Well first of all hi! I am totally new to this subreddit and pretty much know nothing about PUA or any of this, but I gather you guys know a lot about female nature, so maybe you could help me out on this one too.

Ok, this is weird, but let me explain...

So, I am currently on this phase, I guess you could call it a MGTOW phase; I decided to focus on my self improvement and go on a little period of celibacy actually - semen retention and nofap. But I still want to be friendly and have fun with people. I have a new career and there is a lot of women in my work and my school - I'm in a type of field now where 99% of the people are females.

But I feel that I have trouble communicate with women as a friend. Even when I don't want them sexually I feel they often tend to misunderstand me trying to be friendly as flirting or something. I'm not used to having female friends, all my friends are dudes.

How do you avoid that? How do I make them see me more as their girlfriend or gay friend? How do I act? What do I do? How do I start conversations and do small talk to not be misunderstood? Body langue maybe? Any advice would be great! Please help guys? :)