Thanks to all for the ton of responses in my 'I will coach one of you for free' thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/3pqriq/i_will_coach_one_of_you_for_free_on_here_and_help/

There were a variety of interesting issues presented, but one that came up over and over (7 times by my count), was guys who can make conversation with girls, even make them laugh and have a great time...but struggle to break down the walls and actually talk about anything deep.

If you never have deep conversations with anyone, you'll struggle to actually connect. You'll experience a lot of fun 'surface level' connections, but nothing more than that. Women will enjoy being around you if you're fun, but you'll find that they don't necessarily REALLY like you, in a 'chasing you down' kind of way. You'll get more flakes, and you'll have to chase far too hard in order to get them to meet you for day 2's, etc.

Well done to KER86 who posted in that thread.

TO KER86: I'm going to ask you some questions to understand your situation better. Look out for my reply to this below for the first question. Make sure you reply to that. I want to get a single thread running with back and forth answers so it's easy to follow. I just ask you to be as honest as you can. If at any time you don't understand or you have questions, please say whatever you need to say.

TO EVERYONE ELSE: Please resist the urge to try and coach along with me in the same thread below. I want this to be a single thread of back and forth answers that is easy to follow. By all means make comments, but do it separately to the live coaching thread. If you can upvote the first post in that thread as well, it would be helpful, so that the live coaching appears first.