It can be a scary moment when you have to wonder if a guy actually wants a relationship with you.
As a woman, how would you know if he doesnât want a relationship with you?
It seems like a simple question that should have a simple answer. But when youâre emotionally involved with a man, it can get confusing.
You may ask why he doesnât entirely leave your life, yet it still feels like heâs not fully âinâ with you and committed to you.
If you want the answer to that specific question, I also have an article on Why does he keep me around if he doesnât want a relationship?Â
After my extensive research in love, relationships and masculine feminine polarity as well as helping women for going on 11 years, Iâd have to be stupid to not notice glaring signs that a man doesnât want a relationship with you.
Without further ado, here are the 6 burning signs he doesnât want a relationship with you.
- Sign number 1: You have to initiate every time & he doesnât initiate back.
- Sign number 2: Heâs got unspoken or blatant rules to ensure you cannot take too much
- Sign number 3: You feel like thereâs always a distance between you.
- Sign number 4: heâs only there when he wants something.
- Sign number 5: heâs not invested in your emotions
- Sign number 6: He tells you he doesnât want a relationship with you.
- Men and women are different…
Sign number 1: You have to initiate every time & he doesnât initiate back.
Initiation of contact should be reciprocal.
Itâs the most basic thing a man (or woman) can do when conversing with their love interest. The simple act of initiating in return.
Of course, at times you may initiate 60% and he 40%.
Other times, he may initiate 70% and you 30%, and so on.
The percentage depends on whether one of you has something going on and needs to communicate more.
It really depends on whether one of you has more to say, or simply that one of you needs the other more at that particular moment in time.
That change of percentage is very normal, and you want to keep it that way; roll with it.
But at some point not long after you guys first become an item, there must be a balance that roughly equates toâ¦.you guessed it. Reciprocal, responsive and equal initiation of contact.
Here’s a video I made on the 6 Burning Signs He Doesn’t Want A Relationship With YOU.
Hereâs what a lot of women do when they have chased a man too much
When women feel like they have chased too much or over-initiated, they often take on funny rules and ideas to try to regain some feeling or control or self worth.
Some ideas or rules are good, but the vast majority of them are plain bad. Or morally wrong.
Here’s an example of what women sometimes do. They try to âfixâ the problem of chasing a man by taking on the ridiculous 80/20 rule in their relationship.
The 80/20 rule or paretoâs principle, was a rule for other areas of life (not in love and relationships).
But some women mistakenly use it to guide their initiation with men. So what they do is they only initiate contact 20% of the time, while the guy is expected to initiate at least 80% of the time.
This will not work for you either.
As one man accurately said about this rule: âthe only men that this rule would work on is the men that women donât want.â
If you feel like youâre doing too much chasing, then of course, it will pay to stop. You never want to chase a man blindly.
Instead, you should learn to initiate in high value ways.
Don’t rely on silly rules to try to “make” him interested
If you decide to pull back and make him initiate, to âre-setâ, that can be ok, as a way to relax and initially change your chasing behaviour.
However, moving forward, there must be a sense of mutual responsiveness between you both.
Sometimes women heavily rely on the rule of leaning back with men, to try to make men chase them.
Leaning back isn’t wrong per se, but just like the 80/20 rule, leaning back has very clear dangers that you should be aware of.
You can never rely on the 80/20 rule of initiating contact with a man to have a successful relationship.
Otherwise, if one is far more invested than the other, itâs a recipe for heartache in the long-run.
No man will genuinely fall in love with you that way, because for two people to fall in love, there must be hyper-attunement.
The 80/20 rule does not model any form of attunement. Itâs just a rule to try to curb your own uncertainty or fear.
Hereâs why the 80/20 Rules of Contacting A Man will Likely Make You Lose Him.
Sign number 2: Heâs got unspoken or blatant rules to ensure you cannot take too much
…or have too much of him.
This kind of behaviour should send an obvious signal to you: that he doesnât care about having a relationship with you. Period.
If heâs setting all these rules for you to ensure that you canât ask much of him, or get too exclusive with him, thatâs a sign to take note of.
If he has a bunch of rules about when, how, why to talk to him or contact him (whilst you have no rules for him), thatâs a clear signal that he doesnât care.
This womanâs post in our facebook group sums up this particular phenomenon very well. Have a read of it:Â
Ask yourself: does it feel like I could break up with this man today, and he wouldnât care a whole lot about me breaking up with him?
Ask yourself: does this manâs unspoken or blatant rules make me feel like our ârelationshipâ is not a safe place for me to go to when I need him?
Ask yourself: does this manâs unspoken or blatant rules repeatedly make you feel undervalued, isolated and ignored?
Maybe you could simply tap into your gut feeling. Your gut knows when something is up. So, listen to it.
Sign number 3: You feel like thereâs always a distance between you.
You try to get closer, but he is unresponsive to your attempts to get closer.
Do you feel like thereâs an emotional distance, or a gap between you that is never closed, no matter how hard you try?
