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I don't know the guy who wrote this but I saw it somewhere and wanted to share...

The problem most guys have with dating and relationships...

The naïve guy in the dating world…

I’ve heard tale that only 20% of young men are succeeding with 80% of the young women out there, and it likely has a ring of truth to it. Why does this seem to be the case? Is this because that 20% of young men are jerks and that young women are attracted to jerks? This is the excuse that we usually hear but do you actually buy into that? I don’t, and I will explain why.

I have been involved in the dating scene for a long time and I have been working with men and relationships via online forums, discussions, face to face conversations, etc for at least 4 years. What I see and what I have learned is that the vast majority of relationship situations seem to follow certain patterns and trends.
One pattern by itself isn’t usually enough to figure out exactly what’s going on in a given situation, but when you see several patterns that all follow the trend you can get a pretty good idea of what is going on, even without knowing the situation personally. You might find an exception to the rule here and there, but when multiple patterns all follow a certain trend (and they usually do) then I have learned to dissect such scenarios with very high accuracy.

There are many things that men typically do wrong in relationships & dating which cause them to remain single and/or get used & discarded by their partner.

What I will focus on first is how naïve guys can be. I cannot even begin to tell you how naïve most guys are. I couldn’t name how many times I have seen a scenario where a guy asks for help regarding a girl and his story begins with things like, “OMG she is so incredible! She is so smart, so nice, we have a lot in common, we talk all of the time for hours on end, she tells me that she doesn’t know what she would do with out me, I love her, etc” and then they lead into the problem they are having. The problem could be about asking her out, going into how she has been distant in their relationship lately, how the ex boyfriend came back into the picture, she doesn’t know what she wants, she’s not ready for a relationship, she’s been hurt, etc. It doesn’t matter. When I see the story start off like this, I already see one of those trends developing.
As I mentioned, the trends tend to follow the same pattern with very few exceptions. When a guy starts off by trying to tell everyone how great and amazing the girl is, I already see their inexperience and how naïve they are-especially when they cannot move on from the girl. When this is the case, the next trend tends to be that it doesn’t work out.

I could point out over 100 stories from guys who think that their crush is the best girl on the planet and how they couldn’t imagine going on without her. Just from my little view I see this same story all of the time and it really is a naïve/immature way of looking at things. Being this naïve and immature very likely plays a role in why the girl isn’t hooking up with the guy, and as such, this naïve mindset needs to be addressed.

For one, the girl isn’t the best girl in the world. That whole point of view is skewed and it is fueled by infatuation and immaturity. If there are countless guys claiming that their girl is the best, then are all of these girls the best? Or is everyone wrong but you? Or is it instead that there are PLENTY of fish in the sea that you could be equally attracted to and the problem lies with the guy himself? Trust me, it is the latter. However these naïve guys don’t see it this way. They see this one girl as the one, and most of the time they haven’t even dated her yet. Not only that, but most of the time the girl isn’t even interested in him. Does he respect her decision and move on? No, he shamelessly disrespects her decision, disrespects his feelings, and makes an utter fool of himself by continuing to try and change her mind rather than move on. He does this all because she is so great and different, and in many cases has wasted years of his life by doing this.

The fact is that she is not different. She is just as good as many other women out there no matter how much his childish infatuation tells him otherwise. He does himself a huge disservice by clinging to this flawed and immature mindset. But that’s not all. This infatuation, this placing of her on a pedestal, this worshipping also builds the foundation for failure. You see these failures come to fruition when guys like this somehow manage to secure a relationship with his crush.

You see, a successful adult relationship requires two mature and equal individuals whom have equal amounts of respect for each other. When one partner enters the relationship while placing the other upon this pedestal they create a small hierarchy with their crush on top. Things aren’t equal, it’s all about the person on top and what he can do to please her, make her happy, make her love him, etc.
Unfortunately this formula only works in the movies. In the real world in order to get respect you must not only give it, you must demand it in return. If you do not and you only try to respect your partner while ignoring the disrespect given in return, you create a situation where they can disrespect you freely. And they will continue to do so because they can, because you are too weak to put an end to it.
What does this weak behavior cost you? It costs you your partners respect, and without their respect you cost the relationship it’s future. If your partner doesn’t respect you then they are not “in love” with you. A relationship lacking love, lacking that chemistry, lacking that challenge will inevitably fail. The person who lacks that love for their partner will inevitably be lured elsewhere. I see it all of the time.

