So I have been seeing this girl for two months, and until recently things were great. She laughed at all my jokes, extremely responsive to my teasing, was the one to call me all the time (we are in a long distance relationship), would always randomly text me etc. However, in a moment of weakness I screwed up and went through her phone and asked a friend of hers if I should be worried about anything. Of course, her friend told her I asked and ever since then her IL has dropped off. She isn't as humorous, or as receptive to my humor, doesn't call as much etc. etc. Since then I have been fighting to get it back up by becoming more of a challenge but I have been met with some difficulty. She is coming up this weekend and what I am wondering is if anyone could give me some advice on how to raise it back up, this girl is worth the work.
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Salvage her IL
- Thread starter scipius
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Iceberg
Master Don Juan
Why did you go through someone else's phone? And on top of that, why would you then make her friend aware of this?
You seem to be a bit of a wiener.
You seem to be a bit of a wiener.
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move along...
The fact that you are ranking her interest level with a number system, searching through her phone, and asking her friends about whether or not you should be worried about something tells me that you are too emotionally invested in this girl.
I don't see the relationship lasting too much longer. Either get your **** together and distance yourself (probably not going to happen, you're too far-gone), or just drop her.
I don't see the relationship lasting too much longer. Either get your **** together and distance yourself (probably not going to happen, you're too far-gone), or just drop her.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Iceberg
Master Don Juan
I don't think it comes down to girlish game-playing like that.scipius said:
It's just a matter of not being available to her all the time. Maybe building a life of your own. Maybe a life where you're so busy with learning and adventures that you won't have time for paranoid s**t like sneaking thru your girl's phone.
Just have fun with her. Do not bring up any of the issues that you discussed in your post (looking through her phone etc.). Just drop it entirely. If she brings it up, discuss it as briefly as possible. You want to be dwelling on positive and fun things that you guys will be doing, not negative mistakes you have made.scipius said:
You need to improve other parts of your life so that this girl's importance to you falls to the wayside. This is the only way the relationship will be saved. Right now she is central to your existence.
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
hey man, you can easily salvage this, you just need to project the opposite qualities to which you have already done.
for example, you went through her phone, which probably makes her think that you are a little desperate, needy, and maybe even creepy...
So, do not cancel the weekend with her, just use the weekend to prove to her that you are none of these things.
If you plan something fun with her, my best advice would be -do not act clingy for a single micro second- while you are with her, let yourself be distracted occasionally and wander away from her, i know it seems like a very trivial thing it will have a powerful effect on her.
goodluck and ignore the 'give up' advice.
for example, you went through her phone, which probably makes her think that you are a little desperate, needy, and maybe even creepy...
So, do not cancel the weekend with her, just use the weekend to prove to her that you are none of these things.
If you plan something fun with her, my best advice would be -do not act clingy for a single micro second- while you are with her, let yourself be distracted occasionally and wander away from her, i know it seems like a very trivial thing it will have a powerful effect on her.
goodluck and ignore the 'give up' advice.