The Passive Dating Strategy Sucks: Waiting for women to approach you/make moves on you

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I've been using this dating strategy for years, mostly because I cannot approach women for the life of me, and if I did, I would look so scared that she would reject me for looking like a scaredy-cat bitch, rendering approaching useless.

I also don't think I have the SMV to do approaching either. I could be underestimating myself, or I could be right about that. The latter aligns with my intuition much more.

Anyways, back to the point. I've been using the passive dating strategy for a long time. This consists of never approaching women and letting them make moves on you (ex. outright approaching you, having them break the ice between you two in class if you two are sitting together while she shows IOIs, her moving next to you, or anything that requires the female to initiate first).

This strategy has only given me the following types of women
  • Unattractive women, or women below my SMV (LTBs and below).
  • Women in their forties, thirties or late 20s (I'm 20).
  • Women who are desperate (this has overlap with point 1)
  • Women who are more masculine (ex. has traits like taking initiative)
There's only been 1 high MTB that I had through this strategy, and she was in her mid-late 20s, but I couldn't trust her since she lived in San Francisco by herself from 2019-2023, so she's a leftist and probably taken a decent amount of penis. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably taken her by now.

Every woman I have encountered with this strategy has given me both strong IOIs + taken initiative.

The thing is, there is a strong feeling that I have that there are women who would really appreciate it if I approached them, but since they don't give strong IOIs, I dismiss them. This is because I am scared of rejection (or to be more precise, the humiliation and shame that comes out of it). I can not interact or approach a woman unless I have absolute or near-absolute certainty that she likes me, and sometimes even then I still can not do it.

For example, there is a woman who sits in front of me I think is kind of attractive at school. She twirls her hair in front of me (probably not connected to me) and one time, she was exiting the door I was entering and upon seeing me (she noticed me faster than I noticed her), she smiled at me and opened the door for me. There's a feeling that arises within me that tells me she may have something for me (because that reaction to my presence is something that is not usual), but since that doesn't reach the threshold of absolute certainty or near-absolute certainty, I dismiss this as a coincidence, or she was just being friendly, or devoid of any significant meaning.

I feel like this with some women I see around school, she may like me but due to her not taking initiative or being overt with her IOIs (or not showing any at all), these women never reach the threshold of "I'm sure she likes me", therefore I dismiss any intuitions as coincidences, flukes, friendliness, or devoid of any significant meaning. The most important thing here is that MOST women are like this (as in they won't take initiative on a man they like, or give strong IOIs)

This also happened in a summer class I had. This one girl I really liked seemed like she liked me back, but since she never took initiative or gave me strong IOIs, I dismissed my feeling as flukes, coincidences, etc.

So yeah, I don't know how much I'm leaving on the table with this strategy but the only women who you will get with this strategy seems to be women who are incentivized to take initiative due to being compromised in dating.

Women expect men to approach, but since I can't approach. I am basically only getting approached by women with lower SMV than me. That's the usual outcome of using this strategy. Don't use this strategy.

TLDR:
The author explains that he has relied on a passive dating strategy for years because he is terrified of initiating contact with women. His fear of approaching stems from two major issues: first, he believes that if he ever attempted to approach a woman, his visible anxiety would make him appear weak or overly scared, leading to immediate rejection; second, he doubts that his own sexual market value (SMV) is high enough to justify taking such a risk, even though he sometimes wonders if he might be underestimating himself.


Instead of initiating, he lets women make the first move—expecting them to approach him, break the ice in situations like sitting together in class, or otherwise display clear interest through their body language or actions. However, this strategy has consistently delivered a narrow range of outcomes:


  • Unattractive or lower-SMV women: He finds that the women who take the initiative tend to be those he considers less attractive or below his own SMV.
  • Older women: Most of the women who have approached him are in their late twenties, thirties, or even forties, which is not ideal given that he is only 20.
  • Desperate individuals: He notes that many of these women appear desperate, a trait that overlaps with the first category of lower SMV.
  • Women with masculine traits: He observes that the few who do approach often display assertive, masculine characteristics by taking the lead.

