Well I just got back from my last band camp(I'm a senior now) and there's this HB7(IMO) blonde girl named Amanda that I've liked for along time who I think I have oneitis for(She's a junior). I wanted to approach her and had several chances, but I was too afraid of what would happen if I failed, if she thought I was lame or something. I know we've got a lot in common already, but I'm just afraid of approaching her. Basically I was too afraid of what would happen if she rejected me. I thought up a lot of things to talk to her about, but never ended up saying anything because I was too scared. Closest I got to talking to her was when she forget something and I gave it to her.
"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Oneitis band girl.
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
WesCottII
Master Don Juan
One-itis is not a healthy attraction to a girl, it as an attraction bourne of low self esteem. We give away our value to another because we believe having them will validate us. This is not healthy, and when two people share this type of attraction we call it co-dependency. True passion requires the potential of loss on either side, wheras of only the guy or only the girl has given all their value and is acting needy they are likley not to get very far.
Carpe PM, stay away from this girl until you are sorted.
Carpe PM, stay away from this girl until you are sorted.
Thing is, is that I'm really attracted to her, but it's like a feeling of 'if I fail with this girl, I'll never find someone else like her'. And since we'l see eachother a lot it might be awkward if she rejected me.WesCottII said:
WesCottII
Master Don Juan
Thats crap and you know it. Why would you never have another chance with a girl? Even when I wasn't activly approaching there was always some girl I saw on a regular basis.
Oneitis isn't good, I just got over it, it kills game and you NEVER get the girl. Stay away from her man.
Oneitis isn't good, I just got over it, it kills game and you NEVER get the girl. Stay away from her man.
Putting aside the oneitis issues here, I say go for it. Two things can happen, both good:
1. You get the girl.
2. You get shot down and learn you'll survive.
There are so many women out there that it makes any one woman insignificant. You'll get shot down time and time again, and each time you'll get a little stronger.
Why, just today I got shot down by some woman I've been pursuing for a while when I tried to push it to the next level. My reaction? Oh well, her loss. There's more pvssy right around the next corner.
Take it from an old head...you WILL survive rejection, but you'll gain nothing if you don't try.
1. You get the girl.
2. You get shot down and learn you'll survive.
There are so many women out there that it makes any one woman insignificant. You'll get shot down time and time again, and each time you'll get a little stronger.
Why, just today I got shot down by some woman I've been pursuing for a while when I tried to push it to the next level. My reaction? Oh well, her loss. There's more pvssy right around the next corner.
Take it from an old head...you WILL survive rejection, but you'll gain nothing if you don't try.
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Stacks Of Terror
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Go for it. The main thing is you might not wanna come on as strong as you seem to do in your other approaches. Assuming you want an LTR with her then I would suggest you don't plow, plow, plow!
Arizona iced tea
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usually i would say go for it, but i wouldnt want to see you mess it up. wait till you get some good results with other girls before you blow your chances with this one. thats pretty much what i did, i waited till i knew i wouldnt **** up when i finally started hanging out with my one-itis, and so far everything is going great. but had i just gone for it a while ago, it probably wouldnt have been so pretty... so just put her on a shelf in the back of your head for a few months, get comfortable, lose the prince story, and go for it 
GaryUranga
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oneitis sucks, its liek an adiction, just stop taking the drug diversify your options and then when YOURE in control you can decide if you want to go for it, thats what Im doing right now, its way harder when you and the girl had somethign goign on and you got really attached to her
sandman6991
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If she's an HB 7...how in the hell could you not find anyone else like her?
Stacks Of Terror
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Oneitis is the name obsession is the game.sandman6991 said:
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
penkitten
Master Don Juan
two choices:
1. stop being scared of what other people think, and do what you need to do. you will either get a date or get shot down but you will have no regrets later.
2. stay scared of talking to people and secretly pine for them, unaware if they really would have given you the time of day or not.
1. stop being scared of what other people think, and do what you need to do. you will either get a date or get shot down but you will have no regrets later.
2. stay scared of talking to people and secretly pine for them, unaware if they really would have given you the time of day or not.
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
I was too afraid of what would happen if I failed
Then do it the right way.
First, don't do it the wrong way.
Wrong way: "I think you're pretty/have crush on you. Will you go on a date with me?"
That's how most guys do it. Here's the right way:
"Hey. I'm doing ____ later (something not obviously a date, like dinner, movie, coffe, etc). Come with me."
Either she will or she won't, but she will if she likes you, or if she really can't, then she will apologize like crazy for it. The point is that you are asking her to join you in something that you are already going to do anyway. If she says yes, then when it happens, spend the time making her wonder if you really like her and if she is on a date or not. Push and pull.
Then do it the right way.
First, don't do it the wrong way.
Wrong way: "I think you're pretty/have crush on you. Will you go on a date with me?"
That's how most guys do it. Here's the right way:
"Hey. I'm doing ____ later (something not obviously a date, like dinner, movie, coffe, etc). Come with me."
Either she will or she won't, but she will if she likes you, or if she really can't, then she will apologize like crazy for it. The point is that you are asking her to join you in something that you are already going to do anyway. If she says yes, then when it happens, spend the time making her wonder if you really like her and if she is on a date or not. Push and pull.