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What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:04pm On Dec 04, 2016
One of the more ridiculous pieces of advice I hear spun out to women with frightening regularity is " Play hard to get ."

Where does this stuff come from? The whole playing hard to get thing is archaic, 19th century nonsense.


Most reasonable guys have no interest or tolerance for the "hard to get" game. The men love the chase myth has been propagated for years with very little (if any) rebuttal. It's just one of those things that has always been openly declared and just as openly unchallenged, so the myth has become accepted fact.

The fact that the woman doesn't need us makes her a challenge .
But what guys don't love, is the chase. When you think about the concept of the chase with a healthy dose of logic, it's crystal clear why that type of gamesmanship makes little sense.

Why begin something new and potentially great by pretending to be uninterested initially?
When you pretend to be less interested than you really are, does this not set the tone for the rampant 'game-playing' aspect of dating most of us want eliminated?

Additionally, a guy may decide that he's wasting his time because he can't figure out where he stands. So while you and your girlfriends are busy trying to "make him work for it" because you don't want to seem too eager or too interested, he's moved on because he met someone who was interested and wasn't afraid to be open about it.
I'm not saying that women should throw their dignity on the craps table. I'm not saying stuff your underwear into a guy's shirt pocket with a hotel key attached to it. No one's advocating that you get all possessive and Fatal Attraction-esque; we're just saying to keep it real.

Scraped together : KissChrix
Credit : Yourtango

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by FvckShiT(m): 1:07pm On Dec 04, 2016
So da fūcking pússy wont come fūcking cheap grin

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:07pm On Dec 04, 2016
Just women? undecided

Really? You do realize that men do all the things women do, right?

It depends what you mean by hard to get. If a woman/man is not interested and makes this clear, then she/he is not playing hard to get and she/he has the right to be left alone and not pursued or harassed in any way.

If that person is interested but is too immature to say so, then you ought to question why you're so interested in them in the first place.

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:07pm On Dec 04, 2016
You play hard to get, i ignore your silly ass... No time to waste on babe. I've got many others waiting in line.

If you really think playing hard to get might make you look like a quality girlfriend material, then your IQ is really outdated undecided

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by MackBrooklyn: 1:09pm On Dec 04, 2016
Because they probably know it is not every "I love you" said to them is genuine. Most or lemme just say some are just offered as passwords to unlock their legs into a sexual position cool

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by ikp120(m): 1:15pm On Dec 04, 2016
undecided

Play hard to get for me and watch me delete you without looking back.cool cool

There is nothing I hate like being the only party interested in a relationship.angry
If you're not interested, then I'm not interested either cool cool tongue.
If you're interested, then I'm interested too wink grin

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by marshalcarter: 1:20pm On Dec 04, 2016
u dey mind dem??
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by ObioratheBully: 1:21pm On Dec 04, 2016
undecided

Im not afraid to hustle and I don't give up easy.. So I don't really mind a girl who plays hard to get, the best things in life aren't free or easy to come by..


However, I know where to draw the line..

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:23pm On Dec 04, 2016
It's a concept I don't understand either, as a woman either you like the guy or you don't and the sooner you let him know the less absorbing it is for both of you. This endless merry go around is an alien concept to me. This is why some women are single seriously a guy has a full time job already pursing you should not be a job in itself and please don't give me any bs about being easy and all that playing hard to get does not make you morally superior it makes you a very indecisive and potentially quite irritating.

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by wordbank(m): 1:24pm On Dec 04, 2016
Translate this in money language then I will understand

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:30pm On Dec 04, 2016
Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders...
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:31pm On Dec 04, 2016
Raine80:
It's a concept I don't understand either, as a woman either you like the guy or you don't and the sooner you let him know the less absorbing it is for both of you. This endless merry go around is an alien concept to me. This is why some women are single seriously a guy has a full time job already pursing you should not be a job in itself and please don't give me any bs about being easy and all that playing hard to get does not make you morally superior it makes you a very indecisive and potentially quite irritating.

Exactly...... Why play hard to get when you know you'll say yes eventually undecided

Or why keep Him suspenseful when you don't like or feel anything for Him?

Lalasticlala smiley

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:32pm On Dec 04, 2016
bbmpin:
Just women? undecided

Really? You do realize that men do all the things women do, right?

It depends what you mean by hard to get. If a woman/man is not interested and makes this clear, then she/he is not playing hard to get and she/he has the right to be left alone and not pursued or harassed in any way.

If that person is interested but is too immature to say so, then you ought to question why you're so interested in them in the first place.




It's rare to see a Lady chase a guy undecided

Even if She gives the guy signals, She'll still expect the guy to act first undecided

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:35pm On Dec 04, 2016
Evul beings,they use it to hook guys on long term,financially,emotionally, doesn't Work for me, i go for the less conceited n arrogant.

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:35pm On Dec 04, 2016
bbmpin:
Just women? undecided

Really? You do realize that men do all the things women do, right?

It depends what you mean by hard to get. If a woman/man is not interested and makes this clear, then she/he is not playing hard to get and she/he has the right to be left alone and not pursued or harassed in any way.

If that person is interested but is too immature to say so, then you ought to question why you're so interested in them in the first place.



Hmmmm. That last piece there

Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:46pm On Dec 04, 2016
ObioratheBully:
undecided

Im not afraid to hustle and I don't give up easy.. So I don't really mind a girl who plays hard to get, the best things in life aren't free or easy to come by..


However, I know where to draw the line..

