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A few days ago I was talking on the phone with a close friend of mine from the last place I lived. I was telling him about this new girl I’m seeing and he asked, “Is she the only one?” I asked him what he meant by that.

He said that he was only telling me this because he “cared about me”. He said that not too long after I moved away, 1 girl I used to have feelings for had a gathering with him & several people to talk shit about me. They said I was too thirsty, the girls didn’t know which one of them I really wanted, & I didn’t make any of them feel special.

I lived in this city for 4 years & tried to get to know 5 different girls over time, not all at once. The girl who hosted this talk is the 1st I liked. She rejected me, I moved on.

The 2nd girl approached me first and made the first move. I talked to her 2 months after the 1st turned me down. The 2nd girl curved me & the 3rd girl approached me 3 months later. I talked to her until she popped up with a new boyfriend so I left that alone. 3 months after that, the 4th girl sat on my lap at a dinner party and we talked for 4 months before I even asked her out and when I did, she got upset because it wasn’t a group date then ghosted me. A year & a 1/2 went by until the 5th girl snatched my phone to take a picture with me and we talked until she was no longer interested.

While I was talking to each of these girls, I wasn’t talking to anyone else. My only focus was the current girl at the time. None of these girls are even close friends besides the 3rd and 4th girl.

Their ultimate conclusion was that they didn’t want to have the reputation of being “the 1st to give me some” or “the one I finally got”. My friend agreed with them, but he wasn’t acting like this when I was living there. He seems fake to me. Part of me is glad he told me, then the other part of me wants to cut him off for co-signing their bullshit. Is he real for telling me or did he stab me in the back?

I don't and what I've noticed over the years is that there's a possibility some of the girls i shot my shot with may have not actually rejected to me and maybe they were playing hard to get as once I get signs that they're not into me, I remove myself from the situation and don't talk to them again.

I make my intentions clear and I don't play games, I literally spell it out in plain English that I want us to be boyfriend and girlfriend. This no-nonsense approach has gotten me rejected almost every time but it's also worked exactly twice, with my first girlfriend and my current girlfriend who I've been with for 2 years now.

I view playing games such as dominating the girl, playing hard to get, showing off and stuff as pointless and immature which is why I don't engage in it. I'm also not an interesting person at all despite my turbulent assertive personality but my life as a bad kid allows me to compensate for my boring personality with funny stories from back then.

Do you play games?