The quiet ones

You don't know who she is, until you try to accelerate

(2018)

Earlier this week a ridiculously quiet, reticent woman who I know only slightly declined my invitation to get a drink, and while I'm obviously fine with that, she reminded me of "Emma," a woman I slept with a couple years ago.

I knew Emma slightly through work (she didn't work with me or for me and our connection was sufficiently distant for me pursing her to be not a problem). Emma was pretty, a high six or maybe low seven, and very quiet. "Very quiet" is an understatement… she barely spoke or moved.

When I first talked to her, I don't remember what I said, but I do remember how she barely reacted. She'd answer questions with a word or sentence… somehow I got her number and got her to agree to get a drink with me. She seemed surprised when I asked, almost as if she was unfamiliar with common dating scripts.

On the first date she was very quiet and nervous. But she complied with pretty much everything I asked. We went to a first bar, a second bar, then back to my apartment. I probably spoke 85 to 95% of the time we were together.

Most guys will have to lead the conversation most of the time in most ways at the start of a relationship, from the moment the open happens. It’s good to practice good conversation and invite a woman to speak, and a guy often knows the seduction is going well when the woman invests more in the conversation than he does. The conversational dynamic flips, as the woman's investment increases. This doesn't always happen (and often doesn't), but it's a positive sign when it does.

That didn't happen with Emma. She never warmed. I've been out with a handful of girls like her, but none who I can think of who were as extreme as her. Those girls confused me, but the seduction itself and the lead up to sex was a little confusing because they didn’t give off any positive signals, but ultimately simple. I have a theory about why: because those silent, but compliant, girls are dysfunctionally anti-social, almost no guy will pursue them, because from the outside they seem cold. But they may not be cold. Normal men don’t get past their social dysfunction, so a guy who can ignore it and focus on her compliance can still fuck. Normal men get discouraged by weirdly silent chicks. A man who has learned from the seduction arts to assume the “yes” unless she’s an explicit “no” will persevere.

The first night we kissed and I got Emma to her underwear, but she refused to go further. I think she got herself off with her own fingers, or maybe she faked it... I don't know or, now, care. She came over for dinner as a second date and we had sex.

In bed she wasn't great, but by then I'd learned to be sufficiently dominant that I didn't care much about "her" skill level, which could be a post of its own: I read stories about guys who complain about women who "starfish." While starfishing is lame, a dominant guy should have a gameplan for how to deal with it and how to show the woman where to go, when to go there, how to move there, and what to do when she's there. Use a collar, restraints, rope, etc. as needed. If she's bad at sex, chances are she'll like being told what to do even more than most chicks do. Most girls respond well to being picked up and chucked around.

I did that with Emma and while an active, engaged girl who likes to express her sexuality is obviously better than an inept one, I can deal with inept and still have a pretty good time.

Unfortunately, after four or five sessions, Emma began to open up about her social anxiety. This was right about the time she was also getting the hang of sex. She'd only had sex with two guys, a one-night stand in college and a boyfriend, and both had apparently been shit in bed. We all know that girls lie about sex constantly, but I believed her because she was so inept. Maybe there were a couple more she omitted.

When the dam broke, I heard way more about Emma than I wanted to. Quiet, it turns out in her case, was better than noisy. I heard about her anxiety, her fear, her family (also full of nutjobs). A little before that happened, I asked her what she liked about me and she could only shrug and say I was "cute." Meaning, I persevered through her off-putting silences. Plenty of girls have bad girl game.

Apart from her giving me her number and showing up, she did nothing to help things along. She didn't suggest things. I practically ordered drinks for her.

Realistically, I should've just let her be in the first place, but she was pretty and not hard to get in bed (for me). Once there, she did what I wanted to do, and I should've cut her off earlier than I did... like many men I can be weak in the face of pussy, and she got severe oneitis for me. A guy who is sufficiently high status, or sufficiently high status in the eyes of a few women, gets to experience what the typical woman does, and it's revealing.

When Emma told me that she loved me after like six weeks of sex, I knew I had to break things off. I stupidly tried to ease back towards casual sex, which made her chase me more. So the breakup was not very clean, although I technically did nothing wrong, except fuck a chick in a way that she'd never been fucked before, which she interpreted as love. This isn't a brag about how I'm so great in bed; I don't think I am, necessarily, but I'm technically good and know how to pay attention to women, like most guys probably don't. I should have given her a copy of THE GAME and told her to practice her seduction skills, she needed help beyond what could or wanted to give her.

Chicks give up easily because they're chicks, one guy departs and another will take his place, if she's remotely attractive and thin. Listening to chunky chicks complain about dating is pure comedy, their number one problem is failing to put the soda and pizza away and eat more vegetables. If a guy wants to make things happen, he can sometimes do so by continuing, in a socially aware way, even in the face of female ambivalence. Chicks live in the land of "maybe." Single ones do anyhow, the more go-get-em chicks who want to be in relationships, are in relationships. If you've never been taken down by a predatory female, you're missing out, it's great. Emma kept complying up to sex, despite her apparent indifference.

Quiet girls want sex too. They're just incapable of showing it a lot of the time. They wait for some guy to advance them into it. Be that guy.