lilithu said:
Speaking as a woman, it's a two way street. I'm sure it hurts men to be rejected by women. But it also hurts women to be rejected by men. I'm sorry to sound cruel K, but it almost sounds like you think this woman should not reject you (ie - should enter into a relationship with you) out of compassion. What about a little compassion for her? It is a difficult situation to be in to be the object of affection when you don't feel the same way. You don't want to hurt the person, but you also want to protect yourself. Since you've been on both ends, surely you can empathize.
And speaking as a woman, there is always the added baggage that you're usually physically weaker than the man, and hence feel more vulnerable when being advanced upon. How many guys actually feel threatened when a woman is agressive? Unless she's Glen Close, I would imagine that you'd feel more annoyed than threatened. For a woman it's unfortunately different. Even if the guy doesn't mean anything by it, she doesn't know that. She just wants to establish a safe space.
I don't know the details. Maybe she was unnecessarily cruel the way she let you down, in which case I am truly sorry. But a lot of times women react adamantly because they feel like they need to protect themselves.
Just adding another 2 cents in...
Now recalling the times I've been rejected... What I found cruel, was that last time, the girl led me on by telling me things like "I had a crush on you in High School", and stuff along the lines of --when she woke up, the first thing on her mind was me--. When I told her that I like her, she's all of a sudden uninterested. I don't know what her motives were, but leading someone on like that can be cruel. Years before that, I remember some girl telling me that she never wanted to see me again, and she told her friends that I was psycho. She ended up betraying a close friend for some guy. She did some pretty shallow things to everyone around her.
Problems I'm having now does not have to do with relationships. My Co worker keeps on calling me stuff like "crack whore", and many other derogatory terms. She does things to aggrivate me intentionally. The worst thing I have ever done to her, was tell her to "shut up".
But one thing I have learned, and this is a quote that I came upon while browsing some website, is that "mean people expect people to be mean, and nice people expect people to be nice".
I've actually gotten more respect from mean women by being mean back. The odd thing is, is that women can get turned on by that sort of thing.
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