Beyond that line is what I'm referring to as 'Playing hard to get' cool

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:48pm On Dec 04, 2016
Stretchi:
Evul beings,they use it to hook guys on long term,financially,emotionally, doesn't Work for me, i go for the less conceited n arrogant.

Lol... Drain a guy Physically, Emotionally, Financially ...... Lead the guy on and then give Him a no at the end of the day

Smart guys would've sensed

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:49pm On Dec 04, 2016
play hard to get with me for more than a week.. it's bye forever baby tongue

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:50pm On Dec 04, 2016
I don't chase Ladies though.... There are more useful things to do in life than inflating a ladies's ego all in the name of chasing Her undecided

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by KingRex1(m): 1:50pm On Dec 04, 2016
Playing hard to get is itself a turn off to me..
Well with the way I am, thers no chance for that.

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 1:56pm On Dec 04, 2016
KissChrix:
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Most reasonable guys have no interest or tolerance for the "hard to get" game.

I beg to differ. On behalf of most reasonable guys,l say we have the interest and tolerance for the ''hard to get'' game - if she's worth it.
I for one,enjoy the chase.
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 2:01pm On Dec 04, 2016
ItsTheBachelor:


I beg to differ. On behalf of most reasonable guys,l say we have the interest and tolerance for the ''hard to get'' game - if she's worth it.
I for one,enjoy the chase.

Well, that's your own opinion

I can only chase a Lady I know will make a great wife-material

Chasing a girl to date? Nahh

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 2:07pm On Dec 04, 2016
KissChrix:

Well, that's your own opinion
I can only chase a Lady I know will make a great wife-material
Chasing a girl to date? Nahh
But why waste your time dating a girl that you won't marry?

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 2:08pm On Dec 04, 2016
ItsTheBachelor:


But why waste your time dating a girl that you won't marry?

Dating, if done properly, has many advantages


You can't drive a vehicle without learning how to drive

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 2:28pm On Dec 04, 2016
passing thru weakly

Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by BiafranBushBoy: 2:31pm On Dec 04, 2016
MTCHEEWW... SHitty comments everywhere!!!
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 2:39pm On Dec 04, 2016
BiafranBushBoy:
MTCHEEWW... SHitty comments everywhere!!!

D'you mind pinpointing them? smiley


Just wanna know your stand
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by BiafranBushBoy: 2:53pm On Dec 04, 2016
KissChrix:


D'you mind pinpointing them? smiley


Just wanna know your stand

Most niggurs claiming that once a girl plays hard to get, they let the girl be...bla bla bla bla bla...

Are the type that get lots of things just to please an ugly or average chicks!!

When you aim for girls with Dough/super stocked account, you will know that she needs to play hard to screen out assholes!!

Thats why we wait behind for the assholes to move along before we claim our inheritance!! wink

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by Nobody: 3:34pm On Dec 04, 2016
BiafranBushBoy:


Most niggurs claiming that once a girl plays hard to get, they let the girl be...bla bla bla bla bla...

Are the type that get lots of things just to please an ugly or average chicks!!

When you aim for girls with Dough/super stocked account, you will know that she needs to play hard to screen out assholes!!

Thats why we wait behind for the assholes to move along before we claim our inheritance!! wink

lipsrsealedWetin I wan talk sef? undecidedgrin


Your own girl-chasing na for money grin

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by LorDBolton(m): 3:36pm On Dec 04, 2016
KissChrix:
One of the more ridiculous pieces of advice I hear spun out to women with frightening regularity is " Play hard to get ."

Where does this stuff come from? The whole playing hard to get thing is archaic, 19th century nonsense.


Most reasonable guys have no interest or tolerance for the "hard to get" game. The men love the chase myth has been propagated for years with very little (if any) rebuttal. It's just one of those things that has always been openly declared and just as openly unchallenged, so the myth has become accepted fact.

The fact that the woman doesn't need us makes her a challenge .
But what guys don't love, is the chase. When you think about the concept of the chase with a healthy dose of logic, it's crystal clear why that type of gamesmanship makes little sense.

Why begin something new and potentially great by pretending to be uninterested initially?
When you pretend to be less interested than you really are, does this not set the tone for the rampant 'game-playing' aspect of dating most of us want eliminated?

Additionally, a guy may decide that he's wasting his time because he can't figure out where he stands. So while you and your girlfriends are busy trying to "make him work for it" because you don't want to seem too eager or too interested, he's moved on because he met someone who was interested and wasn't afraid to be open about it.
I'm not saying that women should throw their dignity on the craps table. I'm not saying stuff your underwear into a guy's shirt pocket with a hotel key attached to it. No one's advocating that you get all possessive and Fatal Attraction-esque; we're just saying to keep it real.

Scraped together : KissChrix
Credit : Yourtango

There are women who play hard to get

...Then there are women who are hard to get.

Trust me when u jam the latter ehn? You will carry biro n paper to plot their matter cos they worth it at the end.

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Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by BiafranBushBoy: 3:38pm On Dec 04, 2016
KissChrix:


lipsrsealedWetin I wan talk sef? undecidedgrin


Your own girl-chasing na for money grin

bye bye grin cheesy

Enjoy sex wink
Re: What's The Essence Of Playing Hard To Get? by johnstar(m): 3:48pm On Dec 04, 2016
Na all dis 9ja gals dm


Me wey no gt der time, if u playing hard to get for me, I wont disturb myself
If u like make u fine pass mamywater

Der ar many fishes in d ocean

Dats y I like white gals lifestyle if dey like u, dey ll tel u, if dey don't dey ll tell u simple

Our 9ja gals na fish brain dm get

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