The Three Brothers' Wives

The parable of three brothers who choose different wives to fit
different criteria (beauty, kindness), and lead different lives as a
result.

The parable of three brothers who choose different wives to fit
different criteria (beauty, kindness), and lead different lives as a
result.

Sure, you can give up, slink off, and go lick your wounds when a
woman resists you. Or… you can make her laugh at herself instead.
Resistance is one of the more troublesome things you'll run into with girls.
You approach her to say hello, she resists. You try to talk to her, she resists. You introduce yourself to her, she resists. You ask her to move with you, she resists.
There are various ways to counter resistance. Depending on when in the courtship you face it, the advice can be different. For instance, a girl who resists on the open is a lot less likely to have a guy hang around and try to break through that resistance than, say, a girl who resists once she's back alone with a guy and mostly naked. Most men will be more persistent the further along they are in the courtship.
But there is one magical way to tackle resistance that works no matter what stage of the courtship you're at.
It doesn't always work. It isn't 100% - nothing is. However, it's the best way I've discovered to shatter resistance. And best of all, it's fun.
This way is simple: you make her laugh at herself.
You point out how silly she is, resisting you like this. And then you make her have a little chuckle.
Because no matter how stony faced she was before... no matter how staunch the resistance she gave you was... as soon as she's giggling or snickering at her own silliness, much of the time, now you've got her.

If she has sex with you fast, does that mean she’s easy? Well… it
might. Yet you need a bigger sample size than one (i.e., just you and
her) to really know.
One of the more prevalent notions about women and time-to-bed (I’m just going to call it ‘TTB’ in this article) is that the faster a girl gets in bed with you, the sluttier she is.
This is not just an Internet meme. It existed long before the
Internet did. It probably
goes
back as far as humans have been a mostly-monogamous species and have
possessed language (that is to say, this meme’s at least a
million years old).
Like much wisdom that’s been with us for a long time, it’s rooted in truth. On average, easier women have shorter TTBs (times-to-bed). The harder a girl is to get, the longer her TTB is, on average.
BUT, there is a but. There’s a big but. A Kim Kardashian-with-gluteal-implants sized but.
To be more accurate, there are several big buts.
And if you don’t know what they are, there’s a not-insignificant chance you will ditch a low partner count girl who’s never moved as fast with a guy as she did with you and never will again... or wife up a high partner count girl (with similarly high predilections to stray) after mistaking her for a cagey, hard-to-get one because she knew how to play the game (or just wasn’t that into you).

Sometimes you don’t want to follow the instructions. The
instructions are for other folks, not you! But if you still aren’t
getting results, maybe it’s time to change things up.
Over the years, we’ve seen myriad guys come and go who struggle with a specific problem. These guys are among the most frustrated folks we see at Girls Chase. Not only are they frustrated themselves, but they frustrate everyone who tries to help them, too.
You see, what they want is a magic pill. They want you to tell them how to do everything you teach guys how to do – only they want you to teach them to do it faster and easier than how you teach all those other guys how to do it.
It doesn’t matter how fast the method you’re teaching is. It could take two weeks to work; they’d still want to know how to do it in four days. When you finally persuade them to put the work in, they take a couple of half-hearted shots at it, all their dreams don’t instantly come true, and they give up. It’s too hard, they’re too unmotivated they say. Then they want you to motivate them. Or, even better, give them some kind of shortcut you haven’t told them about before.
We’ve seen it a lot on the discussion boards. Some of the guys we banned in 2017 were long-time members who kept asking for magic pills, chafing at the suggestion when other members suggested they start with the basics, then whined about how hard it was and how unfair their situations were.
And I wondered to myself: “What the heck is these guys’ problems? Why can’t they just do the work and quit whining about it? Why do they ask for magic pills over and over and over again? They’ve GOT all my stuff – and all everybody else’s stuff – right here on the darn site!”
Sure, there’s a lot of material here, and it can be hard to know
where to start. That’s why we have the quiz and our programs, though. Both of
those are condensed information that takes you through a guided
process. There’s also the newbie assignment on the boards,
which only takes 14 days and a little courage to do.
We have paths for guys who are new and want to start getting results.
But some guys don’t take them – then not only don’t they follow the
paths we’ve laid out for them, but they continue to complain
about not getting results anyway. What’s
going on with people like this?
Well, as it turns out, a piece of scientific research fresh off the presses (published at the end of December) has figured out what’s going on with people who do this.

