I’m working through the procrastination and it looks like things will be all right once again, but somewhat tight due to delays.
I’ve been in stickier situations before. It should be fine.
God willing, I’ll meet all of my minimal objectives and hopefully be in a stronger position for the winter campaign.
That said, the main risk right now is in terms of moving out before February.
It’s doable, but progress is too gradual fpr my taste.
Also, the time crunch in the next several days is tight but it’ll work out.
The main thing is to get good sleep. Also, to ejaculate less. That is, not as a sleeping aid as I’ve been doing, but out of natural horniness built up.
Overall I’m mostly improving in almost every way.
Anyway…
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Today I had a really fun deep-ish dive with a girl I’ve mentioned before. Overall we spent something like an hour paired in a group setting and then thirty or so minutes with each other, part of which was her chauffeusing me a short distance.
This is SC and something she told me combined with my awareness of being sleep-deprived kept me staying sexy-social and not trying to really set specific frames.
However, I thought it was really interesting that she qualified herself, more like an equal/sidekick than submissively, about a few things.
Also, she doesn’t ever try any of the constant BS she does with other guys. Among other reasons, I clearly enjoy her brashness (and say so) while calling it out in a friendly way.
This is largely because I now have some experience dealing with such girls (not to mention gradually learned to set clear boundaries with women, and people generally, in my family and other social places).
Looking back, I can’t clearly fit her into either of the three archetypes that
@fog? has been very helpful with because she has a deep mask of this casual brashness with men as a long-term adaptive response to trauma. Earlier I told her I had thought she was a closeted lesbian but she self-identified as straight and I assume she is in fact.
The thing is that it’s probably not just a mask. It looks more like a personality shift, not unlike my own previous/ongoing changes.
I’m sure I’ll find out if I can get a chance to get through her surface layer, which I can likely do easily next time we’re at all isolated just out of warm benevolence + established dominance/compliance. I assume she’s not much of an SSO (unless she’s buried it deeply). She might have some princess tendencies; she’s definitely fairly ambitious. I don’t know how passionate she really is because of her mask.
She’s growing on me. I like how she’s sidekick-y, that she has a spine but will accept my frame. Also, that she has real ambition, despite having a certain femininity under the surface that a lot of girls don’t have in this day and age.
In fact, I intuit that she’s a pretty darn good fit, although I’m feeling chill about it.
Either way, the “gravitational” path, vs. trying to be magnetic, seems to work well with her.
There’s still a fair amount of emotional distance but we could definitely bridge it…IF I can find the time for a date by the end of the semester. Increased mutual vulnerability would be a big step forward.
I’ll be seeing her once or twice later in the week and I think I’ll do my best to move things ahead.
The main thing is gonna be the frame. She’s cool with being single (although she has a 50-50 friend group) and I tend to doubt she’s currently sexually active. I need to communicate the Third Way to her snd sell her on my frame.
A general thought: if as I read here earlier women mainly consider sex to be a natural extension of feelings, I should develop a clearer understanding of that through experience.
In other news, I met someone and he knew who I was already (I didn’t recognize him) and told me he had voted for me in something. Hopefully a taste of what’s to come…my grand strategy is bearing fruit…