This is why those naïve guys have so much trouble. A girl who fails to see this weak guy for whom he is and ends up being in a relationship with him before learning about his immaturity, the trends show that she will inevitably become distant, sometimes angry, sometimes take advantage of him, etc. Any self respecting guy would end the relationship at this point, but these guys do not. They cling because this is their pedestal woman. It doesn’t get better than her (in their naïve mindset) so they continue to humiliate themselves by clinging to her harder than ever-which is the very reason she became distant to begin with. Inevitably it will end, sometimes with her having cheated or having found another man first.

Now if the girl picked up on these naïve behaviors from the beginning and wasn’t attracted to him for his weakness, most of these guys continue to cling to her like the above guy did. They continue to waste time, continue to follow her around, continue to hope that she will change her mind. But she won’t, and nor should she. There is nothing attractive about a guy who has such low self value where he throws himself desperately at someone. Happiness comes from within. These guys can’t find it by placing the burden on someone else. No girl wants that burden nor will find a guy like this to be attractive. At least not for long.

In order to be attractive to someone else, you must not only believe that you are worthy, but you must act like it as well. A guy who is worth something wouldn’t cling to a girl who rejected him. Think about it from her perspective. She just told a guy that she wasn’t interested and all he did with that rejection was continue to want her and vie for her attention.
Did he demonstrate any self value? No. If he doesn’t have it then how is she supposed to see it? A person who had self value and self respect would not continue to throw himself at someone who didn’t want him. He would move on.
The same goes for the guy who is in a relationship. If his girl does cheat or disrespect him, would a man of self value ignore this and plead for her to come back? She had just committed the biggest insult to him possible! His reaction is to want her back? That shows just how little the guy thinks of himself and even if she did come back the relationship is doomed because no one will be happy in a relationship with someone who thinks so little of themselves.

When you see 20% of the young men out there getting 80% of the young women, what you end up seeing is the other 80% of guys as her “friend”, as the naïve guy who continues to go after the girl despite her rejection. You see this other 80% of men being the guy who lets his girlfriend walk all over him, disrespect him, and eventually cheat on him with one of the other 20% of guys out there.

This isn’t about “scoring”, this is about happiness, and you can’t have it by having so little self respect and being so naïve.

Guys need to grow up. The vast majority of guys out there live in fantasy land. They have no idea how it really works and they believe that all you need in a relationship is to kiss the hind end of a girl. There is nothing fun for a girl with a guy who kisses her rear all day. She’s going to end up finding her fun elsewhere.

So how do you avoid being this pushover? How do you become one of the successful 20%? It’s not hard at all. All it takes is growing up and learning that you should respect yourself first and foremost. Respecting yourself means that you do not tolerate people using you. Respecting yourself means pursuing your goals. I’ve heard that if you want to avoid the friendzone then you must refuse to go there from the very beginning. If you start getting friendzoned then pull the brakes, make it clear where you want this to go. If you still head in the friendzone direction with someone, call it off. Move on. Don’t ever settle. Think about yourself, otherwise you will end up being unhappy.

What are young women looking for? Women will tell you a lot of things, but what women respond to are confidence, self respect, challenge, and fun. If you refuse to settle and you make it clear you will not go into friendzone, nor be taken advantage of, you already demonstrate the first three. The only other thing left is to be fun.

Fun does not involve sitting down with her and talking about your relationship, where you want it to go, how she is the best thing since sliced bread, etc. Fun is more about DOING. You want her to be your girlfriend? Don’t talk to her about it, ask her out on a date without telling her how much you like her, then go on the date and have FUN. Do this and keep directing the relationship toward your goal through actions, not through words.

That is one of the most common problems I see with the other 80% of guys. All they do is talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, and more talk. There is no fun in this. It’s time to stop talking and start doing. Take the lead, start planning things, start doing things, and no more talk about it. No more asking if it’s okay. DO IT. If you start talking then she will run you in circles. She expects you to be in the drivers seat, not the passenger seat.

To make things fun, flirt with her, tease her about stuff, keep things light and fun, take her on dates while making sure she knows it’s a date. Take the lead, do things. Before you know it you two will be a fun happy couple. If she betrays something, or disrespects you, it goes back into what I mentioned before. You must stand up for yourself and demand that she respects you, even if it costs the relationship. If she does it while disregarding your feelings, you must end it. If you do not then you only teach her that she can do this to you and get away with it. It will happen again and again until she has lost enough interest in you and leaves on her own.

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The honey doesn't chase the bee.

