Before you start firing at me, I don't necessarily mean long-term relationships with a girl you're intimately involved with. I mean everyday long-term relations with the people around you.

When reading The Game, something I noticed is that Style, Mystery, etc. really didn't have any close folks they could count on. They had family, one or two actual close buddies, and then themselves. I'm beginning to notice that my interactions between people aren't just short "open-seduce-close" ones; sometimes I'm at a friend's place for a few hours or sometimes I'm at a bar and I feel completely fine holding the fort with the crew I'm with. In other words, sometimes I feel like the typical seduction ladder can be stretched across a few hours instead of a few minutes.

This is especially true in other environments like during the day at a mall. Sometimes I randomly hook into a bunch of friends unexpectedly and chill with them for some time. Why should I have to leave them when I "close" when I'm cool with being around them anyways?

How do you deal with it Seddit?