I have never had a girlfriend or had an active dating lifestyle with different women but I am still not going to stop meeting or talking to different girls. Just for the record I am a college student, I don't have a stable career yet and only work a part time job. I am involved in my school too (clubs/ROTC) I have big aspirations for myself and like a lot of students I work to achieve them. I have made out with girls and have had sex with 1 (I am no virgin) but I would prefer to casually date different women as well. The one thing that holds me up from showing a girl that I meet the best side of me is my fear of her playing me. I have dealt with teases more than I have with legit girls (teases are always the hotter ones and have always came from shitty break ups with their ex's) they just seem to want me "around" by saying things they want me to HEAR and playing along when I flirt with them. So I feel "ripped off" so to speak. Think about it, you're confident when you are talking to a girl, using kino escalation, looking into her eyes, flirting basically doing everything that an attractive man would do when he meets a woman and next thing you know she is just trying to play you either for your money/material/attention/time/her validation. So, despite the fact that I talk to girls, I always hold off out of fear that I will get played. No one really talks about the girls that are teases and how to effectively deal with them, but every now and then a man will run across such girls (I recently ran into my second a month ago)