This is good escalation game. You are already more forward than most guys, which will take you far.
On most girls you would have had it. With this one, you were on the cusp, but didn't quite go hard enough.
There were a couple of golden opportunities that I think you missed. The main reason is your frame wasn't strong enough. Steady and stalwart... that's what your frame needs to be. Absolutely unshakeable.
Before I point out those particular moments, I want to comment on what exactly that frame should be.
You said this:
I don't think I maintained the frame of her wanting to do me more than me wanting to do her all that well.
I think, in a very nuanced way, you are slightly off with this. It's not about you wanting her less. That's stupid PUA bullshit. The disinterested game is whack. It can work but it isn't genuine, it reeks of being a fake, and it will get you all sorts of resistance and unsatisfying sex. It also tends to work only on insecure, immature, emotionally manipulative girls, which in general you should try to avoid.
A better mindset for this is as follows. It will get you laid more consistently and it will lead to super fun, highly charged sexual experiences. At it's best, it will get girls home to your place without you even having to ask and it will get them in your bed literally begging "Please, please, please" to be fucked. That's how my Saturday went this past weekend and it could be how things for for you very soon too.
So let's look at how to view things:
A) She wants you and it's obvious. In turn you reward her for feeling that way. You like that about her. Girls who are sexual and into you are awesome. Here's a great line that you can use on a date that fully encapsulates this side of the coin, growled in her ear while you pull her hair or pin her to a wall or something: "
I know you want me. You can pretend to be a nice little girl for everyone else but I've got you figured out. I know the dirty things that go through that mind of yours. I bet you were fantasizing about me in class today. Probably getting wet, sitting right there in lecture. You bad girl. Then you can bite her ear or spank the hell out of her or something similarly awesome.
Make sense?
Good.
But let's not forget about the second part of this, and that's you, and it's actually more important.
B) You want her. Bad. And you are on the verge of losing control. This is why I say fuck the disinterested game. You don't want her to think you want her less. You want her to think that you want her so fucking bad that it's taking every ounce of strength in your body to literally NOT tear the t-shirt right off her body. You already started down this road when you told her it was difficult to behave around her. That's golden. More of that, but be consistent with it. Now the caveat here, and I think this is what you may have been implying, is that if you don't actually get to bang her, it's water off your back. Not a big deal. She needs to know that you are not going to get mad if she doesn't bang you and also that you aren't a desperate creep.
Still making sense? OK then, let's move to the specific instances where I think you could have turned this around...
Quote:
We head to the couch, and make out some more. I pull her dress up and run my hands over her legs and butt. She mentions she's not ready for that yet. I put on a quizzical look: "Ready for what?" She laughs and says, "You know..." I laugh and say, "Oh of course, I'm not ready for that either."
You can play dumb with your words here, and still say "Ready for what?" but keep going physically. So when she says "I'm not ready for that" you say something like "I... have... no... idea... what... you're... talking... about..." and during each of those little pauses, you are kissing her neck or even better, slowly moving down her body until you are basically licking her legs while saying that.
In the second part of that exchange "Oh of course, I'm not ready for that either." You could do that in the exact same way I just described above. Or you could get very dominant about it and pull her hair and growl in her ear "Are you sure? I don't believe you. I think you've been waiting for this since the moment we met."
Or you could even pull all the way back and say "Look, we're just enjoying ourselves, but I would never make you do something you don't want to do." This is precisely what you should do if she is maybe being a bit more serious in her concerns... and YOU SHOULD MEAN IT.
But in any case, "Oh of course, I'm not ready for that either" is inauthentic, untrue, and manipulative and unless you say it in a way that's it's clear that you are ready for that (i.e. while simultaneously physically escalating), it'll set off her red flags that you're being a weasel. You are definitely ready for it. She knows it. You know it. So just be honest and forthright about it by continuing to escalate or by completely backing off it that's what she really needs.
I hope this makes sense and I hope it helps. I'm not trying to be tough on you or anything like that but I see you are right on the brink of putting this all together and I want you to succeed, and to succeed in a way that's genuine and feels good for both of you.
Cheers!