The core of his issue is that his fear of rejection forces him to demand near-absolute certainty of a woman's interest before he can consider approaching (if he can even muster the courage). For example, he describes a situation in which a woman he considered attractive in his class twirled her hair, smiled at him, and even opened the door for him. Despite these actions, he dismissed them as coincidences or mere friendliness because they did not meet his strict threshold for certainty (that being indicators that strongly/undeniably indicate interest). He notes that this pattern has repeated itself with other women—where potential indicators of interest are quickly rationalized away due to his inability to conceive of a woman being attracted to him unless it's undeniable, therefore dismissing potential indicators of interest as flukes, friendliness, etc. The author is concerned that he is leaving potential women on the table with this strategy.

Ultimately, he concludes that by waiting for overt and strong signals of interest, his passive strategy only attracts women who are either compromised in their dating options or inherently less desirable in his view. He is only approached by women who, by his criteria, do not measure up. His final takeaway is a clear warning—this strategy is fundamentally flawed and should be avoided.
 
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Damn i didn’t know you were back
 
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Many people have that level of attention span on this forum.
Not to say that they have to read my thread in full, but it's worth mentioning.
 
Kind of water thread but I’m glad you’re posting again.

Also, you of all people should know that the only way to solve this issue is to start approaching, no matter how awfully the first approach, third approach, or tenth approach may go. Apply your logic to your own situation bro.
 
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Being passive isn't even a bad strategy

It's an anti strategy



But I get that most people here (like myself) are down on NT and looks alike.

The best strat (admittedly not a good one) is to just get somewhat wealth and excel in some field and then take advantage on the 18 year old interns in our late 40s. Something along those lines.

Because I don't see anything else working.
 
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Kind of water thread but I’m glad you’re posting again.

Also, you of all people should know that the only way to solve this issue is to start approaching, no matter how awfully the first approach, third approach, or tenth approach may go. Apply your logic to your own situation bro.
I know that, but I just wanted to share the knowledge with others so they don't do it.
 
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But I get that most people here (like myself) are down on NT and looks alike.
Try to LTR a virgin ND girl if you can. Autistic girls are so underrated on this forum it’s insane.
 
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Many people have that level of attention span on this forum.
Not to say that they have to read my thread in full, but it's worth mentioning.
Unfortunate to say the least,
I just thought it was funny however.
 
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Same tbh. Although I am working on it and it gets better

Generally NT is achievable, you need to change your behavioural patterns. By increasing neuroplasticity and getting more positive social interactions you can basically redo the damage done to you as a kid
 
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Try to LTR a virgin ND girl if you can. Autistic girls are so underrated on this forum it’s insane.
I have the number of one maybe, she's not that NT, but maybe because she's shy.
Too bad she's a low-mid LTB.
 
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Same tbh. Although I am working on it and it gets better

Generally NT is achievable, you need to change your behavioural patterns. By increasing neuroplasticity and getting more positive social interactions you can basically redo the damage done to you as a kid
Positive social interactions are very important.

I have a hard time imagining an approach going genuinely well, that is, she likes me and wanted to be approached by me.

I don't want to get the disease treatment, or the cold attitude, or the fake friendliness, or a woman accepting me because she's using me has her "safe guy" or the guy she pities and therefore accepts my advances to date her.
 
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I did think of that when I copied and pasted it, but I wanted to preserve the information.
 
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Positive social interactions are very important.

I have a hard time imagining an approach going genuinely well, that is, she likes me and wanted to be approached by me.

I don't want to get the disease treatment, or the cold attitude, or the fake friendliness, or a woman accepting me because she's using me has her "safe guy" or the guy she pities and therefore accepts my advances to date her.
Agree on the safe guy shit. Nobody wants that

I kinda go with red flag interesting narcy character, experimenting with different ways of behaving

May not be the highest appeal character, but it’s never gonna be the safe guy + it’s the most enjoyable one for me
 
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Legit thread. This weekend I’ve got to go approaching the single mothers at the club.
 
