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Are you really gonna change yourself for this girl? I mean you're going to stop doing things you want to do such as cuddling and talking to her to manipulate her into tying you down.
Following that logic if I approach a girl on a street which I wouldn't normally approach because of AA, then I also changed myself for a girl, didn't I? Doesn't mean I would stop doing it for always. I would just stop it for some time until she gets more invested.
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Ask her to head out after sex nicely. If she asks why, tell her that you and her are behaving like an exclusive couple , not the FWB you are, and you don't want to complicate things.
In the night after sex or in the morning? Also unsure what is polite way to ask her that. "Can I call you a cab if that is ok?" - especially in the middle of the night nothing sounds too nice.
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These are details you left out that are quite important, and I think this issue may need to be handled more swiftly and with less mercy.
Think about this: Your girl wants to have all the benefits (intimacy, snuggling, eating meals, talking in bed, etc) of an exclusive relationship while still having the option to suck another guy's dick (or to find someone better).
You're being disrespected. Make yourself scarce, pull back. If she asks why, tell her why. If she has a problem with it, walk. But do it in a non-angry, non-emotional way. Cool as a cat.
Didn't realized those were important details. And I see your point.
So situation got complicated and I think it might be over. Last night I went over to her place, she made food, we fucked, we talked. And she goes : "Do you think we should stop seeing each other after graduation?". I said "Why would we? I think we should just see where it goes?". And she goes "It has to end eventually, I don't want to get attached to you - and it will be easier for both of us after long period of not seeing each other" (we are both graduating in 2 weeks - me from MBA, she from college - and I will stay in New York before starting to work end of June while she goes back to Massachusetts for 2 months before starting work in NYC in mid July - which of course is not far so easily we could see each other over this period at least 2-3 times).
Second thing I learned yesterday is that another reason why she doesn't want to be in relationship is that she doesn't trust men. And when I asked if someone cheated on her she goes "No. Nobody did. But I don't want to talk about it". And she goes - "I just want something easy".
So my take-aways are as following:
- she did get hurt by someone and now really doesn't want to be in relationship even if she is invested in someone
- she obviously already got attached to me and invested in this thing
- And because of that I believe now that she will drop me when we graduate
- I think this is generally her tactics now - start dating someone on casual basis, when you get invested drop him and find another one.
So I am thinking about one of the following ways to act:
A. Drop her first and forget - will definitely make me feel better than if I get dropped
B. Drop her in a more nice way. Sort of "Listen. I thought about stuff you told me last night and I think you are right - we should stop seeing each other in this way, it's too much drama. But I want to continue the contact, I think you're cool" - just to leave her in the orbit and maybe re-approach when she gets over her shit, if I am still interested (also would give me time to evaluate if she really was that awesome of a person to Eddie's point)
C. Since now I know she is invested but it started being a problem to her that she is - do exactly what Arch said - in a merciless way: "Make yourself scarce, pull back. If she asks why, tell her why. If she has a problem with it, walk. But do it in a non-angry, non-emotional way" and look at how she reacts and how she makes a choice - either she follows her discipline and walks because she is invested in it or she decides to give up her discipline and reevaluates what she wants at the moment. If she drops me then she drops me if not then not.
Anyway - we have probably 2 dates left before graduation - one on this Saturday and one after I am back from my graduation trip - probably Saturday week later or even after that. I am definitely not texting her at all until Saturday (when I will text her place and hour) unless she asks something more important than "How are you doing?" that I will feel I have to answer. I am also thinking about cutting contact at all over my graduation trip (which lasts 5 days).
I completely haven't seen this conversation yesterday coming - and it acted as a bucket of cold water straight in my face. I finally got my balls back and think I will go back to my old lifestyle (in fact I already set up a date with other girl for tonight). Just really unsure what is the best way to proceed in this situation with this girl (I still like her and ideally would either keep dating her casually or at least kept her around)