We review what changed and what content went up in 2017. And we
look forward to what you can expect from Girls Chase throughout the
next year.
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So that’s it. 2017’s a wrap! I hope it’s been an excellent year for you. It’s been another very solid year for Girls Chase. 2018 should be a fairly revolutionary one I think (with article tracks and with One Date – which we’re finally ready to launch – plus more awesome things we’ve got in the works for you)... but we’ll get to that in the second half of this post.
Before we do, we’ll review the year that’s just wrapped, and all the content posted therein.
As in past year-end reviews (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), we’ll discuss what’s changed this year at Girls Chase. We’ll talk overall posting statistics for you numbers guys. We’ll link you up to some of the best articles of this past year, as judged by comment counts, page views, and editorial opinion.
And then we’ll talk about what’s to come in the next year – our tenth year online.
Let’s plunge in.
You
talk to a girl on a street somewhere and you reach that ‘moment’. She
smiles, you smile. She looks at you with expectation.
Invite her to do something!
You’re with a girl in a bar and it reaches that lull where it hasn’t gone bad but has grown stale. And now the pressure on you to entertain or interest her begins to mount.
Don’t entertain her; invite her to do something!
You meet a group of cool people at a party and hit it off. There’s a cool guy and some real cute girls in the group. They like to talk to you and you like to talk to them, but it seems like nothing will happen with them.
Stop waiting for them to take charge. Invite them to do something yourself!
Invite her, invite her, invite them. Invite people. If you hit it off with a girl, make invites. If you click with cool people, make invites.
If you want a social or romantic future with any person you meet, make invites.

When you set out to form new habits and self-improve, a big part
of this is how to remember to make these adjustments in the first place.
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Reader Kalyan writes in with a question about learning fundamentals:
“hey, i just noticed that your website lacks a very important article (or maybe i dont know of it. if thats the case please send me link(s)). i know fundamentals are important. and everyone knows eye contact is important for example.. but i find it very hard to consistently remember to consciously focus on eye contact... i feel because of that, mastering individual fundamentals like that is much slower. so, an article about how to learn or focus on fundamentals would be helpful. i know its a good idea to work on one aspect at a time, but how could you actually remember to work on even one thing when youre out and talking to women?”
It’s an interesting question, and in fact is one more concerned with mindfulness – the act of attunement to what is occurring both around you and within your head in the present moment – than the pure raw process of learning fundamentals.
The process of learning fundamentals themselves is straightforward:
Pick a fundamental to work on, be that eye contact, posture, vocal intonation, or another
Decide what to alter or improve in this fundamental
Make that alteration/improvement over and over across the next 30-90 days
Every time you notice yourself not doing it the way you want to do it, correct yourself
After 1-3 months (and many hundreds of internal reminders) have passed, it’s now automatic
This process can transform you into a man with impeccable, powerful body language, mannerisms, and behavior in a relatively short time (six months to a year for really complete change; though you’ll start to see the effects of this exercise as soon as you begin work on it).
Yet you must remember to remind yourself to adopt these better fundamentals to change them.
What if you can simply never remember to do it?