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Agree on the safe guy shit. Nobody wants that

I kinda go with red flag interesting narcy character, experimenting with different ways of behaving

May not be the highest appeal character, but it’s never gonna be the safe guy + it’s the most enjoyable one for me
Understood. The only good thing with the passive dating strategy is that you can't fail.
 
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Legit thread. This weekend I’ve got to go approaching the single mothers at the club.
Single mothers could have been another demographic that could have tried approaching me if I didn't look so young.
 
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I've been using this dating strategy for years, mostly because I cannot approach women for the life of me, and if I did, I would look so scared that she would reject me for looking like a scaredy-cat bitch, rendering approaching useless.

I also don't think I have the SMV to do approaching either. I could be underestimating myself, or I could be right about that. The latter aligns with my intuition much more.

Anyways, back to the point. I've been using the passive dating strategy for a long time. This consists of never approaching women and letting them make moves on you (ex. outright approaching you, having them break the ice between you two in class if you two are sitting together while she shows IOIs, her moving next to you, or anything that requires the female to initiate first).

This strategy has only given me the following types of women
  • Unattractive women, or women below my SMV (LTBs and below).
  • Women in their forties, thirties or late 20s (I'm 20).
  • Women who are desperate (this has overlap with point 1)
  • Women who are more masculine (ex. has traits like taking initiative)
There's only been 1 high MTB that I had through this strategy, and she was in her mid-late 20s, but I couldn't trust her since she lived in San Francisco by herself from 2019-2023, so she's a leftist and probably taken a decent amount of penis. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably taken her by now.

Every woman I have encountered with this strategy has given me both strong IOIs + taken initiative.

The thing is, there is a strong feeling that I have that there are women who would really appreciate it if I approached them, but since they don't give strong IOIs, I dismiss them. This is because I am scared of rejection (or to be more precise, the humiliation and shame that comes out of it). I can not interact or approach a woman unless I have absolute or near-absolute certainty that she likes me, and sometimes even then I still can not do it.

For example, there is a woman who sits in front of me I think is kind of attractive at school. She twirls her hair in front of me (probably not connected to me) and one time, she was exiting the door I was entering and upon seeing me (she noticed me faster than I noticed her), she smiled at me and opened the door for me. There's a feeling that arises within me that tells me she may have something for me (because that reaction to my presence is something that is not usual), but since that doesn't reach the threshold of absolute certainty or near-absolute certainty, I dismiss this as a coincidence, or she was just being friendly, or devoid of any significant meaning.

I feel like this with some women I see around school, she may like me but due to her not taking initiative or being overt with her IOIs (or not showing any at all), these women never reach the threshold of "I'm sure she likes me", therefore I dismiss any intuitions as coincidences, flukes, friendliness, or devoid of any significant meaning. The most important thing here is that MOST women are like this (as in they won't take initiative on a man they like, or give strong IOIs)

This also happened in a summer class I had. This one girl I really liked seemed like she liked me back, but since she never took initiative or gave me strong IOIs, I dismissed my feeling as flukes, coincidences, etc.

So yeah, I don't know how much I'm leaving on the table with this strategy but the only women who you will get with this strategy seems to be women who are incentivized to take initiative due to being compromised in dating.

Women expect men to approach, but since I can't approach. I am basically only getting approached by women with lower SMV than me. That's the usual outcome of using this strategy. Don't use this strategy.

TLDR:
The author explains that he has relied on a passive dating strategy for years because he is terrified of initiating contact with women. His fear of approaching stems from two major issues: first, he believes that if he ever attempted to approach a woman, his visible anxiety would make him appear weak or overly scared, leading to immediate rejection; second, he doubts that his own sexual market value (SMV) is high enough to justify taking such a risk, even though he sometimes wonders if he might be underestimating himself.


