Good thread, a couple of things I could add:
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It's a shame that caring for a girl and trying in a relationship is what dooms it.
Indeed, but at the same time it's something you should embrace and enjoy in a different manner. Relationships are counter-intuitive, the more you push someone away, the more they want you. But they work that way for very biologically astute reasons. For instance, why do girls like guys that OTHER WOMEN want to fuck, and thus, guys that are more likely to cheat on them? Because social proof is a "guarantee" of reproductive value, she assumes you are a good catch because other girls think you are a good catch. Similarily, why do exes come back to you after they get jealous or they think you no longer want them back? Because it communicates to them that you might have actually been a BETTER catch than they thought, and thus attraction drives back up and they're inclined to seek self-affirmation from you.
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Still deciding on whether to go for the ex again or not, but either way I'm just bide my time till she contacts me and I can change the frame? (not sure if I used that correctly, but I'm just waiting for her to come crawling back so I can own her ass basically)
You need to be very careful with this type of thinking. Many times, a guy gets dumped by a girl, discovers game, and then wants to REENGAGE his ex. In reality, it's because his oneitis still lingers in his mind and what he sees in her is a SYMBOL of his past betaness. So in essence, he tries to "change the frame" and start the relationship again to confirm that he has indeed finally become Alpha. This is a poisonous mentality because it encourages guys to lapse into a beta mindset and reinvigorate emotional instability.
Keep this as a rule of them - to conquer a Oneitis is to let go of it; to let go of a Oneitis is NOT to conquer it.
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How do you know she will be crawling back? I mean, i just recently broke up with my girlfriend, and i reduced contact to about 1%. But she s really confident and i dont wanna beg her to get back with me like an AFC. Now first of all, im the one who broke us up so i have the control there. But i cant get her crawling back.
You have no control over this sometimes. The best you can do is roll the dice and see if it works out. If not, move on. Women are hypergamous, if she hypothetically found someone new that she's attracted to, she's likely fully desecksualized you by now and has no intention of "crawling back." On the other hand, you might just not have waited long enough.
You also need to understand why women come back, it's not always becuase they want a relationship. Sometimes it's because they're disturbed by the break up or the fact that you're not talking to them. It tears their ego apart to think they were inadequate in some way. They WANT you to cry over them, to feel "broken" because they left you, to miss them more than anything. Every girl craves to be the "one that got away." Every girl wants you to REGRET that you lost her. So they come back seeking to betatize you in order to give themselves a sense of SELF-AFFIRMATION.
It is every ex girlfriend's greatest fear that who she dates in the future will be dwarfed by who she dated in the past (you). Your job is to give substance to this fear.
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I'm so pissed at him right now for not following through but whatever, every man for himself.
Game is triage. Save the ones you can, leave the rest to get metastasized by the world around them. I understand he's your friend, but it's impossible to "save" someone from a Oneitis. They must do it themselves. The most you can do is introduce him to game and tell him his perception of this whole thing is wrong, but there's no point in fighting over it. More likely, you'll super charge his resolution to stay with his ex because he'll need a stronger cognitive bias to rationalize that his decision to go back to his ex was indeed the correct one.