it cool" and sabotauging yourself.
I don't pretend to be the hottest chick in the world or to be extremely sought after. I'm just a regular average girl, but I will say that at any given point in time there are at least 3 guys vying for my attention. (This isn't to say that these are always guys that I'm necessarily interested in, but the fact remains that there ARE guys who are interested in me). So what's the point of me telling you this? Even though it may sound like I'm being conceited (I swear I'm not), basically what I'm saying is that I don't have to work for it. So if a guy that I'm interested in is showing me signs of low IL then I'm going to assume that he has low IL in me. If he's not calling me and making plans often enough, I'm not going to waste my time with him.
Example: I was dating a guy who rarely initated plans. I would call him and say something like "I'm going to be in your neighborhood and so-and-so day, would you like to meet up before/aftewards?" etc. I know he had some interest in me, because he was always very enthusiastic about making these plans. But he never called me to suggest plans on his own. This didn't make me thing "oh maybe he's just shy" or "oh he must be busy with other women, what can I do to keep his attention?" ... it just made me think "okay well he's obviously not THAT interested in me, so why am I going to waste my time bothering some guy who's not interested... when so-and-so over here is knocking my door down to see me?" Now you can argue that he really wasn't interested, which is probably the truth... but the fact of the matter is that a lot of guys out there act this way, even when they are interested... trying to play some slick DJ game but failing at it and having it backfire.
So all I'm saying... all my advice to you is... is that there IS a fine line, so walk it carefully. You might be so wrapped up with playing games, that you end up making yourself lose without knowing it.
(Mods, feel free to move this thread to 'Anything Else' or wherever else you think it goes, I wasn't sure. In fact, feel free to delete this thread if you think it's useless, I wasn't sure about that either).