Sure, not all of us women go about trying to get closer to a man in the right ways. In fact, some of us push men away with the wrong strategies.
However, if it always feels like youâre wanting to connect and he couldnât care less about connecting with you (never responds to your attempts to connect), thatâs a bad sign.
Some men will keep you around. Yet they will always make sure that thereâs enough space for another, new woman to enter into his life.
Some men will keep you around, but always make sure that you are feeling empty of his presence.
A man who has at least an average level of intelligence and cares about you, will FEEL it when you need him.
He may need a little time and experience to understand your needs, but youâll feel him trying. And he will do his best to respond if indeed he wants a relationship with you.
A man who doesn’t want a relationship with you will leave you feeling like this…
A man who doesnât want a relationship with you will leave you feeling angry, hurt and lost from the lack of emotional bonding between you.
Itâs simple. Listen to that anger and that hurt. Donât ignore it. Zoom out a little, and see the truth of the matter: he doesnât care, no matter how much he says he does.
If you are feeling unsure about how much your man cares, hereâs something you can do.
Learn the ONE thing you can say (or text) to a man that will capture his attention, trigger his curiosity and make him hang on to every word you say, here.
This ONE thing that you can say, will allow you a final understanding of just how much he is willing to work for you, please you or make you happy.Â
Sign number 4: heâs only there when he wants something.
You get lots of booty calls from him, but no âjust checking in on youâ calls.
He never invites you anywhere with his family or friends, because youâre not that kind of girl/woman to him.
Instead of being the woman whom he wants to involve in almost every aspect of his life, heâd rather keep you at arms length.
….and basically keep you as the “available” woman whom he can take from.
And he will keep extracting value from you for as long as you allow him to.
So here’s the reason for this. He either just never really felt any real emotional connection and emotional attraction between you…
Or he sees you as an easy woman who he can push around and dominate in order to satisfy his own desires.
Weâve all had a friend or a guy in our lives who was annoyingly, well, annoying.
They only call when they want something. Yet when you need something, thereâs minimal effort on their part to add value back to you.
Feel that annoyance and that anger. Because the last thing you want to do is to be desensitised to these feelings. These feelings are there to help you, to guide you.
Donât ignore them!
Sign number 5: heâs not invested in your emotions
….(and therefore he doesnât get to know the people you care about).
If youâre wondering whether a man wants a relationship with you, it helps to understand the signs he is falling in love with you.
A man in love will invest in you and your emotions.
There will be no doubt that when you have emotions, he’ll be there a lot of the time.
No matter how difficult or how wonderful your emotions are, he also feels them and is affected by them.
A man who is mostly nonchalant about your emotions isnât invested in you.
One of the crystal clear signals that a man does want a relationship with you is that he will care about the people that you care about.
This is because heâs invested in you.
When a man is invested in you, he will also invest in the relationships that mean a lot to you. He will want to get to know these people, understand your relationship with them, and potentially even befriend them himself).
So if your mother or father die and you are grieving, then he will feel empathy for you.
Of course, he may not be there physically as much as you wish.
(In fact, this may be because he is a man, and masculine men often grieve by creating more space around them in order to process it).
It may be because he has to be at work, or perhaps he doesn’t know how to solve your problem.
However, even if heâs not physically there with you, youâll get the feeling that he feels a bit of what you feel.
Sign number 6: He tells you he doesnât want a relationship with you.
If he says it, he means it.
Men arenât women, and women arenât men. Well, not last time I checked anyways.
In other words, men donât communicate like women.
Men actually mean what they say. If he says âI donât want a relationship with you.â
It doesnât mean âI donât want a relationship with you, oh I dunno maybe. Perhaps in 2 hours or two weeks I will want a relationship. Actually let me just think about it and I might turn around and say something different in two weeks.â
No.
It means he does NOT want a relationship with you. And this is obviously one of the signs that he doesnât want a relationship with you.
Men and women are different…
As women we have a wide range of emotions. This wide range of emotions comes through in our communication.
As such, more often than not, our communication depends on how we feel during that moment in time.
Sure, sometimes men say things they donât really mean in a moment of anger or hurt. But not nearly as much as women do.
This is because men who are masculine at their core are far more consistent.
Theyâre more consistent due to the fact that in order to maintain this masculine equilibrium, they donât want to increase drama or emotions, they prefer to decrease them.
Emotions donât always serve in the realm of the masculine. The masculine is an unchanging energy. Here are 5 insights on men that will ease your worries.
It is not the ever changing and flowing energy of life.
They want to be empty. Being empty allows them to solve problems, move forward, get the kill, and escape from the chaos of life.
So expect that if he says he doesnât want a relationship, that he has made up his mind already and wonât change it.
Donât second guess it unless you have an outstanding reason to do so!
By the way, if you want the process of having your chosen man want to commit to you be easy, I would love to help.
The way to make the commitment process easy (and to reduce a man’s commitment resistance) is by showing up as the one and only women.
You can find out more about this concept of becoming his one and only in my new online study program “Becoming his one and only”.
