How to Stop Getting Rejected by Women
Facing your fears will set you free and help you find love.
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One of the biggest challenges for men in dating is having to face rejection after rejection. The socially expected male role in dating is to take the initiative, and the socially expected female role is to respond with either acceptance or rejection.
He shows blatant interest first. He asks her out. He takes the risks. There are many reasons why our genders roles became this way, including the societal slut-shaming of women who show too much interest (darn that pesky patriarchy and its discouragement of women’s sexual agency).
This leads to women rejecting men a lot more than men rejecting women since there are inherently fewer opportunities for the latter to happen. And the rejections will invariably outnumber the acceptances, no matter who you are.
Those rejections take their toll. As I mention in Never Lonely: The Uncensored Guide on How to Attract and Be Loved by Women, the psychological pain from social rejection neurologically activates the same parts of the brain that light up when we experience physical pain. It hurts, it’s exhausting and, at times, it’s humiliating.
