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mjcecomc
Jul 9, 2005, 05:50 AM
I broke up with my girlfriend about 4 weeks ago. She ssaid she thought of me more as a friend, than a boyfriend. However she still wants to meet every week, she's texting me all the time and she seems to get jealous whenever I do something without her or mention another girl.

I'm not sure what's going on - is she just confused or what? What tis the bext thing for me to do

risicupman
Jul 9, 2005, 06:49 PM
Sounds like to me she still has feelings for you and is maybe having second thoughts about if she wants to be just friends. The same thing happened to me with my girlfriend. She did the same stuff that yours is doing. In the end she told me that she felt like she made a big mistake. My advice to you is talk to her about it and what you have been noticing with her. You never know what she might be feeling unless you ask her. Hope this helps at all.

fredg
Jul 10, 2005, 05:12 AM
Hi,
Give her some time, away from you.
Don't reply to anything she does, for now.
Let her make up her own mind what she wants. You can't be "in love" with her, and be her friend at the same time, if you know what I mean.
The longer you string this out, the harder it will be on you.
Leave her alone, give her a couple of months without you. She might decide she is in love with you... more than a friend.
If not, then you willl know for sure, and can make new friends.
Best wishes,
fredg

Wildcat21
Jul 10, 2005, 12:36 PM
Give her time Dude - DO NOT RESPOND! Do not!

I have a feeling you were too much of a "Nice Guy". Too available.

Availability

People want what they can't have. By constantly making yourself available, you're actually diminishing your value. This is not a trick or a game to play, but a function of human nature. Attraction is not a fixed value. This means that what someone thinks about you is determined to a large extent by what you do, not but just who you are or what you look like. The law of scarcity is prevalent and relevant in every area of our lives, especially here. That which is plentiful is often under appreciated and that which is rare is held in high regard and considered valuable. When you are dating someone whom you are not interested in, you tend to make yourself available which is convenient for you. And when you're dating someone who you really like you're consistently available. Do the reverse.

This means when you're dating someone you don't like too much, if you are not baking cookies for him, calling him twice a day asking where the relationship is going, and so on, then don't do it with the person you like. And by the way, when you do this with the ones you don't like, they'll be scared off soon enough, so you've eliminated this problem as well.

Usually to get someone to like you, you want to make yourself available, because this increases liking. If this is so, doesn't it contradict the law of scarcity? Here's what is often misunderstood. If you want someone to like you, then you do indeed want to be in their company fairly often. This is true, but remember that liking is the foundation of every relationship. That means that once you move past the liking stage (meaning the person is already fond of you) and the relationship unfolds into something more serious, then you want to limit your availability.

Here's a question. Don't we often see good-looking people with attractive people with attractive partners and vice versa? If attraction has little to do with appearance then why is this so? It's because we are often most comfortable with those of similar levels of attractiveness. (This coincides with studies that show that people are generally friends with those of similar levels of attractiveness.) A good-looking person can sometimes make a less attractive person uncomfortable. So this less attractive person tends to lose perspective and act differently - meaning that she puts the person on a pedestal and does the four things outlined in this chapter that she shouldn't be doing. But it's the things that she's doing -not her - the physical person -which makes the difference. This is validated by the fact that sometimes attractive people are with less attractive people. In these relationships it's likely that the less attractive person feels confident about the relationship and hence behaves differently than their less attractive counterparts. (This "confidence" is replicated here when we apply the four factors to gaining leverage in the relationship.)