Why does playing the long game get such a bad connotation?

Anonymous
What I’ve learned is that the way we try to date each other is different every single time, what worked dating one woman won’t necessarily work with the next. This woman I saw two years ago, it took us almost six months to have our first date and had several more after, we’re seeing each other for a year and a half before we broke things off. This woman I was seeing last summer, it moved fast, she basically was sexting me and begging me to come over in 2 weeks, we only saw each other for a month and a half before we went different ways.

Currently, I met a woman through some friends. Do her and I talk daily, no. Currently, the only way we communicate is through Instagram, where she sought me out. She came back from vacation two weekends ago. Since she’s been back, she’s reacted to a couple of my stories to spark some conversation, she’s constantly liking my comments when messaging her. We talked about doing a group happy hour this past Friday and we couldn’t make it happen. She also was very interested in watching a hockey that evening too. I suggested we go somewhere to watch the game and grab a beer. She saw my message and decided to video call me through IG and we chatted for 40 min that way. I brought up the game again, she was in her car to the gym and said that if we were going in a group, she would have been ok being grungy and coming out, but if we were going to get together, she would have liked to better prepare, have a change of cloths or something, clean up before she would have gone out (game would have started in a hour after her workout). But I was surprised she video called me, I feel like that’s a personal thing to do, and we ended up talking about our careers a bit, family and sports, she ended up saying that the end “we need to get together again soon!” We hung out on May 6th, she left for vacation a week later and gone for two weeks, so we really had just over a couple weeks to get to know each other. She’s independent and a very busy person.
Why does playing the long game get such a bad connotation?
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