Dating Tips & Tricks vs. Authenticity

Just ran into another quality article from Brandon over at Yintegrity - highly recommended food for thought:

Dating tips, games and tricks boil down to these things: being aloof, playing hard to get, acting like you have a life, not acting needy, demonstrating value.

Fact is this: these things work. They definitely work with many, many people. The second you throw out a lure of aloofness, most people will jump to bite it.

The deeper you go into these tips and tactics, the more you find they are filled to the brim with fear, weakness and manipulation. Tricks and games are for the weak and manipulative. This is essential to understand. Only out of weakness, fear and neediness can these tricks arise, and everyone is interested in teaching you the tricks! If you take a look to the right of this page, 1/2 of those sponsored links want you to use one trick or another. But using these tricks makes the very real situation as to why you would even consider using them bigger, but now there is a beautiful decor around it. This is an absolute irony.
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