So I quickly realized that a number-close means shit. I have had surprising success getting numbers (who knew it was this easy) but I am still struggling to transitioning this into dates/day 2/meet up.

I've read about text game and it's definitely helped but I feel I'm still missing some magic ingredient. I have the same routine after getting a number: I immediately phone them and tell them I'm doing this so they have my number; my first text is "I totally just saw something that reminded me of you!" which is met with a "Haha what?!?" and I say "I can't say... it's a secret." and if they persist I just say "I'm a tease" or some variation to be flirty/sexual. I think I'm setting a pretty good pace off the hop but this still isn't getting me my end result (another meet-up).

What's your guys text plans/game to get a meet up? Do you try to have minimal convo or go more in depth? I don't use routines but over a text this is as close as I'm getting. I swear my meet up percentage after getting a number is like 20%, it's rattling as hell cuz I know my game has improved tremendously and I'm so fucking close to an endless parade of beautiful woman that I can taste it. Advice from the guru's please. I have a feeling this could go back to my closing ability when I'm getting the number. Probably closing weakly and it's something I'm working on. Thanks guys.

It doesn't matter shit. Girls are this way man. Learn this. One moment they seem super interested, the other moment they forget to text. One day you don't hear from them, the other moment they are all over you.

I had this girl who I texted and she flaked and I didn't do anything anymore and now a month later she starts on fb chatting up to me. Take a fire-arrow, put it in a bucket, light the fuse on fire. Now take a run at the bucket and kick it as hard as you can. Trace the trail of the arrow with your eyes; now you have an idea of the consistency of the female mind.

@Mr. Marville - Although I agree with your premise that women can be all over the place, I can't accept your answer as "that's the way she goes." Fuck that. I'm gonna figure this shit out, cuz it's my major sticking point and I've come this far, I ain't stopping now.

However, I did find an article about how to text a girl to prevent flaking, and I'll summarize the important parts. 1) Create a strong hook - this is what I was accomplishing with the "I totally just saw something..." routine.
2) Create an emotional connection - get her to realize you're different than other guys and actually want to understand her.
3) Create a sexual vibe - plant the idea that you are not content with "just being friends" and that she should think of you as a sexual being and a potential sexual partner.

Essentially, I've gone from creating a hook to asking for a hangout. I'm skipping two important steps and thus women probably feel I just want to hook up with them cuz all I'm doing is flirting. I'm gonna try this system out and report back, as I feel I may have found my missing ingredient, so to speak. Also, if you've read this I recommend you try it out and report back with your experiences. Good luck out there!

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Imagine a bowl full of hundreds of small twigs and cocktail-prickers.

Draw a square with an entrance (approach) at one end, and an exit (having sex) at the other.

Turn the bowl upside down in this square. Now find a path from the entrance to the exit.

You will say: "Yay! I found the exit. Let me draw this on a map, let me describe the strategy!"

However as soon as the woman's mood changes, in reality, this means that a whole new bowl of twigs is turned upside down upon your maze, the wind breezes through and your map will be useless.

And now keep in mind that every woman has her own bowl filled with different twigs of an infinite variety of crooks and angles and shapes and sizes.

What works one day, is totally ineffectual the other. Sayings that light up her heart at one moment, can make her go cold the next. Things that one woman falls for, knock the other off. This is because it is impossible to apply a rational foundational strategy to a psyche that is inconsistent with itself. It is like taking away a steering wheel from a ship and trying to apply it to a raft that drifts upon a roiling ocean.

It is not because your reason is impotent but because the subject matter is irreconcilable with rationality. This is why you will inevitably fail. After long and hard trial and error, many relationships, sarging quests and reading PUA self-help books as well as romance novels, you will crawl back to me, exhausted and fatigued, and you will look up from my feet and admit that I was right. At that moment I will open my mouth, gaze down upon your wearied face, and speak the magic words: "Fool! Only a callous man learns from experience what he cannot be taught by the words and experiences of others."

The ancient civilizations and philosophers knew that I was right, from Plato and Aristotle to Confucius, Montesquieu and Rousseau, not to mention the religions like Christianity and Islam. They all emphasize a strong need for family bonds and controlled environments to bring up the women into being reliable wives. Let the facts of history speak for themselves, and observe that the Romans introduced Lex Papia Poppaea to halt the decline of their civilization once it began to set in.

At some points, you will have a lucky streak, rest in comfort with a young lass in your arms, and forget my words, sleeping in the illusion to have found the "magic formula." But at other times, an uneasy feeling will well up in you, and at those times you will remember my words. In time this feeling will swell to the insight that I was right.

You are like Lancelot searching for the Holy Grail. There is no Holy Grail, no magic formula or sure-fire strategy. The only thing you can do is having confidence, do many approaches, scout for enthusiasm and stop wasting effort if it doesn't lead anywhere. Keep up personal hygiëne, build up an interesting life for yourself, master the art of conversation. Be a fisherman. Throw out a big net and you will eventually reel something up.