Like many of us here, I got dumped. She said she didn't prioritize seeing me over seeing her friends or partying and told me that I would be better off with someone who cares more, which probably translates to "you're a boring AFC and you deserve to date a boring girl that will give you all her attention". With 4 years invested into the relationship, I took 2 months to initiate NC while I begged for her back. Now I see that was a stupid thing to do.
I've already started self-improvement. The minute she broke up with me, I started hitting the gym thinking a better body would bring her back. Now I'm doing that for me and only me. I've gone down from 88 to 81kg, and added a strict diet that I've stuck to for the past week which has me losing about 2-4 kg a week now. I still got a bit of a muffin top, but its crazy looking in the mirror and seeing a face that more closely resembles the fit, in-shape guy I was when I was 20-21 and still on the prowl before this relationship.
I've started going out a lot more. If I can't find a group to go out with for the night, I get completely bored out of my mind and it drives me insane. I'm not quite ready to go pounce anywhere solo as I'm still in a bit of a shy, AFC mode. I do love to dance my ass off in the club and ignore everything else and just have a good time. I'll say hi to girls around my table, too, but I'm still rubbish at opening and carrying conversation. I only do 2-3 drinks a night so I don't get drunk but have something the cheers with when they come around or I'm opening.
I'm looking for hobbies and activities to do in downtime. Honestly, most of my free time is spent prowling dating sites which gets pretty boring. I live in Thailand (I'm a white foreigner and can speak and write fluent Thai), and the dating scene here just feels odd. A lot of chicks on the site can't speak English very well, so most openers except for "Hey I'm xyz Whats your name" don't ever work (Sarcasm pisses most people off because sarcasm isn't used much in Thai culture, so they take everything you say as serious and honest). Jokes go right over their heads. I'll need to find something that grabs more interest in Thai.
I'm finding I'm also really picky. I see hundreds of Thai girls at clubs, but hardly anything over a 5 or 6. Before my LTR
As for activities, I was thinking possibly hip-hop dancing or breakdancing. I used to breakdance when I was 18-19. Seems like it would be fun and possibly helpful for not making me look like a dumb dancer in clubs.
It's been difficult to maintain NC. When I told her I needed time to be by my own and not to contact me unless its an emergency, she replied with a she understands and sees I am getting over her. She then told me she would block my social networking accounts, which I guess means its been difficult for her to maintain NC from me, too. That took out the hard work of having to block her myself. I still sneak onto her FB and Instagram from time to time through non-blocked way, but since I initiated NC, she hasn't posted any updates.
I wonder if I should stop posting updates, as well, and just drop off the social radar. I'm almost indifferent to the use of Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes I do like to use it for the self-validation and boost to confidence when I see my photos and videos get a lot of comments and likes, mostly from a bunch of girls I've had added from dating sites or met at the club. That seems kind of chumpy though, as confidence should come from within and not from outer sources.
In the back of my mind there is hope that she'll settle down someday and want to come back to a stable relationship (she's told me she just doesn't want a long term relationship at the moment anymore - shes a new international air hostess and big time party girl so she'd rather be free to do what she wants while she's still young), but realistically, I know I shouldn't concern myself with it. I let her know she can come talk to me in person if she wants to talk about the relationship, but unless its an emergency, she just shouldn't contact me.
I'm a bit lost in how sexual I should be getting. It's been 3 months since I've had sex. Before the break up, because my ex was always flying, and then just partying, I was only getting laid about once a month. A couple days ago, a girl started masturbating on cam for me (maybe a 6 without the face, 4 with it). I wasn't showing my body, but in the act, I eventually just started to feel bad and get depressed and ended the cam session. I can't tell if maybe she was too ugly for me to get into it, or I'm just not going to be able to move on and be sexual with anyone for a while. I want sex, but I don't know if it will hurt me more or will help me move on at this point.
Yesterday I went out with friends to a Japanese pub and attempted to be much more alpha. I walked in happy, loud and confident. One of my friend's friends is always kind of *****y towards me and makes me feel a bit AFC (It's just the way she is around some people, my friend said, she doesn't hate you - she just shows her friendship with you off like a total *****). I immediately walked in, hugged her from behind and asked her "Are you getting fatter?" (This is a common and not a rude question to ask in Thailand) in a smug and snarky way. She was shocked that I said that and immediately had something to say back but I just laughted it off and continued to my other friends. I shook hands with my friend's friends I had never really talked to and chatted up a couple of the girls there. They were ugly, but it was okay practice.
One of the girls ended up spending a majority of the night talking to me, and invited me out to a bday party on Friday at a popular club I like to go to. I think she was trying to get a little kino with me, brushing her leg against mine a lot and moving next to me when there was a free barstool, but again, I wasn't physically attracted to her. I still have a lot of problems with conversation. I zone out a lot, I don't have many stories to tell, and I sometimes I just sit there thinking about what to say when I should be talking. Also, responding to her stories and what she was saying felt awkward. I would just say things like "Oh, that's cool, that's cool. Right. Blah blah blah." I really need more work with staying confident throughout the night.
At the end of the night, I was just really burned out. It might be because my diet is so light that I just don't have the energy to go more than a few hours out of AFC mode in public, or it might just be that I'm still not comfortable and its difficult and taxing on my body to stay bouncy, confident and flirty.
Right now, I just have too much free time. What I want to do is read some more game/self-improvement books, so any suggestions would be great. I'm trying to start more projects with business (I work from home, online), but I get distracted far to easily and find it hard to focus on work.
