1 - The woman goes distant, doesn’t reply anymore or takes more time than usual now to respond.

2 - The guy feels the interest fading. He knows her attitude isn’t the same as the beginning.

3 - He wants answers so he pressures her to make a decision about him. He says something like: “If you are not interested just say it, dont worry i won’t get mad”

4 - The woman claims she is still interested, but adds an “It’s not you, it’s me” excuse. “I’m just so busy, but i’ll let you know”

5 - The guy assumes it really is true the excuse because she gave him some hope, when in reality she is just not interested but she will never admit or recognise that to him no matter how much the guy pressures her to “just say it”.

6 - The woman does the “slow fade tactic”, continues to answer here and then, but never commits towards meeting up and if she agrees to a date, she always ends up cancelling last minute, because of some urgent external circumstance out of her control.

7 - The guy continues building up more and more frustration and resentment because the woman doesn’t do what he wants and feels like she is leading him on.

8 - The woman either stops replying until the guy just gives up on his own because he can’t handle it anymore or continues the slow fade perpetually. Deep down he hates that she wasn’t clear and honest about her lack of interest with him.

9 - But the woman doesn’t care about that, in her mind she did right and will continue to do it that way no matter how many guys complain to her about that slow fade tactic.

10 - The guy starts to hate women, hates seduction and dating subs, behaves like an incel and turns to red-pill subs to cope with his anger. That’s in the best case scenario, in the worst case he shows up on the news after he did something to the woman and ends up being locked up in jail.

The end.

Look at the “bright” side, you just now realised that you were not the only man experiencing this.

But, the reality is that there is indeed a way out of this cycle. It’s just not gonna be easy, as it requires learning and humility. And also accepting women as they are, rather than wasting time fantasising about how women should be in an ideal world.