Instead of initiating, he lets women make the first move—expecting them to approach him, break the ice in situations like sitting together in class, or otherwise display clear interest through their body language or actions. However, this strategy has consistently delivered a narrow range of outcomes:


  • Unattractive or lower-SMV women: He finds that the women who take the initiative tend to be those he considers less attractive or below his own SMV.
  • Older women: Most of the women who have approached him are in their late twenties, thirties, or even forties, which is not ideal given that he is only 20.
  • Desperate individuals: He notes that many of these women appear desperate, a trait that overlaps with the first category of lower SMV.
  • Women with masculine traits: He observes that the few who do approach often display assertive, masculine characteristics by taking the lead.

The core of his issue is that his fear of rejection forces him to demand near-absolute certainty of a woman's interest before he can consider approaching (if he can even muster the courage). For example, he describes a situation in which a woman he considered attractive in his class twirled her hair, smiled at him, and even opened the door for him. Despite these actions, he dismissed them as coincidences or mere friendliness because they did not meet his strict threshold for certainty (that being indicators that strongly/undeniably indicate interest). He notes that this pattern has repeated itself with other women—where potential indicators of interest are quickly rationalized away due to his inability to conceive of a woman being attracted to him unless it's undeniable, therefore dismissing potential indicators of interest as flukes, friendliness, etc. The author is concerned that he is leaving potential women on the table with this strategy.

Ultimately, he concludes that by waiting for overt and strong signals of interest, his passive strategy only attracts women who are either compromised in their dating options or inherently less desirable in his view. He is only approached by women who, by his criteria, do not measure up. His final takeaway is a clear warning—this strategy is fundamentally flawed and should be avoided.
You need to low inhib maxx. Just start and life gets better
 
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Are you speaking from experience?
Yeah I’ve been an autistic introvert my whole life still pretty much am but I’ve forced myself to do things before that kinda stretched the elasticity of my high inhib brain.

I had no friends in school. I didn’t wanna sit alone at lunch so I would walk around the school and eat my food in the bathroom stalls lol. I found talking to people super awkward and felt like they didn’t want me to be there

When I joined .org i started doing small things like making eye contact with people (normally I would look at the ground) then I transition to saying hello and smiling etc

Also I went to out to cold approach with a friend once, yes it was a loser activity but we were trying to challenge ourself

that helped me gain lots of confidence


More tips

Be completely transparent about exactly what you are thinking and talk without thinking. There are 8 billion people in the world you’re not gonna fuck up with all of them

Go on regular dates. When I’m on a date I try to be as straight forward as possible like I’ll just grab her neck randomly. A good stat is to tell her to get you water when you come over

All these lower inhib

If you want an easy way just take pregab and baclofen
 
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What about starting approaching first? For an experiment
 
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Good read, being assertive is important if you want higher quality women. We have to make start approaching women. Highly attractive girls expect the guy to take the initiative.
 
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if she doesnt make a move on you then she doesnt like you, its that simple
 
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Good read, being assertive is important if you want higher quality women. We have to make start approaching women. Highly attractive girls expect the guy to take the initiative.
I learned that the hard way.
 
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just ldar dating strategy
 
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if she doesnt make a move on you then she doesnt like you, its that simple
Not from my experience. Most women are way too scared to try that + they expect men to do it.
Of course, if she likes you, there's definitely a chance she can take initiative, especially if the cost of initiation is low (ex. you two are sitting next to each other in class). Actually, that is the manner in which most women take initiative. Most women can't do raw cold approaches.

Most women just give non-obvious IOIs and/or make themselves receptive to approach, or they give up and stop giving IOIs if they think you're out of their league and they need to control themselves/believe you'll never initiate.

The best way to figure out if she likes you are just knowing female IOIs + assessing if she's treating you better than she treats an average person.

Most just can't approach a man, unless they're really interested and/or desperate.
Many of the girls that took initiative on me had the mark of desperation on them (either towards me or wanting a partner in general, or both)
 
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I've been using this dating strategy for years, mostly because I cannot approach women for the life of me, and if I did, I would look so scared that she would reject me for looking like a scaredy-cat bitch, rendering approaching useless.

