Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
What happens, IN HER MIND, is that she comes to see you as WORTHLESS simply because she hasn't had to INVEST anything in you in order to get you or to keep you.
You were an interesting diversion while she had nothing else to do. But now that someone a little more valuable has come along, someone who expects her to treat him very well, she'll have no problem at all dropping you or demoting you to lowly "friendship" status.
Quote taken from The SoSuave Guide to Women and Dating, which you can read for FREE.
It's like a back handed compliment. She's trying to express interest without putting you on a pedestal. Like she's interested, but a guy like you she normally wouldn't give the time of day, so consider yourself lucky, I guess...
I had a woman once tell me on a second date that I wasn’t her type and she usually dated more attractive guys. I ignored. I was facking her an hour later and ghosted her ass. Don’t pay too much attention to what she says, Always follow her actions.
The key word is normally. She was showing interest, so why did you bail instead of asking her out?