It’s been 14 years since this happened, so my memory might be a bit rusty and some events might have been amalgaminated, but I like this story too much to not tell it, so here it is.
I’ve been raised pretty sheltered and was always more of a Nice Guy™. That wasn’t to say I was totally unsuccessful with women since I’ve never been bad looking and did have some talents (playing the piano worked remarkably well with girls back then), but it was that I always put in a lot of love and effort into my relationships and the more I gave, the more I seemed to push girls away — all the while the girls I talked to complained about the mean guys in their lifes but never could emotionally get past them. I could never quite get my head around this.
But this was the time in my life where I got into contact with some concepts like TRP and the Mystery Method and suddenly a whole lot of things started to make sense in my head. Especially the epiphany about how teasing and holding back builds way more attraction than just plain giving a woman what she says she wants.