I also don't think I have the SMV to do approaching either. I could be underestimating myself, or I could be right about that. The latter aligns with my intuition much more.

Anyways, back to the point. I've been using the passive dating strategy for a long time. This consists of never approaching women and letting them make moves on you (ex. outright approaching you, having them break the ice between you two in class if you two are sitting together while she shows IOIs, her moving next to you, or anything that requires the female to initiate first).

This strategy has only given me the following types of women
  • Unattractive women, or women below my SMV (LTBs and below).
  • Women in their forties, thirties or late 20s (I'm 20).
  • Women who are desperate (this has overlap with point 1)
  • Women who are more masculine (ex. has traits like taking initiative)
There's only been 1 high MTB that I had through this strategy, and she was in her mid-late 20s, but I couldn't trust her since she lived in San Francisco by herself from 2019-2023, so she's a leftist and probably taken a decent amount of penis. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably taken her by now.

Every woman I have encountered with this strategy has given me both strong IOIs + taken initiative.

The thing is, there is a strong feeling that I have that there are women who would really appreciate it if I approached them, but since they don't give strong IOIs, I dismiss them. This is because I am scared of rejection (or to be more precise, the humiliation and shame that comes out of it). I can not interact or approach a woman unless I have absolute or near-absolute certainty that she likes me, and sometimes even then I still can not do it.

For example, there is a woman who sits in front of me I think is kind of attractive at school. She twirls her hair in front of me (probably not connected to me) and one time, she was exiting the door I was entering and upon seeing me (she noticed me faster than I noticed her), she smiled at me and opened the door for me. There's a feeling that arises within me that tells me she may have something for me (because that reaction to my presence is something that is not usual), but since that doesn't reach the threshold of absolute certainty or near-absolute certainty, I dismiss this as a coincidence, or she was just being friendly, or devoid of any significant meaning.

I feel like this with some women I see around school, she may like me but due to her not taking initiative or being overt with her IOIs (or not showing any at all), these women never reach the threshold of "I'm sure she likes me", therefore I dismiss any intuitions as coincidences, flukes, friendliness, or devoid of any significant meaning. The most important thing here is that MOST women are like this (as in they won't take initiative on a man they like, or give strong IOIs)

This also happened in a summer class I had. This one girl I really liked seemed like she liked me back, but since she never took initiative or gave me strong IOIs, I dismissed my feeling as flukes, coincidences, etc.

So yeah, I don't know how much I'm leaving on the table with this strategy but the only women who you will get with this strategy seems to be women who are incentivized to take initiative due to being compromised in dating.

Women expect men to approach, but since I can't approach. I am basically only getting approached by women with lower SMV than me. That's the usual outcome of using this strategy. Don't use this strategy.

TLDR:
The author explains that he has relied on a passive dating strategy for years because he is terrified of initiating contact with women. His fear of approaching stems from two major issues: first, he believes that if he ever attempted to approach a woman, his visible anxiety would make him appear weak or overly scared, leading to immediate rejection; second, he doubts that his own sexual market value (SMV) is high enough to justify taking such a risk, even though he sometimes wonders if he might be underestimating himself.


Instead of initiating, he lets women make the first move—expecting them to approach him, break the ice in situations like sitting together in class, or otherwise display clear interest through their body language or actions. However, this strategy has consistently delivered a narrow range of outcomes:


  • Unattractive or lower-SMV women: He finds that the women who take the initiative tend to be those he considers less attractive or below his own SMV.
  • Older women: Most of the women who have approached him are in their late twenties, thirties, or even forties, which is not ideal given that he is only 20.
  • Desperate individuals: He notes that many of these women appear desperate, a trait that overlaps with the first category of lower SMV.
  • Women with masculine traits: He observes that the few who do approach often display assertive, masculine characteristics by taking the lead.

