@Mali,
Okay, a few important things to highlight:
When it's social circle, and especially when it's work, women hit the brakes hard. Going too far with just one wrong guy can completely wreck their reputations and screw their whole lives up. The chance a guy is The One < the possible damage to her life if he turns out to be just another guy and goes ape.
Every workplace guy gets slow-gamed... every guy from her workplace, that is (she will still be moving at 'normal speed' with men she meets outside of work).
It is possible to be the guy who beds girls quick at work (then keeps them, if he wants to), but most guys will struggle with this. Personally I always found it tough to do unless you were on your way out / had already left the job, and were meeting up with a girl there was no longer that reason for her to be cautious any longer.
That's how women do things.
If she isn't interested at all, she won't put it out there at all.
It's deliberately ambiguous, that way if it doesn't work out she can withdraw her attempt and if any guy tries to nail her down over it say, "I don't know what he means! I was just being friendly! Sheesh,
men!"
Sound like small-town girls on a faster life trajectory (get serious faster / marry sooner).
You can bed these girls quick too but you need to be able to break that frame and pull them into yours. That takes finesse to be able to do.
The other option is to do what a lot of the guys these girls end up with in LTRs do, which is just be a part of their lives for long enough while making moves until they end up together. That is going to be difficult for you though if you do not live in their towns (sounds like you don't).
Either way, these are girls you weren't really in the position to get -- you're not at the point where you can pick them up quick, and you're not around them enough for a long-enough timeline (sounds like) that more traditional social circle game will work.
Bit of a case of "look, but don't touch" give the combination of your skill level + logistics.
Yes, sounds like.
However, she held the frame.
You maintained enough of a solid frame to hold her interest and not get sucked into a perfect provider role -- she'd have lost interest if you did (sounds like she already had that with hubby).
By the same coin, she kept you around as her backup option while she decided what she wanted to do with the husband or not.
When you auto-rejected and gave up, she lost her best backup option, the experiment was over, and she returned to hubby.
Again, this is a skill-level issue. Solid enough head on your shoulders not to get totally sucked into her frame. Seduction skills too shaky though to bring her into yours and properly seduce her so she ends up in your bed.
Well, first off:
At the start of the new year, there was a thread on the boards with suggestions for new articles this year. Zac suggested one on the tendency of women to always have men in their lives... and that this should never be an obstacle for you when meeting new women. It’s a curious thing for me to...
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Whenever you encounter these girls who are complete catches but seem to have been long-term single and also seem resistant to dating, one of the following will in my experience always be the case:
- There is some guy she is sleeping with who she is into that you don't know about (and she isn't saying) -- this is the most common
- There is some ex-boyfriend who is crazy about her she keeps around as a backup option so she doesn't feel pressure to find a new man
- Or else there is some guy she has a huge crush on who she is chasing after and trying to get together with but hasn't managed to yet
I would also add -- coworker intel is not worth much.
Women typically have complete lives outside of work their coworkers usually have no idea about.
I talk about a girl I was seeing where guys at her work were going nuts courting her, thinking she was totally single, when in fact we were shagging like bunnies in heat, in this article:
In this post, I'd like to share with you a cautionary tale. I'd like to tell you the story of a man named Shopping Guy. Shopping Guy isn't really his name. His family and his friends call him something else, no doubt; something closer to an actual name and less of a label. But I know him only as...
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This is not an exception -- this is the norm.
Especially for high value women.
Do you think a very attractive woman with a lot of suitors wants to scare all those guys off by announcing she has a new guy she's seeing, when it's not completely stable yet?
What happens if it doesn't work out because the guy's a bad boy (which is a type of guy every girl, including high value women who are ultimately looking for providers, fantasize about
and sample), and they break up after three months? Is she going to tell all those guys, "Hey guys, I'm back on the market again"? She looks like a chick who sleeps around and can't secure commitment from the men she dates. Her value goes down and none of those guys will want her as much.
It is better if they simply never know he exists -- so they
won't.
YOU are one of those guys who is simply never going to know about the other guys these girls are sleeping with, my man. Any guy she works with who is into her is.
She is going to go out of her way to make sure those guys who are chasing her never know about her lovers. Depending on how cautious she is, you may not find out she has a guy until they're 6 months in and serious... 10 months in and moving in together... or 2 years in and engaged.
I had a chick at an office job I was sort of angling for, and then we all went out to the club one night and she started making out with one of my other coworkers. The third guy there and I looked at each other like, "Huh?" Come to find out she and that guy had been seeing each other for several weeks but none of us knew. That drunk club make-out session was the announcement, I guess (the dude who got her was sneaky -- as soon as she transferred in, he made himself her "welcome committee" and took charge of showing her the ropes in both the office and the city. Turns out that wasn't the only rope he was showing her
).
I had another chick I knew in an office job where the girl casually let it slip she had a live-in boyfriend, and us guys who had known her for years and took our shots at getting her out now and again were all like, "Huh? Did you know she was seeing anyone? I thought she was single! Live-in boyfriend? When did that happen? How long's she been seeing this guy? Has she been seeing this guy for a long time and none of us even knew, lol?"
Women are tricky minxes, man. Even the ones you think are "very conservative" and "looking for a long-term provider."
That girl from the shopping guy article, those guys courting her thought she was completely celibate. One of them thought she was a virgin and tried explaining some things about men to her so she could "keep herself safe" (i.e., not end up with any guy except him). That girl at my office with the secret live-in boyfriend always seemed like this shy, conservative girl.
Having been in various workplaces, I have also seen how a lot of guys there will start to think the women there must be limited to dating from the pool of whoever is in the office, when in fact most of the men most women date they meet anywhere
but the office. Workplaces warp perceptions.
Some girls are blabbermouths about every guy they are seeing, it is true. You get the office motormouth girl who vents about every 2-month relationship she has and you know her entire life dating history. But a lot of girls do not talk about the men they are dating until it has gotten quite serious. They are happier to let everyone think they are chaste good girls who are waiting for the right guy, meanwhile they are getting nailed in a thousand different positions by guys they met outside work (guys like myself and the other men on this forum). They may look chaste compared to the blabbermouth girl, but it is just because they are shrewd enough not to be running their mouths in the workplace, which tends to be filled with well-earning potential long-term providers.
This is what your perspective is when you are just circling around women instead of shagging them.
You won't know what the truth is with them, they maintain this veil of ambiguity about themselves, and you spend endless time concocting theories then throwing them away because the truth is you just don't know.
And let me tell you -- when you are getting the "veil of mystery" about a girl,
there is something she does not want you to know, and it is almost always going to be about another guy (because what else? That her father is a super villain? It's always something about a dude she is obscuring).
When you're in this position of not sleeping with her meanwhile trying to puzzle out what her situation is, you might as well be coming up with theories about if there was ever life in the gas clouds of Saturn or what the political structure of the first city-state in the Fertile Crescent was like or how the average North Korean really feels about Great Leader. You just don't have the information, she is deliberately NOT giving it to you, and so anything you come up with is going to be a guess.
If you want to understand what women are doing and what the reality is in their lives, there is only one way to do it:
Fuck them, then ask them, and see what they say.
Preferably fuck enough of them that you understand these patterns, and stop trying to puzzle out "the mystery of the celibate girl" and instead are able to look at girls like this and say, "Well, I'm eligible and she's attracted but she won't come out. So either she's fucking a guy right now or she's got another guy she wants to fuck. I need to see if I can get around this guy to get her, or else I need to put her on the back burner until she becomes available while I shag some other girls."
Chase