>>33302322 (OP)If all you’ve seen is cocky guys getting girls, or smooth talkers, or manipulators, or normie young couples who seemed to click effortlessly, you get tunnel vision and feel like your nature doesn’t fit into any of those molds.
Which leads to a kind of quiet despair:
"I want love, I want her, I want touch but I don’t know how to be like those guys and that means I can't get any of it."
You don’t need to become a pursuer in the stereotypical sense. You just need to learn how to signal, how to invite, respond, suggest, and risk a little without feeling like you’re violating some deep taboo.
>Entitlement to try/socialized permission to act on desire in the limerence literatureThe honest answer is you just need reps and practice. Whatever type of guy you are, if you're not disgusting, there's game that works for you, and you just need to talk to girls over and over to find out what it is