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Your advice was based on there being another guy. You told him to back off when you believed that there is another guy. Your advice is basically useless and it allows her decision to be for the other guy. So while he's sitting there hoping that she'll come around to him, she'll lose any emotional feelings because of his absence and the presence of the other guy. Then OP feels worse because you've given him false hope that he can fix it with useless advice. I don't get how you can't grasp that.
yes i do believe there's another guy. makes no sense for things to be going well, then they get some space, and suddenly she's saying we gotta slow down and not responding to his invites. either it's another guy or OP has made some serious mistake demonstrating neediness or controlling behavior, which i don't think he has.
now when she makes that declaration, both you and neo say to ask her and clarify what she means by "slow down." i would not do that. it opens the door to a negative, frame-destroying response. again, if they're dating for 2 years things are different. 3 weeks in, you don't want to have a serious talk like this, especially from a position of her defining what "slow it down" means, i.e. her instructing you, her the teacher, you the student.
and he does not just sit there twiddling his thumbs while another guy bangs the girl he's after. he goes and games other girls and demonstrates high value and non-needy behavior. who knows maybe he finds a better girl that day. the difference between what i'm offering and what you're offering is that my way casts a wider net. you don't just sacrifice the girl and the sex and move on.
he's already fucked her well enough, we both agree he has a hook in. so why on earth wouldn't you be advising OP to freeze her out, create an absence, potentially get her missing his d and whatnot? is there seriously a better way? is he supposed to *keep* annoying her and moving too fast? why wouldn't he start making her contact him, chase him? you act like you have this magical other way up your sleeve. if so, please tell OP... it's the whole reason he's here mind you.
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Yeah...it is odd that not one person has jumped in and said that your advice was better or even had the chance of working and no one other than you is saying that I'm giving bullshit advice in 300+ views. Should make you think a little bit, right?
again, your advice is going to have OP back here in a month, wondering why the next girl he got with suddenly wants to slow things down. if he just took your first response and left, he'd have no clue why she was saying that. instead of saying something like "let her tell you she likes you first," which literally makes all the difference in the world, you leave OP hanging in the clouds, with a vague impression that he should somehow do what he wants. does that mean he should move too fast every time? according to you, yes.
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I haven't blurred any lines. The thing is that you are blurring "how-I-feel bullshit" with accepting and not accepting situations that you don't want. That is worse than moving too fast. You can move too fast and lose the girl...it happens. But being in a relationship and the rules of that relationship being dictated to you is far worse if you don't like those rules. My opinion is that he wanted something different than she did and if she got her way, she'd be happy but he wouldn't. He'd be the submissive and she'd eventually leave him high and dry. That's prolonged misery and it's harder to recover from. That's a harder lesson to learn than slow down, but it's way more important.
the situation he doesn't want is the situation where the girl even says "i want to slow down" to begin with. he put himself in that situation. now, after the fact, you're coming in and saying "do not accept a situation you don't want." whereas i'm saying "here's how you don't get into that situation to begin with. and here's how you may be able to get out of this situation."
if your advice alone is to be accepted, OP will, out of ignorance, continue to create situations he does not want, and then, following your advice, not accept them.
that's all i got. if you can't get that, we agree to disagree i guess.