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Freeze out? Push/pull? On someone you purport to be your girlfriend?
Dude, come on. Give your head a shake.
Why do you think most of the guys on this site are quipping about not being able to maintain a relationship with a woman? Tactics like those are ego-based. Guys like EddieFews are huge proponents of them, but the reality is they only exacerbate insecurity AND instability (not surprisingly) in the relationship.
The moment you stop playing games in a relationship is when you can make a conscious effort to have something healthy, and live more purposefully.
If you feel you can't be honest to this person about what's going on and how it's influencing you to feel, then examine if that's an issue of yours, or the relationship (e.g., a poor 'fit'). Tactics like freeze outs may get you what you want in the short term, but in the long run they never work, they're actually destructive. Wouldn't you rather a girl come to you out of a WANTING to be around you, rather than a FEAR of losing you? Love or fear, play games you're living out of a fear and won't gain respect from anyone else, particularly women.
N2 I agree with you, but only to an extent I think freezeouts are stupid, but I also think there is a difference between freezing out and pulling back and letting the girl come to you. Of course you want her to have the feeling of wanting you around as opposed to fear of losing you, but I'm sure you know just as well as I do when a girl goes cold 9x out of 10 the only remedy is distance not that you're freezing her, but you're pulling back. By the time she clues in its that fear of losing you that causes her to contact you.
I had a girl I was dating literally go from joking talking having fun to colder than alaska. I tried to do the logical thing ask her if something is wrong what happened all of a sudden (before I had much in the way of game) her only response I'm fine, nothing so I pushed some more hit the wall cut off contact for a week she came running to me. Call it a freezeout or pulling back essentially they're the same thing, but that was the only viable option.
I'm not disagreeing with you. You need to figure out the root cause of the problem, but most of the time the remedy is your absence. Either it causes her to have fear of losing you and contact you or miss the good times you had and want you around.
I personally think freezing should be your last ditch option to break a pattern of neediness, but imo the main difference between freezing and pulling back it when you freeze you don't contact until she's at least texted you twice.
Pulling back is being willing to talk at anytime, but letting her come to you by iniating the convo. Which is what Eddie Fews reccomends most of the time. In fact I had a private convo with him a couple days ago and that's exactly what he said just pull back and let her come to you. The only time I saw him reccomend a freezeout is for a guy who texted a girl 10x in a row with no response in which that was his only viable option.
Anyway that's just my opinion feel free to agree or disagree.