The core of his issue is that his fear of rejection forces him to demand near-absolute certainty of a woman's interest before he can consider approaching (if he can even muster the courage). For example, he describes a situation in which a woman he considered attractive in his class twirled her hair, smiled at him, and even opened the door for him. Despite these actions, he dismissed them as coincidences or mere friendliness because they did not meet his strict threshold for certainty (that being indicators that strongly/undeniably indicate interest). He notes that this pattern has repeated itself with other women—where potential indicators of interest are quickly rationalized away due to his inability to conceive of a woman being attracted to him unless it's undeniable, therefore dismissing potential indicators of interest as flukes, friendliness, etc. The author is concerned that he is leaving potential women on the table with this strategy.

Ultimately, he concludes that by waiting for overt and strong signals of interest, his passive strategy only attracts women who are either compromised in their dating options or inherently less desirable in his view. He is only approached by women who, by his criteria, do not measure up. His final takeaway is a clear warning—this strategy is fundamentally flawed and should be avoided.
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Yeah I’ve been an autistic introvert my whole life still pretty much am but I’ve forced myself to do things before that kinda stretched the elasticity of my high inhib brain.

I had no friends in school. I didn’t wanna sit alone at lunch so I would walk around the school and eat my food in the bathroom stalls lol. I found talking to people super awkward and felt like they didn’t want me to be there

When I joined .org i started doing small things like making eye contact with people (normally I would look at the ground) then I transition to saying hello and smiling etc

Also I went to out to cold approach with a friend once, yes it was a loser activity but we were trying to challenge ourself

that helped me gain lots of confidence


More tips

Be completely transparent about exactly what you are thinking and talk without thinking. There are 8 billion people in the world you’re not gonna fuck up with all of them

Go on regular dates. When I’m on a date I try to be as straight forward as possible like I’ll just grab her neck randomly. A good stat is to tell her to get you water when you come over

All these lower inhib

If you want an easy way just take pregab and baclofen
What do you notice between the women you would get from the passive vs the active dating strategy in relation to how they behave and perceive you? Do the women you get using the active strategy more susceptible to not being genuinely attracted to you?
 
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Need ur high Iq threads.
Could only possibly work if people here weren't failed last men (read Nietszche for that) in a cesspool of degeneracy and improper self-conduct. But I can't do that since they'd degenerate me, so I'm going to leave soon.
 
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I've been using this dating strategy for years, mostly because I cannot approach women for the life of me, and if I did, I would look so scared that she would reject me for looking like a scaredy-cat bitch, rendering approaching useless.

I also don't think I have the SMV to do approaching either. I could be underestimating myself, or I could be right about that. The latter aligns with my intuition much more.

Anyways, back to the point. I've been using the passive dating strategy for a long time. This consists of never approaching women and letting them make moves on you (ex. outright approaching you, having them break the ice between you two in class if you two are sitting together while she shows IOIs, her moving next to you, or anything that requires the female to initiate first).

This strategy has only given me the following types of women
  • Unattractive women, or women below my SMV (LTBs and below).
  • Women in their forties, thirties or late 20s (I'm 20).
  • Women who are desperate (this has overlap with point 1)
  • Women who are more masculine (ex. has traits like taking initiative)
There's only been 1 high MTB that I had through this strategy, and she was in her mid-late 20s, but I couldn't trust her since she lived in San Francisco by herself from 2019-2023, so she's a leftist and probably taken a decent amount of penis. If it wasn't for that, I would have probably taken her by now.

Every woman I have encountered with this strategy has given me both strong IOIs + taken initiative.

The thing is, there is a strong feeling that I have that there are women who would really appreciate it if I approached them, but since they don't give strong IOIs, I dismiss them. This is because I am scared of rejection (or to be more precise, the humiliation and shame that comes out of it). I can not interact or approach a woman unless I have absolute or near-absolute certainty that she likes me, and sometimes even then I still can not do it.

For example, there is a woman who sits in front of me I think is kind of attractive at school. She twirls her hair in front of me (probably not connected to me) and one time, she was exiting the door I was entering and upon seeing me (she noticed me faster than I noticed her), she smiled at me and opened the door for me. There's a feeling that arises within me that tells me she may have something for me (because that reaction to my presence is something that is not usual), but since that doesn't reach the threshold of absolute certainty or near-absolute certainty, I dismiss this as a coincidence, or she was just being friendly, or devoid of any significant meaning.

