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I have noticed an interesting phenomenon in my interactions with women. If the women does something that seems like an obvious "shit-test", I just shut off. My attraction plummets and I don't care anymore.

Case in point: I was talking to this chick last night. It was going ok. I am so used to woowoo type stuff that just talking normally almost seems weird. Anyway, at some point, she walks to her friend who is standing adjacent while I'm mid-sentence. Boom. My attraction was gone. I locked myself in the vicinity scoping out other chicks. She kept giving me BL indicators for re-approach. She even turned to me to talk to me and got out one word but was interrupted by her friend. But I didn't want to re-approach. Eventually, she got it and moved away.

Is this normal? Or do I have too much of an ego?
To an extent it's good that you react to BS by getting turned off rather than chasing more - but yes as I think you suspect, you are over-reacting to it. So unlike a lot of guys you don't react to this stuff by supplicating or feeling like you can't approach. But LIKE a lot of guys who are beginning, you are sensitive to perceived rudeness when talking to new women. As you do more approaches you will care less and less about women doing things that are rude. I think it's a good rule of thumb to give people the benefit of the doubt. Assume she just got distracted, not that she was trying to shit test you.

So in short, you are definitely reacting in the right direction - and you are right, what she did was rude, and it was good that your reaction to it was to like her less. That said, it wasn't something so outrageous that, in my opinion, it would be worth just writing her off.
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