(06-20-2016 04:12 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: I'm just going to post my questions/concerns and size them up and color them red. I and others could be completely wrong on this topic, but XXL and the OP refuse to address these. I'd like to know why:
I see nothing special to address but OK let's go...
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: I agree with Hank Moody and Red_Pillage here. You've classically friend-zoned yourself by being her friend.
You even said that you're going to keep doing the things you did before you got more intense with her, like kiss her on the forehead.
Look, I'm a guy that is very affectionate towards his female friends even in the midst of a LTR. I'll hug them tight, I'll smack them, I'll even massage their hands, arms, shoulders, backs, legs, and even asses (usually back of hand or palm), but I would never kiss their fucking foreheads.
That's awkward unless you're a girl's lover or her brother.
XXL breaks it down: He's trying to be her lover. He's not yet of course but he tries to force that frame on her either consciously or not. It's also direct expression of care and affection. He did it too early of course but it's not like he ruined everything by that little thing.
It's like when guys treat women as their GFs on first dates, help with coat, chair, opening door, give elbow, etc, they take care of them. It's the same mechanism. They try to enforce or set that frame that they're already together so that the girl is more likely to get intimate.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: There's a lot else I'm suspicious about in your post. I'm quoting the weird parts below:
Quote:Hello fellas...This might be a bit beta by your standards but here goes. Kindly take 4 mins to read. It goes pretty quick, I promise!
You're on a men's forum asking for advice. A little humbleness is appropriate, but this above is classic approval seeking nonsense. Why are you already convincing us that we should read the thread? You're very nearly groveling. I can see why she's on the fence about you (at best).
XXL breaks it down: Guy is new and really really wants to discuss. It's fine. Stop whining.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:So basically I have been gaming (if you wanna call it that) this girl.
Why are you looking down on the word "gaming?" Are you too good for this, Mr. White Knight?
XXL breaks it down: I hate the word game as a verb. "Gaming" sounds so lame to me. Guys who play basketball they play the game, they're not gaming the ball or the other team.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:We started out as friends and didn't have much emotional feelings. However, as I got to know her more, I found that she was a diamond hidden away in the chaos of sloots around me.
So she's a special snowflake? You have to emphasize that the other girls are sloots for no reason other than to put her up on your pedestal.
XXL breaks it down: It happens to all of us. It's human nature. I see nothing wrong with that. I recall many instances like that from my life even not too long ago. Even when I knew very what was happening to me I still felt that weird attraction that I couldn't figure out. The whole skills is to look at it from rational standpoint and be able to think clearly despite those feelings. I can't imagine a man who has never felt this way in his life. The whole difference between guys like us and others is that we're more aware of it and able to control it. It's learned behavior. Others simply didn't learn it.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:Turns out, my "friend" was a very nice, feminine, modern girl.
The bolded above is a positive how? How is being a modern girl positive?
XXL breaks it down: I have no idea what's "modern" mean in this context. She has some electronic devices in her body?
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:Her cooking skills are amazing. She holds traditional views of marriage, home-making, and her commitment to her man. At the same time, she is very smart and is acing her upper div Physics and Chem classes with A's, B's etc.
Her cooking skills are not amazing, I can guarantee that. There are VERY few people who truly have amazing cooking skills. Again, you're putting her up on a pedestal. If she's so amazing, would you find her cooking amongst any of the chefs of the finest dining restaurants? Those are "amazing" cooking skills, not hers.
What exactly is a girl who has traditional views of home-making doing studying Physics and Chem classes in college? That's not really congruent.
XXL breaks it down: You try to tell me that a girl who has traditional views of home-making can't study? I'm kind of stunned. What congruency has anything to do with that? Traditional woman is not someone with no life, no friends, no goals in life, who stays at home 24/7 cooking, cleaning, making babies and being your housewife.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:We started to hang out a lot and I became her "best" guy friend. She started sharing her secrets, past life, and all.
Becoming a girl's best guy friend is almost exclusively a death knell on strong attraction. You conveniently skip past sharing and of this "past life" she has or her "secrets." I imagine she's not a perfect snowflake in these, but you left it out.
