>>76737479
The pre-selection aura is real. My advice is to get back on the saddle as fast as possible after freshly becoming single, or you'll quickly lose the residual confidence you have remaining. At some point, I can't tell exactly when, probably a little past the one year mark, I crossed the "this guy is single as fuck" line, where you tangibly detect your invisibility to women.
When I enter new locations, I can see the spark of attraction, but it has to be fresh faces as a rule. Anyone at the workplace or if you're in a small town, even if you've never spoken but have seen each other before, will have placed in you in some sexual hierarchy in her mind. This has created somewhat of a misanthropic worldview for me, as I know that if I were to get into the relationship stride again, all these women would sniff out said preselection, hit the switch, start smiling at you and twirling hair, etc... As you said, it's a damned if you do, damned if you dont scenario, since women particularly flirted with me the hardest when I was fiercely loyal and sincerely disinterested in cheating.
I will always be fascinated by "aura", "magnetism", whatever you want to call it. I swear it's metaphysical, as I know fuckers who went on multi year dryspells, then had multiple exes hit them up within the same week they had a successful date, one of them from as much as a decade ago. Women can sense through space and time across thousands of kilometers if you're looking at a bagina