I would like to preface my story by acknowledging that I put myself in the friend zone with the girl in this story about 2 years ago at University and know that there will be nothing sexual between us.

I'm about 5"9, ~210 pounds and some muscle in the right departments but I've been working out as much as I can and could feel the difference in my confidence. I'm not nearly as attractive as I could be but I'm working on that one step at a time. I've been reading TRP for a long time now and have only recently gotten around to trying different methods presented and am finding promising changes in the way that women treat me.

Last night I went out clubbing with a friendgirl of mine (we'll call her izzy) and was buzzing to get the drinks flowing. I hadn't seen her in about half a year and wanted to see if I could lead in every conversation/decision taken that night. As soon as we walked into the club I made the decision to not ask for her second opinion - "I'm putting our coats in the cloakroom", "let's get some drinks" (paid for our own drinks of course), "we're going dancing" and whatever I could take charge of.

At first I was worried that Izzy might kick off because she used to take charge when my beta tendencies took over but I was willing to take that risk. I had absolutely no idea how readily she was prepared to give up lead without fuss. At every turn she simply followed what I wanted to do when I wanted to do. Whenever she wanted to do something like get another drink when I wasn't ready yet I told her she needs to wait for me: again, not a word of objection.

Though this didn't save me from my self-instated friendzone, it still felt great testing out setting up a leadership frame and having my friendgirl readily hand over the reigns.

Also, girls are literally the worst wingmen ever.