XXL breaks it down: It's irrelevant to the situation. Her secrets are probably things like forgetting to take her cat back home from vacation or losing her best friend or not telling her parents about few F's she got at school etc. You expect some kind of brutal stories.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:Cutting to the chase--we started to become really close. We'll cuddle, become cozy while watching movies, and care for each other so on. We both knew its not a friendship anymore. In one of these moments she asked me if I liked her and I played the right game and told her that it was more than liking blah blah (which was kind of true as I was falling for her). Things escalated. Pretty quick. In next couple of meetings, we hooked up. Things got really intensely physical (sex didn't happen).
You hint around what happened. What happened? You kissed and gave her tongue? You dry-humped? You got a hand on bare tit for a few moments? Nobody is going to knock you for having very little physical experience but saying you're hooking up with other girls gives us the impression that hooking up was something significant, not any of the above.
XXL breaks it down: True. Hooking up can mean a lot of things. OP was ambiguous here.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:Now today, all of a sudden, she texts me and tells me that we should create some distance. She says she is confused whether she likes me or is it just temporary feeling because I care for her and all.Also, she says that doesn't want to get too involved into all this since I'll be graduating soon from college and move away. Moreover, her family is kind of religious and they would not marry outside of their certain religious creed (of which I am not a part of). She feels that becoming physically too close will only make it harder for both of us later on. She wants to be practical because she says she knows that it is not gonna work out due to various factors (I kind of know that. Her family will NEVER let her marry me). She told me not to be nice to her or treat her special because she falls weak emotionally and ends up too close to me. I told her my feelings for her a natural and I'd continue to treat her the way I did before. She said then in that case, she is clear from her side and she'll distance herself on her own (although she doesn't want to lose me as a friend).
The part in bold above is the only important part. She's re-friend-zoning you and she doesn't want to lose you as a friend.
XXL breaks it down: What she said is real to her. Indeed, she doesn't want to lose him as a friend. However she just didn't add that she also wants his P in her V. She wants that too. And the only reason she said that is that she knows that getting intimate will turn that friendship into different relationship that she wants with him but is afraid of consequences and potential repercussion. So it's her perfect excuse not to sleep with him. She's just concerned. He should not let that stop him. He should say "whatever happens our friendship is untouchable" and keep on doing his thing according to this plan. I hope you can see why this is good line in that context even though it frames you as a "friend".
Side question: Since when you listen to women so attentively and take their every word into account so seriously?
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:Now, brothers and experts in the field, what should I do? I have hooked up with another girl while I was talking to this girl--but believe me, it's not the same. I have become emotionally attached to this girl and I feel like she might be the girl I'd be willing to have a LTR or even marriage. She has almost all of the qualities that a man would want in her wife and especially in an era of endless sloot supply..finding a beautiful, hot girl with wife-material personality and views is hard. I don't want to let her go.
What should I do? FTOW approach is hard here fellas. She is just special to me. I don't enjoy hooking up with girls like I used to. This is different. Don't wanna let her go.
Please help
Cut ties and move on. Fucking ten other women is not hard, it's fun. She's not special, you caught feelings for a girl that mostly just wants you to be her friend and comfort her. You're comfortable. Like a cozy blanket to use for warmth or a leather couch to use to lay down on.
XXL breaks it down: For him maybe it is not so fun and easy. Again, you just give your opinion on a forum that TO YOU it's this and that. I have no idea whether it's worth it or not cause only time can tell.
(06-13-2016 09:29 PM)AneroidOcean Wrote: Quote:She has almost all of the qualities that a man would want in her wife
Even if she does, she is missing the most important quality of all if you're that man. For her to want you to be her man instead of her best man friend.
XXL breaks it down: Not true. They just started as friends. It can be flipped over certain period of time. That's what game does. It converts. You view it in black and white way. It's either on or not. If not then there's nothing that can be done. Again, not true. It can be done but it's different game than the standard procedure. That's all.
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You clearly doesn't want to help him by replying this way. You're straight up dissing him. You're trying to put a newbie down by nitpicking anything you can [is it so bad he's too humble? really?] for an ego boost. I can nitpick and point out all the wrong things you say about game as easily.