Women have a lot of very high standards. They just don’t always
stick to those standards, is all. In fact, they usually abandon a lot
of them.
I had a funny insight recently. Well, more a new way to look at
something I already was aware of, but the new way of looking at it
instantly made me go, “Ah, that’s how it is, yes.”
I started writing an article about girlfriend retention earlier. I
got about a third of the way into it, got pulled away from it, and
don’t really feel like going back to it right now. Then I started
writing one on hooking up with girls who are horny when you’re not the
most attractive guy in the room, but went on a big tangent and kind of
lost my train of thought so shelved that one for now too (lost trains
of thought happen
sometimes when you write).
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Anyway, in the ‘keeping a girlfriend’ one, I embedded a YouTube video of a hit 1970s soul song where the female singer talks about trying to hang onto a broke male partner she feeds and clothes and houses and whom she discovers is having an affair. It’s a great song (the single sold a million copies in its first eight weeks), and people love it... but the YouTube comment section is filled with women proclaiming how they would never tolerate a man straying on them and how the singer needs to find herself a new man.
And I thought “It is so funny how women do that.” Because I have had numerous girlfriends – beautiful, intelligent, charismatic girlfriends, with no shortage of male suitors and no lack of self awareness – declare to me they would never tolerate a man seeing other women while with them, even as they knew I saw other women while with them. I have watched these same women tell other women no woman should tolerate this and that any woman with such a man ought to leave him. Then come right back to me after these little rants to others, happy as pups.
It’s not just about fidelity. Women do it with many things. There was a poll I came across where someone asked Japanese women what they’d like to change about their man. 40% of women said a bit more muscle, 25% of women said more wealth, and another 25% said they wanted more personality. One male commenter on the poll results remarked “So just get muscular, be rich, and have a great personality. Easy!” (that’s sarcasm, in case you didn’t catch it). Another commenter remarked that the problem women face is all the ripped, rich guys with great personalities are gay.
And it’s true (the standards disconnect, not the gay thing. Although that is kind of true too)! If you ask most men what they want in a girlfriend, you’ll get a couple of items. Cute, nice, submissive, can cook and clean. That’s about what most guys want. Maybe one or two other things, like likes to dress sexy or is into this or that leisure activity. Many women have full-on wish lists of 30 to 70 qualities they want a man to have. Yet, again – reality doesn’t match women’s words. Look at the guys these girls with huge long lists of things they want date, and you discover their actual real world partners don’t have most of what these women say they want.
So why do women say they want all these things, and then turn around and date men who don’t have any of them? And then they keep saying they want those things anyway, in spite of their dating histories to the contrary?
Are women just nuts?

When girls tease, go off topic, get distracted, or turn mean, a
takeaway may be in order. But the key to these is calibration: not too
much, not too little.
We’ve talked a lot about takeaways lately on Girls Chase. Alek has
posted a few recent articles on “hit and run” in bars and nightclubs
(where you talk to a girl for a bit, leave, and come back later). And
in Monday’s article on handling disrespect,
Hector made ample use of the full suite of available takeaways.
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A takeaway is any behavior
you use to remove your attention, interest, or even outright presence
away from a woman. It can be an effective way to snap women to
attention, to increase your scarcity (and thus, the urgency
of hooking up with you), and to differentiate yourself from other men
(many of whom cling onto any woman who talks to them like burs as soon
as she gives them her attention, and would never leave or withdraw attention
until they’d totally given up). Takeaways also let you fractionate your courtships, and
are a powerful way to inspire women to chase you and do more of the
work in the courtship.
You’ve felt the power of takeaways plenty of times before yourself. A girl you talk with shrugs her eyebrows and seems disinterested. A girl you are with suddenly shifts from warm and open with you to frowning and telling you she doesn’t think you and her are very much alike. Another girl you were flirting with suddenly tells you “I have to run – I’ll catch you later!” and darts off. All these are takeaways... though some of them (like when she seems disinterested) are lighter and more implied, while others (like when she darts off) are stronger and more demonstrative.
We’ll look at the different types of takeaways you can use in this article. Then we’ll talk about some times to use them, as well as some times not to use them.
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When you first go somewhere new, it can seem like the best meet market you’ve found. Cute girls everywhere. But is this effect real or illusion?
Remember when you first moved to town? Beautiful girls everywhere. Your new location was a visual feast: women with great bodies in sexy clothes. Gorgeous faces and stunning hair. So much choice with women you didn’t know which girl to pick.
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Or remember when you found that venue you’ve been to so many times now? That bar or nightclub you’ve been to 20 times. That shopping street or mall you visit every weekend. Remember how it was when you first went – how much your head spun as girl after hot girl walked by?
Compare that to today. There aren’t nearly as many beautiful girls. The women in your town seem to have grown older, heavier, and less cute. Those venues you frequent have dropped off in quality and beautiful girls are no longer in the abundance they once were.
Then, one day, you visit somewhere new.
It might be a new city, town, or suburb. It might be a new venue in your own area you haven’t visited before.
And when you get there, you’re amazed. There are beautiful girls everywhere! Your head spins as girl after hot girl walks by.
You’ve found a new favorite place – your new girl mecca.
But have you really? Or are you merely subject to the ‘new spot bonus’?