"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Ok, so I'm a little confused and alot frustrated about when a woman tells me that they're soo busy and don't have time to say... setup a date with you or make it difficult to setup a date with them, but have high IOIs when in fact they are clearly not as busy as they make themselfs out to be. I know that this probably means they are not too interested in you, but lets assume this is not the case. Let me give an example of a situation I'm in which seems to be the exception.

First, how do we define busy? Well about me, I work full time during normal business hours M-F unless I'm on a project then occasional weekends and also side jobs, I was also doing school, I attend seminars and conferences, I workout, play sports and do hobbies, run errands, browse sosuave, hang out with friends, and other misc tasks to maintain myself. Now some would say that would be considered being really busy, but does this mean I couldn't find a way to do something I wanted to do like say... go on a date? No! It's about managing your time and deciding if something is worth your time or not and then executing. Let's face it, If everyone here had something that they really wanted to do I'm very certain that everyone here could find a way to make it happen.

With that said let's get to the point of this thread. Lately I've been dating women who give me this BS about being soo busy and unavailable. I say it's BS because it clearly is and I am actually offended that they want me to believe this stuff. One woman I've been seeing for about 4 months always gives me this "busy" BS. She works a normal job and has only a few friends she sees. She goes to the gym, but she will very easily blow it off to hang with a friend or whatever. When I try to setup a date with her, she tells me I need to do it more in advance and for the most part when I call her she does not return the call for a few days or even longer. She is not dating any other guys by the way. Other than that this is all she does and has no other activities that she is involved in. How the heck can you be "busy" with so little going on? Part of it is she is really lazy from what I can tell. She is always late showing up on our dates and always complains about having to drive to my house. Now when we do go out I end up with her back at my place and having sex.

On the other hand, I've just started dating an ER Nurse who has 2 kids and works nights 12-14 hour days who would work all night take her kids to school in the morning and then come up to my job to have lunch with me just so she could see me while having to be back to work again in a few hours. I know plenty of other people who rack 60-70 hour weeks who find the time to do things like date and ect...

So since I'm seeing this more, I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle these so called "busy" women. Should I expect them to make the effort to make time to see me and if not just next them? I feel that a woman will make an effort if she is interested, but maybe I'm wrong. The way I see it, as a man I have to make myself appear unavailable just so I am a challenge, but if the woman is doing it as well then it ends up being a stalemate. You will never get anywhere.

So what's the best way to handle these kinds of women? Please post your experiences or opinions.
 

"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.

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darkjedi said:
Ok, so I'm a little confused and alot frustrated about when a woman tells me that they're soo busy and don't have time to say...
I get tired of these excuses too. I own my own business. If I can make time for friends, then...

And yeah, there are certain cases where people ARE busy. Or they have a perfect excuse to use the busy card when they're not in the mood to hang out. That would be a death in the family, or a near death... Maybe where you're sick, or taking care of a parent with health issues.

Either way, though, past a certain point, you have to drop them. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, and I'll let them be busy. But then either way I'm done with them for a while.

And as a side point, I hate it when people are late (you never want a girlfrend who is "late"! lol)... I took the time and planniing to show, and it's disrespectful to be late. And, while I might be kind about how I tell people it annoys me, I try to let them know that I find it unacceptable. And if the person is always late to things, then past a certain point, I don't deal with them.
 

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darkjedi said:
So since I'm seeing this more, I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle these so called "busy" women. Should I expect them to make the effort to make time to see me and if not just next them?

So what's the best way to handle these kinds of women? Please post your experiences or opinions.

They are not too busy, you just don't look like Brad Pitt. Think she would be too busy for him?

Would you ever be too busy for Angelina?

I don't look like Brad either.
 

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Angelina is ugly as fvck.

She's not busy she just doesn't want to be with you. You should be more fun to be around.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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I just started a topic about a very similar situation. She was extremely available at first and now she makes herself more and more unavailable but still shows some signs of interest. Maybe with some of them it's an attempt to play the game and seem like they're hard to get... Who knows?

The best thing to do is ignore them.
 

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DonJuan11 said:
They are not too busy, you just don't look like Brad Pitt. Think she would be too busy for him?

Would you ever be too busy for Angelina?

I don't look like Brad either.
This is a good point and also gave me a few other things to consider. I highly doubt that a woman would say they were too busy for someone they were very interested in. Even though in this case it's a popular entertainer, we also have to consider that he could replace the woman any time he wanted even if things were perfect. What I'm getting at is maybe just having the option to next a woman and having her know she is easily replaced would make her become all the suddenly more "available".
 

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Probably.

I forgot who said it, but if a woman wants to see you, she'll invent excuses to see you. I've had girls call in to work to spend the day with me. I've had girls who were afraid of the freeway drive all the way across town at 1 in the morning to pick me up and take me back to their place.

When they claim to be "busy," it usually means I did something wrong in the gaming phase that caused her to lose attraction. It sucks because half the time I still can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
 
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