Hi ladies, I’m so happy I stumbled across this thread again. It’s been a few years since I’ve visited and I think I’ve lost a bit of myself and my femininity in the process, working in a high stress corporate role and living in a big fast paced city.

I wanted to ask your help for the following situation. I’ve been dating a wonderful man for the past 7 weeks. We have amazing chemistry, shared interests and compatible lifestyles, and I find him incredibly masculine. He has told me that he wants to provide and I can tell he’s infatuated with me.

I ran into a dilemma recently where he’s become increasingly busy with work and I felt neglected. I followed terrible dating advice from friends / YouTube videos and constantly complained to him about the distance, was aggressive and whiny. Yesterday we spent some time together and I withheld sex, and he became extremely frustrated and told me he needs space to cool down. I sent him more complaining texts today, then told him (in an aggressive way) that I no longer wanted to fight and hinted at my desire for him (but in kind of a crude way). I know, I’m mortified writing all of this. He hasn’t replied to me yet. I would really appreciate your help with remedying this situation if possible.

When we first met, I think he had it in his mind that we shared the same values - after all, I told him how I had traditional values and all the women in my family were SAHMs. But after years of dating lower value non traditional men, I didn’t even recognize this one until now - when I feel I may have damaged things forever. Please help advise on how I should proceed. Thank you 💕