Anyways, thanks for reading my wall of text. I'll try to post here when I feel like I need to.
I've already started self-improvement. The minute she broke up with me, I started hitting the gym thinking a better body would bring her back. Now I'm doing that for me and only me. I've gone down from 88 to 81kg, and added a strict diet that I've stuck to for the past week which has me losing about 2-4 kg a week now. I still got a bit of a muffin top, but its crazy looking in the mirror and seeing a face that more closely resembles the fit, in-shape guy I was when I was 20-21 and still on the prowl before this relationship.
I've started going out a lot more. If I can't find a group to go out with for the night, I get completely bored out of my mind and it drives me insane. I'm not quite ready to go pounce anywhere solo as I'm still in a bit of a shy, AFC mode. I do love to dance my ass off in the club and ignore everything else and just have a good time. I'll say hi to girls around my table, too, but I'm still rubbish at opening and carrying conversation. I only do 2-3 drinks a night so I don't get drunk but have something the cheers with when they come around or I'm opening.
I'm looking for hobbies and activities to do in downtime. Honestly, most of my free time is spent prowling dating sites which gets pretty boring. I live in Thailand (I'm a white foreigner and can speak and write fluent Thai), and the dating scene here just feels odd. A lot of chicks on the site can't speak English very well, so most openers except for "Hey I'm xyz Whats your name" don't ever work (Sarcasm pisses most people off because sarcasm isn't used much in Thai culture, so they take everything you say as serious and honest). Jokes go right over their heads. I'll need to find something that grabs more interest in Thai.
I'm finding I'm also really picky. I see hundreds of Thai girls at clubs, but hardly anything over a 5 or 6. Before my LTR
As for activities, I was thinking possibly hip-hop dancing or breakdancing. I used to breakdance when I was 18-19. Seems like it would be fun and possibly helpful for not making me look like a dumb dancer in clubs.
It's been difficult to maintain NC. When I told her I needed time to be by my own and not to contact me unless its an emergency, she replied with a she understands and sees I am getting over her. She then told me she would block my social networking accounts, which I guess means its been difficult for her to maintain NC from me, too. That took out the hard work of having to block her myself. I still sneak onto her FB and Instagram from time to time through non-blocked way, but since I initiated NC, she hasn't posted any updates.
I wonder if I should stop posting updates, as well, and just drop off the social radar. I'm almost indifferent to the use of Facebook and Instagram. Sometimes I do like to use it for the self-validation and boost to confidence when I see my photos and videos get a lot of comments and likes, mostly from a bunch of girls I've had added from dating sites or met at the club. That seems kind of chumpy though, as confidence should come from within and not from outer sources.
In the back of my mind there is hope that she'll settle down someday and want to come back to a stable relationship (she's told me she just doesn't want a long term relationship at the moment anymore - shes a new international air hostess and big time party girl so she'd rather be free to do what she wants while she's still young), but realistically, I know I shouldn't concern myself with it. I let her know she can come talk to me in person if she wants to talk about the relationship, but unless its an emergency, she just shouldn't contact me.
I'm a bit lost in how sexual I should be getting. It's been 3 months since I've had sex. Before the break up, because my ex was always flying, and then just partying, I was only getting laid about once a month. A couple days ago, a girl started masturbating on cam for me (maybe a 6 without the face, 4 with it). I wasn't showing my body, but in the act, I eventually just started to feel bad and get depressed and ended the cam session. I can't tell if maybe she was too ugly for me to get into it, or I'm just not going to be able to move on and be sexual with anyone for a while. I want sex, but I don't know if it will hurt me more or will help me move on at this point.
Yesterday I went out with friends to a Japanese pub and attempted to be much more alpha. I walked in happy, loud and confident. One of my friend's friends is always kind of *****y towards me and makes me feel a bit AFC (It's just the way she is around some people, my friend said, she doesn't hate you - she just shows her friendship with you off like a total *****). I immediately walked in, hugged her from behind and asked her "Are you getting fatter?" (This is a common and not a rude question to ask in Thailand) in a smug and snarky way. She was shocked that I said that and immediately had something to say back but I just laughted it off and continued to my other friends. I shook hands with my friend's friends I had never really talked to and chatted up a couple of the girls there. They were ugly, but it was okay practice.
One of the girls ended up spending a majority of the night talking to me, and invited me out to a bday party on Friday at a popular club I like to go to. I think she was trying to get a little kino with me, brushing her leg against mine a lot and moving next to me when there was a free barstool, but again, I wasn't physically attracted to her. I still have a lot of problems with conversation. I zone out a lot, I don't have many stories to tell, and I sometimes I just sit there thinking about what to say when I should be talking. Also, responding to her stories and what she was saying felt awkward. I would just say things like "Oh, that's cool, that's cool. Right. Blah blah blah." I really need more work with staying confident throughout the night.
At the end of the night, I was just really burned out. It might be because my diet is so light that I just don't have the energy to go more than a few hours out of AFC mode in public, or it might just be that I'm still not comfortable and its difficult and taxing on my body to stay bouncy, confident and flirty.
Right now, I just have too much free time. What I want to do is read some more game/self-improvement books, so any suggestions would be great. I'm trying to start more projects with business (I work from home, online), but I get distracted far to easily and find it hard to focus on work.
Anyways, thanks for reading my wall of text. I'll try to post here when I feel like I need to.