I feel like this with some women I see around school, she may like me but due to her not taking initiative or being overt with her IOIs (or not showing any at all), these women never reach the threshold of "I'm sure she likes me", therefore I dismiss any intuitions as coincidences, flukes, friendliness, or devoid of any significant meaning. The most important thing here is that MOST women are like this (as in they won't take initiative on a man they like, or give strong IOIs)

This also happened in a summer class I had. This one girl I really liked seemed like she liked me back, but since she never took initiative or gave me strong IOIs, I dismissed my feeling as flukes, coincidences, etc.

So yeah, I don't know how much I'm leaving on the table with this strategy but the only women who you will get with this strategy seems to be women who are incentivized to take initiative due to being compromised in dating.

Women expect men to approach, but since I can't approach. I am basically only getting approached by women with lower SMV than me. That's the usual outcome of using this strategy. Don't use this strategy.

TLDR:
The author explains that he has relied on a passive dating strategy for years because he is terrified of initiating contact with women. His fear of approaching stems from two major issues: first, he believes that if he ever attempted to approach a woman, his visible anxiety would make him appear weak or overly scared, leading to immediate rejection; second, he doubts that his own sexual market value (SMV) is high enough to justify taking such a risk, even though he sometimes wonders if he might be underestimating himself.


Instead of initiating, he lets women make the first move—expecting them to approach him, break the ice in situations like sitting together in class, or otherwise display clear interest through their body language or actions. However, this strategy has consistently delivered a narrow range of outcomes:


  • Unattractive or lower-SMV women: He finds that the women who take the initiative tend to be those he considers less attractive or below his own SMV.
  • Older women: Most of the women who have approached him are in their late twenties, thirties, or even forties, which is not ideal given that he is only 20.
  • Desperate individuals: He notes that many of these women appear desperate, a trait that overlaps with the first category of lower SMV.
  • Women with masculine traits: He observes that the few who do approach often display assertive, masculine characteristics by taking the lead.

The core of his issue is that his fear of rejection forces him to demand near-absolute certainty of a woman's interest before he can consider approaching (if he can even muster the courage). For example, he describes a situation in which a woman he considered attractive in his class twirled her hair, smiled at him, and even opened the door for him. Despite these actions, he dismissed them as coincidences or mere friendliness because they did not meet his strict threshold for certainty (that being indicators that strongly/undeniably indicate interest). He notes that this pattern has repeated itself with other women—where potential indicators of interest are quickly rationalized away due to his inability to conceive of a woman being attracted to him unless it's undeniable, therefore dismissing potential indicators of interest as flukes, friendliness, etc. The author is concerned that he is leaving potential women on the table with this strategy.

Ultimately, he concludes that by waiting for overt and strong signals of interest, his passive strategy only attracts women who are either compromised in their dating options or inherently less desirable in his view. He is only approached by women who, by his criteria, do not measure up. His final takeaway is a clear warning—this strategy is fundamentally flawed and should be avoided.
I'll just keep looksmaxing and I'll be able to get MTBs eventually.
 
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Summary: Only a good strategy if you're fine not dating your looksmatch, but a woman who is less attractive than you. If you're not decently attractive, you will likely get LTBs and lower.
 
The best way to figure out if she likes you are just knowing female IOIs +
could you explain what these iois are? I noticed when I go outside attractive girls will sometimes make and hold eye contact with me and I don’t know what to do with that. Very rarely when I’m in a supermarket sometimes they'll stand quite close to me and look at an item.
 
Most of dating success is just right place at the right time
 
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Most of dating success is just right place at the right time
Definitely, from my experience. Most of my interactions with girls that like me were just that we were near each other, and she happened to like me and one of us broke the ice.
 
