I've been single for well over a year now, trying to find a serious LTR & picking up whatever ass I can along the way. In comparing results with other guys, I've found that literally every time I ask for a girl's number, she gives it up (aside from once where the girl legit didn't have a cell phone, and she gave me another form of communication instead). And then for dating sites (OKC, Tinder) I get matches fairly often.

But in both cases, I rarely get replies from women when I message/call/text them. I've tried the "Wait X amount of time" anywhere form immediately texting to Two days of wait time ((And everything in between)) Is there something I should be doing to change my messages to garner more responses?

Right now the part of my game I'm really working on is Escalation, I've had a girl literally put my hands on her neck and tell me how she likes to be choked in a bar & I freeze up like a deer in headlights. Do I possibly need to try and escalate straight out the gate?