Are You Mine?

Its never certain whether or not you can take the plunge and thumbtack a guy as your own.  After spending the evening watching "He's Just Not That Into You" I firmly suggest you get your ass to the theater and learn a lesson.  This movie was spot on with translation the inner-workings of a man's brain. And trust me we all need this feature more readily available to us. I myself often times struggle to interpret just what the opposite sex is throwing my way.  My recent transition period has left me in the tidal wave of interaction.  To be honest its really premature and very foreign. My typical understanding of when a guy behaves a certain way that is unfamiliar is to ignore the lifeblood out of him, delete his number, ignore his texts, emails etc and hope to God he assumes you dead.  Lately and now more so because it matters I find myself utilizing these tactics because I am insecure as to what I see. I am not sure if the color is orange or blue.....I am seeing things.

So here is the story.  We have a man who peaks our interest.  He does the dog and pony show; dinner, drinks, movie etc.  You don't like him at all and then he starts to call you almost hourly to see "what are you up to?"  The simple answer to this question could be contrived to be "not much since 5 minutes ago my darling.." but you kindly play into it because you put yourself in his shoes and would not like rejection .  However at the end of the day you look at your mobile call log and you realize that you took 2 of his calls, missed 3 and have 9 ignores.  What does this man want from you that is so detrimental to your iPhone battery?  Really?  I mean he had you for several dates and its pretty obvious that he is on the winning track and the BOOM he becomes the police calling every time you go outside your house arrest boundaries.  

When you finally start to notice the hairs on the floor in your bathroom you are losing at a jackrabbit's pace and come to understand that the reason why this is all happening is because this man is literally and figuratively stalking you.  Where is the fine line between the affection that you desire and the desire for a restraining order. I mean don't get me wrong this has yet to happen to me.....I am sincerely convinced this is all due to the fact that I tend to intimidate all men, nonetheless this is something that happens and its a concern.  So back to the hair on the floor and the dead battery you wonder just what its going to take before you have to put your foot down?  

So you give the guy a call for the first time in your life...ring...ring...ring.  No answer. The bastard who calls you all day long did not answer the phone.  Do you leave a message? No way. So you made the call with the utmost certainty that when he gets a hold of the phone wherever it might be (where might it be) he will call you straight away.  But he doesn't.....and for the whole entire day you are "WTFfing" this guy.  He called the crap out of you and now that you want to get a hold of him NADA!  A day goes by, two, four, six days 45 minutes and 3 seconds......NO CALLS!  Where the hell, what the hell, who the hell is this guy doing? He was all in your business less than a week ago and the minute you call this character he cannot have the decency to return your phone calls?  Why? What went wrong? Things were so great. He took me to dinner. He bought me drinks. He took me to the movies. Things were so great. Things were great, right?  Is it because he does not think he is good enough for me? Am I not good enough for him?  STOP! 

What has happened to you? You have become a hot mess.  You miss him?  The guy that called you 90+ times a day.  He annoyed the crap out of you....you could not get away from him fast enough and now he is being really mean? Why? BECAUSE HE IS NOT INTO YOU!  And here you were thinking the guy was your personal puppet. You took and took from him and then he was gone the minute you wanted to reciprocate (which let's be honest that is not what you had in mind but whatever. A complete 180 later the guy is not into you and there is no way he belongs to you.  See the minute you give a man a skoach of attention he takes off like a migratory bird in the winter. And you are left wondering what you did wrong when there is a key factor right in front of you. .......want to guess just what it was? You never liked him.  Not even a bit. You took pity on him. You were calling him to ask him to be less over-bearing and then he flipped a switch.

Conclusion. Men have the attention span of staple removers. They are on you for second and then the move right on to the next task.  Its not you its their genetic makeup that causes them to behave this way. And trust me they all do the same things the same way. The only thing that changes are the clothes and the cologne.  You do not want this man as your own. Don't forget that..  Its not you girl its him.  Don't let that bullshit game get in your head.   5 weeks from now 

when he remembers how great you were and calls you; you can hit the ignore button on your phone as you are cozying up in the arms of the dude you actually wanted to be with...he's a Celts fan anyway....old guy was down with the 76'ers....yuck!