Dealing with Social Friction, Part 2: Reevaluation w/ the 3 Rs
Mar 31, 2025
When you encounter heavy friction socially, don’t just keep plowing. Instead, stop and reevaluate with the 3 Rs so you’ll know just what to do next.
1
Mar 31, 2025
When you encounter heavy friction socially, don’t just keep plowing. Instead, stop and reevaluate with the 3 Rs so you’ll know just what to do next.
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.
Sometimes you go for sex, but a girl stops you because she feels slutty. There are 5 major ways to help her past this: adventure, sexual expertise, urgency, and more.
Girls won’t always agree to move with you, sit with you, or head somewhere else. If you’re not afraid of a little risk, though, you can often change their minds.
To save a failed open or a stalled date, use ‘over-the-top romanticness’. It’ll put a smile on her face and reset the tone of the courtship.
When does no mean no? As the lines of consent increasingly blur, today’s men find themselves caught in a sexual Catch-22.
Every last minute resistance destroying technique you can imagine… and it all stems from one place: passion + compassion.
Much of LMR (last minute resistance) is a woman’s auto-response to standard escalation. With pattern interrupts, you can circumvent this.
The false time constraint can get you conversations with girls who might otherwise be too distracted. But when’s the best time to use it?
Things don’t always work out on your first pass with a girl… but if you’re not using a good parting shot, you’re missing a lot of opportunities.
What do you do when women resist you? It can be tough to tell resistance from a rejection; here, we look at the differences, and what to do about each.
What do you do when women object? This article takes a look at all manner of objections you'll face - from feigned disinterest to last minute resistance.
It's often disconcerting when you ask a woman to do something or accompany you somewhere at get met with a quizzical, "Why?" Here's how to answer that, and get things rolling once more.
What's the usual end result of men who do not persist with women? Frustrated women, of course. Women often feign resistance to appear more desirable - and get upset when you don't insist a bit.