A wise man once said "I find that a duck's opinion of me is influenced by whether or not I have bread."

The one thing I noticed I keep doing, and it's very strong annoying inside is: fantazising/idealizing, then feeding the stupid feelings of the fantasy via attention; scenario repetition, or reinforcement through reference females mind scenarios.

I have to see this shit clearly (means I don't see this, or don't want to ). Not shure how to stop it, tho. Any tips?
Talking about monkey mind, running wild... haha

This is article is very neutral territory, is where you begin from, and I think I should considerate this read seriously.

PS.:
Somehow, I get the kind of attention from chicks like the guys of the twenty percent, but I mess it up like most of the eighty.
So something is profoundly lacking, or maybe is something I carry extra.

Thanks for the article, Star.

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GMST

Great Article, thanks for sharing.
What helped me realise that no person is special... First was reading articles like this, so being aware is first step.
Then just seeing girls do normal shit, that would put them down from the pedestal - getting to know them and seeing their negative traits... dude some of them stink like shit. But you have to admit that it's at least a possibility that they are not perfect, which you already are..
Sometimes I was afraid of giving this illusion up, not sure why. Perhaps fear of unknown, "If not this girl, than who ?!"

You'll then start seeing, that every person have something special about them, and you will also see their negative traits - You'll start seeing girls highly compatible with you, girls that may work (you are not sure yet), and girls you won't date/have sex with/whatever

I think experience with getting to know them deeply, observation and time is all that's needed, sometimes with advice from somebody more experienced and this forum's got some guys able to do that, so..
I think it's matter of time, Dali

Thanks fufe, I already put them down pedaestal.
It's more like fantasizing being together because I've never been in a formal (gf) relationship so the only resource I have is my imagination and the images of the media (matrix, movies, soaps, tv series) in my head. So the thing is I tend to run similar scenarios with the girls that digg me... hahaha so stupìd I know, it's just the mind anyway, but this images got attachments and I found this attachments (PLENTY) hard to let go. But I will dig deeper.

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GMST

Oh Ok, I didn't know you weren't in formal RL...
The experience depens on the couple - some see each other almost daily, some on weekends, some few times in a month... Some share hobbies, some share friends, some share just bed..
And, relationship is sometimes unpredictable as you wouldn't imagine - What I'd like to say, is that you never know what it will be with the person, and almost always when you asume it will be some way, it will be different.
That has been my experience, I've been in some relationships over time - more than just casual sex.
So let yourself get surprised

I hear ya man, I've been there before as well. I remember I was dating this girl about 3 years ago that was like my perfect type and I was doing that shit, I wanted to get out of it so I started looking for things wrong with her, I remember one night we were talking on the phone and I started to realize by listening to her she wasn't special, she was just as "normal and boring" as everyone else. The guy who wrote this (He went by Zeke) is spot on when he says "No girl is special or different".

About you "messing up". EVERYONE gets disrespected at some point, EVERYONE, and it's just how you handle it, self-respect is number one importance and you have to let it be known that you won't tolerate it (Or Houdini them and take the high road if you realize they're just a fucking idiot), then you'll go back to the 20%...but it's if you want her after that, girls however will always test to see a guys strength of character, so just don't tolerate shit and you won't "mess up", and if she doesn't want you after that then it's her issue, not yours, cause like I said everyone gets dis'd at some point, it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you, it's not "on you", cause it's not only you.

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The honey doesn't chase the bee.

A wise man once said "I find that a duck's opinion of me is influenced by whether or not I have bread."

and always look at the bright side. It could be worst:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFtDmtWoicY

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"a sniper is the worst romancer, he never makes the first move"

Damn!

Well that's what he get he was probably so damn infatuated he wasn't even reading the signs to see if she was marriage material.

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~There's weakness in the hearts of all humans are you afraid to acknowledge yours... ~
Mr. Todo

Hahaha.

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GMST

Good article Star_Above, thanks for posting.

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In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject.He keeps chiseling away at the inessentials until the truth of its creation is revealed without obstructions. Perfection is not when there is no more to add,but no more to take away.

Sometimes disrespect can be subtle. Like I don't see the disrespect until later on. For instance, If I ask a girl a question through SMS and she doesn't answer. Maybe something came up or maybe she put me "on hold." At first I don't care but later I feel disrespected. Passive-aggressive disrespect annoys the shit out of me. Whenever I've called people out on it they play dumb. Anyway, it's true that you should never trade your self-respect. Especially for some girl.