We
tend to think of “playing hard to get” as a bad thing. The word
“playing” is in the term so automatically we think of playing games and
being dishonest.
The
term has gotten such a bad rap that many of us vigorously practice the
art of doing the opposite—of being as open and forthcoming as possible,
of over-sharing and baring it all on the first date. But this can have
its repercussions too.
Playing hard to get used to be the way to go
There’s a reason “playing hard to get” was the way to go for centuries before
this era of having a therapist as a hobby, and tweeting your every
emotion. Maintaining some privacy doesn’t necessarily mean being
emotionally constipated. It’s also just a form of valuing yourself, and
showing the world that you’re selective of who you let in, which makes
being let in by you seem all the sweeter. This works especially with
women.
Women want to earn everything you give them
Like with anything in life, rewards are
more enjoyable when earned. Why do you think the guy that sits on the
street corner cat calling anything in a skirt never gets a number?
Because those women didn’t have to do anything to get his attention besides exist. And there’s nothing enticing about that.
We’re much more than just a pretty face
The best “womanizer”—pardon the
expression—is an incredible empathizer. He constantly practices the
exercise of stepping outside his own body, and his own thoughts, and
imagining what it’s like to be the woman that he is pursuing. He gets in
her head. And that man recognizes that a woman is not just a pretty
face. She is a complete being, with years of life lived behind
her, with stresses about work, plans to achieve her goals, and ideas of
how she’ll resolve that fight with her best friend buzzing through her
head.
Women want to feel tapped into
A man doesn’t have to be a mind reader to win a woman over. You can’t possibly know exactly what
a woman is stressed about or what her goals are. But you simply need to
be aware that those exist. Because once you’re aware of that—that there
is an entire being behind that pretty face—you realize just how petty
the, “Hey gorgeous” line comes off to a woman. She needs to be
complimented on a much deeper level to even give you the time of day.
The first compliment will make or break you
You see if you give a woman a
compliment too quickly, she won’t appreciate it. She won’t feel all
giddy and intrigued, as you’d hoped she would. And what use is a
compliment if it flies right over her head? And once it does fly right
over her head, you’ve pretty much lost that woman forever. A woman
guages your level of intellect and sensitivity based on when and how you
compliment her for the first time. She guages your ability to get her based on this, too.
Which is why you have to wait to compliment her
Tell a woman she’s beautiful within the
first minute of speaking to her, and she thinks, “Great. So he can
recognize symmetrical facial features and nice hair. So can an infant.”
But tell a woman she is beautiful twenty minutes into speaking to her
and she feels that you’re seeing much more than just the way she looks.
She feels that her personality, the way she made you laugh, or how
intelligent she ismade you suddenly see her as a potential mate. This,
of course, is not how the male mind works at all. You’ve been looking
at her as a potential mate since she walked in the bar.
But women need to feel they won you over
Women need to feel that you first saw
them as just another regular person, and that after you observed them
and picked up on subtle details about them, it “clicked” for you that
they could make a great mate. And that moment when it “clicked” is when
you paid that first compliment.
But if you paid that compliment too soon…
A woman feels that what you saw in her up until the moment you paid the compliment, is all you will ever see. Because we believe the moment you pay that first compliment, is the first moment
you ever looked at us as a potential mate. And if you’re already
looking at us that way one minute into conversing…well that doesn’t say
much for your standards. Not to a woman it doesn’t.
This concept works for any stage in a relationship
When you are finally dating a woman
somewhat regularly, the next thing she wants to earn is your commitment
to her. That’s why after getting that first date, you don’t want to jump
into inviting her to meet your parents and move in together. Similar to
how after one minute of conversing, a woman doesn’t believe you should
have gathered enough information on her to know if you want one date
with her, she also doesn’t believe that after only a couple weeks of
dating you should have gathered enough information on her to know if you
want to spend your life with her.
We never want to feel replaceable
Women need to feel that you observed
them for ample time and picked up on what exactly about them would make
them a good life partner. We never want to feel that just anybody would
have sufficed. We never want to feel replaceable,which is exactly what we feel if anything is given to us too quickly.
We worked hard to be who we are
You know how you’ve had a hard life?
Sure you have. You’ve had struggles. You’ve overcome hardship. You have
issues with your parents. You have things you’re insecure about. You
have layer upon layer within you. Those are all the things that today
make you a strong, stable, loveable person. You worked hard to get where you are as an individual!
Well guess what? So did that woman you’re interested in!
A woman needs to feel that you see
every layer of her to feel satisfied with your affections for her. She
will not settle for a man that likes or loves her only after having seen
the top layers. She didn’t struggle through half a lifetime, to have
most of who she is ignored or looked over. And that’s exactly how a woman feels when you compliment her too soon, or ask her out too soon, or ask her to marry you too soon—that you’ve ignored part of who she is. That you didn’t even care to get that information. Love it or hate it, a woman needs you to get that information in order to feel close to you.
We also want to feel that you know what you’re doing
A slow man is also a learned man, as
far as dating goes. The man that’s never had a serious relationship
jumps right into one. He wouldn’t even know what traits to look for, or
avoid, so he doesn’t know the value of taking his time to look for those before committing.
But a man that’s been around the proverbial block…
Knows what works and what doesn’t for him. And a woman knows that a man that takes his time to commit really means it
when he finally does commit. He’s not suddenly going to disappear
because something surprised him. He already took the time to make sure
there would be no surprises. That’s why when a woman is made to wait for
commitment, she can just relax in the knowledge that that guy isn’t going anywhere, once he does commit. The trial period is over.
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