>>16787645
Why don't you just skip the "gets lazy again" part, and try replacing it with another instance of "tries to talk to girl"?

>>16787761
Better to replace it with "improves self" first. Each rejection is something that can be learned from.

>>16787645
You havent imrpoved yourself if your happiness is reliant on random women who reject you.

You haven't improved yourself if you let rejection get in the way of improving yourself.

Work on step 1 more.

>>16787761
Because depression.
>>16787768
Except for when you get rejected almost immediately.

>>16787768

not necessarily. i mean if ur on the quest to become supreme alpha master of dating world maybe, but for most people being told someone isnt interested in you just means that person isnt interested in you. even if ur on the same level, you dont automatically match. its generally just the females job to decide if its a match

>>16787775
Well, there you go then. Work on overcoming that and try again.

I'm on the bad side of this cycle now. I took some time to really process objectively the things I did wrong, and the mistakes I repeated. It hurts but I guess I have to confront my self-esteem issues head on now. I've been pretending the problem doesn't exist this whole time. Talking to her knocked down my ego based on a cardboard foundation