Am I forgetting something?
Forgive the newbie question, but after reading this forum / thread, I decided to sign up with SA to aid my search for a low volume UTR ('m not in Richmond.) I've noticed that if I message a girl, I can see that it's read. But I'm not getting many responses maybe 30-40% or so. My usual initial message reads something like "Hi Susie, I'm Pete. Would you be interested in exchanging a few messages to see if we're a good fit?" I don't want to scare off the non-professional / first timers with some type of aggressive message. I've had some great responses as well, and have learned that Harrisonburg isn't as dry of an area as the forum here would suggest LOL. But, I'm afraid that I'm not doing some obvious step that would encourage many of the "readers" to become "responders. " Is there some unwritten courtesy that I need to know about?
Keeping SBs "on the shelf"
[QUOTE=JeezLizard;3056830]I can only tell you how I handle this. I use non-sugar related excuses to keep second string girls in the possible lineup. Always have some reason why you can't start with them right now (job related travel, family issues, whatever), but tell them you'd like to meet them in the future.
Nine times out of ten they will see right through this and know that it means you're busy dating others -- why? Because they do the exact same thing when making busy excuses. Most girls (especially SBs) are well-versed in the art of dishonesty and thus they do not expect honesty from their SD.
What they do expect is that you don't say something to piss them off, and bottom line is that women are unpredictable so you can't be sure what will piss them off.
As someone pointed out, women are competitive, so conventional wisdom is that competition against another woman will lead to better behavior, and it does when the competitive vibe is properly executed, but it may not always be easy to execute properly. Invoking a woman's jealousy instinct is best performed after she already is a little emotionally invested with you, and best done in very subtle ways (I. E. Letting her see your eyes wander, sneaking off to answer a mystery text, etc). If you do those things too soon (before she's developed some degree of financial or emotional dependency on you), she does not yet have reason enough to care.
And, women respect tact, so if you come out honestly and direct (like men usually prefer to do) and say "there's another girl I'm interested in", there is a possibility she will interpret that as immaturity on your part or that you're not clever enough to hide it or capable enough to juggle multiples. It doesn't matter that her reasoning is wrong, it won't stop her from using that to justify it in her mind.
One way of looking at it, what would you do if a girl you're interested in says "well there's another SD I prefer to start up with now, but will you be available later if it doesn't work out"? Most of us would just move on to the next one.
At least if you leave it with an excuse that she can't possibly reflect back on herself as something to be taken personally, you can always reconnect with her in the future (assuming she is still available when you want to). I've done this countless times, even reconnecting with girls I intentionally went dark on 2 or 3 years prior. For example "Hey, I was just going through some old e-mails and I realized somehow we lost touch". I think you'd be surprised how many of them are immediately ready to rekindle things. Maybe not so much if they felt you chose another girl over them at one point.[/QUOTE]I have been in the bowl for over two years, and one thing I have found is that it is often feast or famine. I've had weeks when it looked like I might end up meeting as many as four girls the next week, and it turns out that I end up meeting none. Other times, I've thought that I was entering a drought, and all of a sudden there's more than I can handle. That makes it hard to calibrate the number of POTs to be interacting with at once, and it means that sometimes I've had to put things on hold when it looked like I was heading toward meeting someone. What I've often done is to tell them that there was someone that I was talking with before I was talking to her and that I didn't think that it was going to go anywhere but it unexpectedly is, but that if it doesn't go anywhere I'm really still interested in meeting them. So, it's not so much that I'm telling them that they're my second choice in a head-to-head contest, but rather that someone else got there first. (My job is not such that long job-related absences would be plausible, which they wouldn't know at this time, but they might know later if I end up meeting them). I've usually had fairly positive reactions that and have been able to go back a couple of times to someone I had earlier been talking to. Mostly, I think they appreciate that I didn't just go dark on them when I told them I couldn't meet them right away, which I guess is a common experience.
I can't say that this is the optimal approach, but it has worked reasonably well for me.
I must say that I love the bowl. I am in my mid-60's and am enjoying the best sex of my life with girls who are one-half to one-third my age. I've met a number of extremely attractive, bright, fun girls this way. It is so much better than seeing escorts (although I have seen several escorts who were top-notch people).
High Expectations and No Relations
I viewed a profile today that had high expectations and a clear no sexual relations statement. I usually just move on, but chose to message her to see how her search was going.
I was very polite and just expressed surprise that I had never seen both in the same profile and wanted to know how her search was going. To my surprise, she replied with an interest in my profile and explained that she had not had any luck since everyone was interested in sex.
I clearly explained that although I didn't want an arrangement based only on sex, I'm sure no arrangement would hold my attention if sex wasn't part of the agreement.
We messaged back and forth for a while and she is now interested in meeting with an understanding of my expectations.
We will see how it proceeds, but it was clear she had no concept of how much "high" really is and thought there would be no men she was actually attracted to.
More to come....