Hey Altimeter,
I don't know, there are simply girls/women with whom I click more, and with others less. Once in a while, I just realy 'click' with some of them quite well, while with others the interaction seem to be more casual, not so exciting... I don't know if it is always like that, but the last 3 out of 4 I clicked with were "Alfas".
The way I see it, there truly are beta and alfa females. I guess some are just "natural", the same way as we describe men or wolfs. To me, Alfa's are totally different. I know they are just humans, but they do act differently. For example, I can gradually increase compliance in beta female, she doesn't even register it. She can't "see" through it, and if she does, she doesn't really care that much. With Alfa, she lets me do it once without noticing, but then she puts brakes on, starts monitoring it, and then only gives me compliance when she chooses.
It is like as if she is aware of what I am doing, she simply "sees" through my attempts, and she wants to remain in charge. Other example, with touching. I don't have a problem touching new beta female, starting with touching and holding hands, and keep doing it until she starts hitting back on me and giving me hints that she wants to do it. I got quite a lot of offers from betas recently, not even trying. But I'll do the same once with Alfa and she "gets it" right away. Then I don't repeat it for a while because it causes her to move away. I had a pretty decent physical escallation with her in the past, but then I screwed up and she moved away. I mean, she is ahead of my game, without knowing the game. I don't know how to explain it...
Another thing, those Alfa's I know are rather quite active and dominant, even though they appear very sweet. I knew this one for quite a while. She was always nice and sweet "little girl", though she is a mature woman. One day she just "grew up", all of the sudden she was two heads taller than me - totally dominant, requesting and persisting things from me, tried to boss me around... I knew right away it's some kind of freaking test, so I immediatelly put breaks on, started to ignore her request... It took me several days but I over-dominated her. After that she was still acting like this for some 3-4 weeks, it was quite a surprice to me, and not reading through PUA material I would be totally lost. But now she is back to that sweet little girl, and never tried that thing on me again.
This Alfa I know also have internal frames set in stone, it is very difficult to change them, especially if she is quite conservative. And she is, but so am I. She was very specific that nothing would happen so to speak "quickly", and she she rejected every single one of my attempts... Well, should I really be surpriced...?
The only thing that appears to work at this time is brutal honesty. That makes her weak. But for that, one needs to know exactly what he wants, which was my problem at the time I met her. I simply didn't set my frame the right way from the beginning, and then I started to change it. I admit, I am clumsy. She obviously registered it and since that she is watching. At this time I am just pushing my frame on her, over and over. It appears to me that she is slowly giving in. I will just keep pushing and pushing untill she either gives in or totally rejects me. So far she lets me while remaining nice and sweet. I don't honestly know how she does it, others would tell me to f-off. Perhaps I can't even be more obvious. It is quite exciting, but at the same time exhausting...
I know, I know, abundance mentality...
I just tried that "imagination" thing with her, and her reaction seems to be positive. She initiated quite interesting conversations with me right after that, asked me quite unusual questions, and I know she is thinking quite hard. That is a huge progress in comparison to some while ago. At that time she was in total denial.
Anyway, I don't fear the rejection. I was in great pain before so I am careful, my investment into her is rather conscious than blind. If nothing else, I learned so much from this interaction, while at the same time reading Chase's articles... This is a great learning curve for me.
So, I don't even know what is "normal" anymore. You tell me