{"id":349,"date":"2010-01-14T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T03:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:24:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:24:12","slug":"q-a-with-carlos-scarcity-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/2010\/01\/q-a-with-carlos-scarcity-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Q &#038; A with Carlos : Scarcity thinking.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QUESTION<\/strong>: Scarcity thinking &#8211; even if she&#8217;s a cool chick &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am writing to you now because I am in a bit of a post-relationship situation that I&#8217;m not sure how to handle.<\/p>\n<p>I dated a girl for just over a month. She ended our relationship a little less than a week ago due to the fact that over our winter break from college, she was stressed out with working 2 jobs (she just moved into a new apartment) and wanted to focus on school for a few weeks. The words she used were &#8220;I think we should take a break,&#8221; and then she went into the aforementioned work\/school ordeal. I completely understand, and then she told me that &#8220;it&#8217;s not permanent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little less than a week later, I still want to be with this girl. I&#8217;m not in love with her or anything, I&#8217;m just bummed out that we couldn&#8217;t continue this journey &#8212; I think this girl is awesome, and we have a lot in common, but at the same time I&#8217;m kind of confused as to how she feels about me, but don&#8217;t know how, or if, I should approach her about it for fear of ruining our friendship.<\/p>\n<p>And sure I&#8217;ve learned from you that I shouldn&#8217;t let a girl have that kind of impact on me, but this is a girl that I love listening to her speak, and taking everything in. I want to make her feel the way she makes me feel, and that is being constantly on my tip-toes, and very excited.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any advice for me and my situation? Anything would be appreciated, and I thank you for taking the time to read this e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>-N<br \/>\n______________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARLOS&#8217; ADVICE<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to be the one to break this to you, big guy, but she&#8217;s not attracted to you anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing here, though, is not how SHE feels about you. You can never truly &#8220;control&#8221; that. You can influence it (by using my strategies), but no one can ever <strong>CONTROL<\/strong> anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is how <strong>YOU<\/strong> feel in    this situation. It&#8217;s about how well you manage your own emotions. It&#8217;s how    you make yourself feel when you run into this situation that makes the difference    between confidence, or sinking self-esteem.<\/p>\n<p>I need to point out that you ended your email    with a variation on the King Loser Line of all time:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Yeah, I know BUT&#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The translation to what you&#8217;re saying is: You know I&#8217;m right, but you&#8217;d rather    follow your <strong>undisciplined emotions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I know how this situation feels. I&#8217;m not bashing    you here because I&#8217;ve been there plenty of times myself. It seems so cool    when you meet a chick that you feel like you have potential with, right? You    want to keep that good feeling going.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that you are holding    onto good feelings as if they&#8217;re rare, and you&#8217;ll only experience it with    <em><strong>this girl<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is <strong>scarcity thinking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me, you are in college. This is where you should be <strong>experiencing      as many women as you can.<\/strong> There&#8217;s no rush! You&#8217;ve got a good 60 more years of      <strong>dating and attraction<\/strong> to look forward to. (If you learn this stuff right,    of course.)<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that <strong>you have already lost her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s just going to walk away from someone she&#8217;s into?    <strong>NO WAY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one who has something they value  will let it go <strong>voluntarily<\/strong>.    Least of all a woman in a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a few minutes. Go ahead. Go watch some American Idol    and ponder this. I&#8217;ll be waiting here.<\/p>\n<p>You back?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now think about it: <em>Would you give up a woman that you were really    into?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NO! <\/strong>I know this because you&#8217;re <strong>not giving her up<\/strong> right now!<\/p>\n<p>No one (except a disciplined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaconfidence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alpha      Man<\/strong><\/a>) would be able to walk away from someone    or something they find fun and enjoyable and attractive.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s breaking up with you and this is her &#8220;nice&#8221; way      of giving you a chance to be a man and walk away with dignity. You should      take the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what you do:<\/strong> Tell her you&#8217;re not really interested in seeing just    one person right now. You appreciated what you had together, but you want    to see what else there is to experience. If it&#8217;s meant to be&#8230; you&#8217;ll be    back together.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to <strong>stop calling her.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can bet you any amount of money that she&#8217;ll be calling you in a couple    weeks, especially if she sees you with other women. And chances are you won&#8217;t    want to be with her if you find a few <strong>QUALITY<\/strong> candidates as you move on.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re now faced with a choice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One road leads to <strong>dignity, self-preservation, and establishing your own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaconfidence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alpha    Man self-confidence<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other road leads to a wussified existence as you <strong>circle      the drain<\/strong> trying    to win back a woman that is already not attracted to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>Which will you choose?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can teach you the path to choosing better. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphaconfidence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">You      can learn the advanced strategies to attracting women right HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dated a girl for just over a month. She ended our relationship a little less than a week ago due to the fact that over our winter break from college, she was stressed out with working 2 jobs (she just moved into a new apartment) and wanted to focus on school for a few weeks. The words she used were &#8220;I think we should take a break,&#8221; and then she went into the aforementioned work\/school ordeal. I completely understand, and then she told me that &#8220;it&#8217;s not permanent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A little less than a week later, I still want to be with this girl. I&#8217;m not in love with her or anything, I&#8217;m just bummed out that we couldn&#8217;t continue this journey &#8212; I think this girl is awesome, and we have a lot in common, but at the same time I&#8217;m kind of confused as to how she feels about me, but don&#8217;t know how, or if, I should approach her about it for fear of ruining our <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47],"tags":[32,50,14],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa","category-silver-members","tag-dating-advice","tag-dating-recommendations-silver-dating-tips-access","tag-dating-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}