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Girl Is Getting Too Attached To Me

• David Tian Ph.D. explains the problem with pick-up artists when it comes to relationships.

• David Tian Ph.D. asks men to stop picking up girls for their ego.

• In this Man Up episode, David Tian Ph.D. reveals the really jerk move some men do in these type of situations.

David Tian: Boom! Stop! This is Man Up, episode 46 and I’m going to be talking about how to break up with a girl who’s too attached to you.

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Masculinity for the Intelligent Man. I am David Tian, Ph.D., and this is: Man Up!

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Hey, man. I’m David Tian, Ph.D. and this is Man Up, episode 46. I’ve got a question from Anthony here. He’s basically asking: How do I breakup with this girl without hurting her too badly? The context here is they were dating for about three months. She wants to get serious, he doesn’t. He wants to break up with her without it getting too weird. Already, he’s saying, she’s causing a lot of drama. She ignores him for a week then just starts pummeling his phone with text messages saying, “How could you do this to me? I miss you. Meet up.” And then she comes late at night, crying, everything. So, I get that.

So the whole problem needs to be avoided. Right now, you’re in damage control. Not just because it’s the third month. And so you think you’re a little bit in damage control, like you wish you could take back the last two weeks. No, no. You’re in serious damage control. You really messed it up. Most pick-up artists, they don’t know this. The background is – this is from a pick-up artist context. The problem with a pick-up artist is when it comes to relationships – pick-up artist don’t know how to do relationships.

One of the things is a lot of the times they’re just picking up girls for their ego. So they feel like men. So they can be proud of themselves as men. One of the bad byproducts of this is they get into relationships with lots of girls because if they’re successful at picking-up chicks then they’ll be seeing two or three or more women at the same time, more than one night. They might see them multiple occasions. And now you’re in a kind of relationship because once you see a girl for multiple occasions, you’re in a relationship of some kind. Depending on how you set the expectations.

And the standard operating procedure for these pick-up artists is tacit approval. In other words, if she doesn’t ask you, you don’t say anything. If she doesn’t ask you to define the relationship, you don’t define the relationship for her. And this is tacit, so it’s silent, silent approval. So she’s approving of you seeing other girls as long as you don’t talk about it. That’s the view. Just so the girls who are watching this know that’s the view of players and pick-up artists. They just assume that if you don’t confront them about it, that you’re cool with it. Because I’ve noticed that this is a massive miscommunication between women and men even in the modern world.

Now, a lot of more women are acting like men in that sense, more masculine, of seeing lots of guys. And if the guy that they’re seeing doesn’t ask, “Are you seeing other guys?” She assumes that he’s okay with it. Most people are, at the first two, three, four weeks in. The assumption there is two, three weeks in but then a month in, the average person will start to feel attachments.

And it has to be clear from the beginning because if you start, Anthony, dealing with it when she starts pushing back, it’s already too late. When you get the pushback and you haven’t already addressed it, it’s too late. And what does this all stem from? It stems from dishonesty or – maybe that’s too strong of a term – inauthenticity. Before you even have sex, before you get far into flirting – just right at the beginning. Like in the first five hours of meeting each other.

The first five hours of conversation between you, the first date, you should be clear about what you’re looking for. For whatever reasons you have – maybe you’re just still enjoying your singlehood, maybe you just finished college and want to explore the city you’ve moved to or whatever – you’re not ready to settle down, have a family or for whatever reasons that you have. And you have to be honest about it, that this is why you’re not a good candidate for – at this moment – for a relationship. So she needs to know that from the beginning. Not three months in when you sit down and have the talk with her – it’s too late. That’s like amateur hour to do that.

Now you’re in damage control, what can you do? It’s always the best policy to be honest and that’s the best thing you can do. You sit her down – if you haven’t done it already – you admit to your fucking mistakes. I know a lot of guys don’t like to admit that, their mistakes. They don’t like to say sorry. It’s bullshit.

That’s a really jerk move not to say sorry for the things that you messed up on. You messed up for not making her expectations clear. For not being mature enough to know what it is that you’re looking for, and to prepare them and to have the courage to lose her at the very beginning. Because it’s her free will and her decision, her free right, to not get into that relationship with you knowing that further down the road this is what’s in store for her. And you have to tell her – unless you’re a coward.

You have to admit. “I’m sorry. It was my lack of courage in telling you this upfront, right from the beginning. And I deserve all of the hatred that you’ll be throwing at me.” You tell her everything that you told me in these emails that you are feeling, about your guilt in complicity in her scenario, all right? So you put it out there. The thing is that she has to know, all right? She knows and then you’ve got to be ruthless in breaking it off.

In the sense of when she phones you at 4 a.m., drunk and crying and stuff, you have to be strong. If she comes to your door, hug her, take her back home. And if she’s phoning you, phoning you – do not pick up. If she’s texting you, reply 24 hours later or whatever. It’s got to be business now and you’ve got to be cold. You have to allow her to hate you. That’s the mature thing to do.

Because you already messed it up so that’s the best thing for her. For her to hate you is the best thing. Then she’ll get over it and at some point she’s going to learn from it. But at the moment if she likes you even a little bit, she’s going to keep coming back, like an addiction, to you. So be the better man. Be the bigger man and take it.

All right, so that’s Man Up: How to have a breakup with a girl who’s attached to you too much. I’m David Tian, Ph.D, in Singapore right now. Make sure that you join the Facebook group. Click the link here or up here, wherever that link is, and join the Facebook group. We approve join requests. It’s a private Facebook group. We approve those requests everyday. You can ask your questions for me there and get my answers directly from there. So join the Facebook group. Thank you very much. I’ll see you in the Facebook group, until then – man up.