Hi,

Im doing cold approaches for more than 1 year now. I pretty much lost the anxiety of approaching random girls so for sure I kinda did improbe my game. Anyway Im still having the same kind of problems that I had in the beginning: Its kinda hard for me to get a nice and fluent conversation going. I still feel a bit awkward when approaching women and mostly saying more or less the same things: first make a compliment and then introduce myself by handshake, ask her for her job or what shes doing right now, where she lives and so on. It happens very rarely that the girls are really talkative. Mostly they just answer my questions and maybe ask counter questions. So my conversations are mostly pretty short because I have the feeling they're not so much into that right now and I dont want to disturb them. So I ask rather quick for a date and her contacts and leave. Then write her a short whatsapp the day after on when exactly to set up a date.

I had sex with about 10 women due to cold approach in this year, with several of them I had kind of an affair and I had sex with them on the first or second date. So in general Im not too unattractive and also not to incompetent about dealing with women. I also receive a lot of numbers - about 1 of 10 girls give me their number. But most of them dont even reply me to my message later. And even among the girls who reply at first the majority will stop replying or cancel the date...

I tryed some instant dates meanwhile with mixed up results. Had 2 instant dates recently of which the one was pretty good and one was at least good (I felt a little bit uncomfortable but I made her laugh several times and she complimented me so I think it wasnt too bad), anyway both of them didnt go on date with me finally..

So what Im thinking about right now is this:

  1. Less direct approach so that the girl feels less overwhelmed and less pressure at the beginning of the approach (will lead to longer talks and more numbers I hope, but for sure will also lead to more efforts in vain as also more engaged or otherwise not interested girls might enjoy this kind of conversation)
  2. approaching in different situations. My approaches are mostly in the streets so the girls are moving somewhere and often dont have much time. I think there are much better situations - in a store or a library for example. Unfortunately I hate approaches while wearing a mask so I just didnt try this extensive
  3. I think my main issue is how to get a longer conversation going and building up more comfort. Ive read that you shouldnt ask too much but as the girls are mostly rather shy or startled in these situations I often dont know what else to say when you dont want to ask.. Something I "learned" is to comment on the situation like " ah, you seem to be in a very good" or "youre also enjoying a walk in the sun" or stuff like that. Its a good starting point but you cant do it all the time. I also noticed that I often just dont know how to comment on the girls answers. For example I ask her what shes doing and shes telling "oh, Im doing distributional stuff" or "Im working as a personell manager"... Im a teacher myself so if shes doing some social stuff I kinda know what to say but a lot of girls are into business or something like that. It doesnt interest me. So all I could is ask another question...
  4. ...so what do you think about my thoughts and what advice do you have especially on building rapport and comfort in a conversation?