Denizens of theredpill, I need help. Straight up. I've come here to vent and hopefully learn.

I've reached a point where something has to give, something needs to change. So here's the tipping point.

I'm a backpacker working at a country town bar, nothing special. I live there and work, with some money coming out my pay for living expense.

So I've got the night off and these two girls come in, both pretty attractive. They were backpackers too so I approach and chat. They are staying in the pub for the night while some repairs are done on their car. It felt like chemistry, me and this girl talk literally all evening and all night. The pub closed so I invited her to a living area out back to continue chatting. It felt good, she moves close to me, we chat more and exchange pictures from our travels. She tells me about her problems in life and what she wants and so on. The time goes on and on and eventually we just both go to bed. Our separate beds.

A couple of nights later a regular mentions it to me. "Get laid the other night?" I tell him what happened and he asks me why I didn't close. I couldn't even respond, I just didn't know.

Truth be told, I have no idea how to close. No idea at all.

I've had several similar things happen over the last six months, and I'm fed up.

So how do I start taking control again?