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could you explain what these iois are? I noticed when I go outside attractive girls will sometimes make and hold eye contact with me and I don’t know what to do with that. Very rarely when I’m in a supermarket sometimes they'll stand quite close to me and look at an item.
There are thousands of them. I'll list as many as possible (generally speaking, if the IOI is not obvious, use a sum of IOIs to assess whether she likes you or not
  • Her laughing at what you say despite it not being funny (aka her threshold for finding things you say as funny is lower than normal)
  • Staring
  • Not knowing how to behave around you/can't act normal around you
  • Unnecessary, out of place friendliness or smiling (ex. excessive smiling + shyness upon seeing you)
  • Trying to close space between you too next to you (her deliberately sitting next to you. stand near you despite there being no need to)
  • Trying to engage in conversation with you/sustain conversation with you despite it not being necessary
  • Being excessively helpful despite it not being necessary
  • Her treating you better than other individuals (ex. her offering you cookies)
  • Change in dressing patterns, fragrances, or makeup style to make herself look better
  • Seeing signs of excitement in her body language in your presence.
  • Seeing signs of despair within her in the absence of your presence.
  • Seeing her fix herself much more frequently in your presence (ex. fixing her hair, cleaning lint on her sweater)
  • Seeing her give you her full attention or most of it when talking to you.
  • Seeing her smile more often in your presence
  • Seeing her genuinely enjoy being in your presence.
  • Short response times in messages
  • "Heyyy" or "Heyyyy", lots of ys
  • Expressive texting style.
  • Trying to invite you over to her place and reading the context of the place, she's intending for something chatty, romantic, sexual, or something that indicates interest (ex. She says she wants you to come study at her place, yet she "forgot" her textbook in class, or the environment doesn't indicate that she had the intention to study and instead, there's food on the table and she tries to chat the whole time.
  • Lots of smiling at you, leaning forward
  • Dresses in a more revealing manner to try to get your attention (to get you to talk to her)
  • Buys things for you, invests her money to satisfy you
  • Tries to get you to meet their parents/fine with you meeting their parents.
  • Talks about you with her friends and the people she talks to.
  • Tries to talk to you and tries to befriend you.
  • Cold approach
  • Asking for your number
  • Asking for your social media
  • Sending you photos of her (ex. how do I look?)
  • Sending you photos of her that she wouldn't just share with random men (unless she's a whore)
  • Telling you she likes you
  • A friend tells you she likes you
  • Behaves like you're a status symbol/boosts her status/tries to show you off (ex. "I was with him the other day", emphasizing the "I was with him part" in her speech or in general
  • She becomes territorial of you around other women
  • She acts like you two are dating already.
  • She follows your orders with low effort/[persuasive capacity (ex. "Wear a pink skirt tomorrow", "You shouldn't wear ripped jeans")
  • Easily persuaded by you
  • Feels an intense amount of shame/guilt when she disappoints you.
  • Treats you like a god/someone with higher overall social status
  • Touchy
  • Changes her schedule, lifestyle, behavior, appearance to appease you, or any act to try to appease you in general.
  • Higher pitched voice than usual.
  • Compliments you all the time for no reason, especially on your appearance, especially on your face/body
  • Arranges dates with you.
  • Tells you you should be her husband/fiancee/boyfriend
  • Sends romantic, sexual or sexual-romantic media to you from social media (ex. send this to your crush, couple goals, something with sexual undercurrents)
  • Mothering you
  • ...or any other behavior that has common underying motivations
 
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Literally the same shit, and tbh I still will not approach just an ego thing, better off getting rich and letting them beg
 
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and one time, she was exiting the door I was entering and upon seeing me (she noticed me faster than I noticed her), she smiled at me and opened the door for me. There's a feeling that arises within me that tells me she may have something for me (because that reaction to my presence is something that is not usual), but since that doesn't reach the threshold of absolute certainty or near-absolute certainty, I dismiss this as a coincidence, or she was just being friendly, or devoid of any significant meaning.
BROOOOOO SAME HOLY FCK, i feel like I fcked up a htb js cuz i was a pssy and i didnt say sh back, my dumbass didnt even say yw.
 
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