So I've been doing well lately, making little progress. I'm getting a lot of IOIs from almost every HB I encounter. Really. Last week I did a FR of a girl I #-closed and she was a really great girl (8.5HB). Still texting her, she texts me back with immediate responses, and I feel good. Days after, I'm out at parties, work, and in public feeling like the man. I'm audacious, alpha, really super duper confident (and suave not douchey), and charismatic.

Girl lives out of town, but she visits my city often and we've flirted about how I'm going to come and visit her when I take my roadtrip through her state. Things are great.

But when I was at the party when I picked her up, my friend who likes to think he's a player is trying to mac on her at the same time as I am too; he fails utterly even when I leave the group during that day and I eventually come out on top.

I see him at another party today and tell him of my success. He tells me, "Haha wow! She told me you were really coming on too strong in the beginning." And I'm thinking, what? Am I doing something wrong? I don't think I was coming off strong, I was simply responding to the attraction I felt that I was getting from her and escalating. Impression>rapport>greater rapport>flirting>close. But that little comment that frickin' comment has thrown me off for the night and my mindsets a blur because I question everything I feel and done so far. Girls don't know what they want right!?

It's thrown me into my old mindset of the dreaded Mr. Nice Guy. And I can't get it out of my head. I can't get it out of my fucking head.

My friends got a personality of trying to gain the upperhand of trying to put people down, but I don't mind it. I'm trying to stay positive, but I don't know: could I have been coming off too strong? I mean I'm getting great responses from her now; she could've blown me off. I never try to come on to strong, I state intent from the get go cause that's my style (subtley, off the spot flirting etc etc).

Guys help me, tell me what I'm doing isn't wrong. I'm not saying, "Lets fuck" creeply, but I don't know. I can't go back to the old mindset I was before.

TL;DR - Old buddies said, "I was coming on too strong." Throws me back into bad mentality of Mr. Nice Guy. Can't seem to remuster confidence I had before.

Edit: I'd like to think I have really good calibration as well. Socially so far it's proven to be true.