Am I being too intense for her?
January 15, 2025
It's awesome that you don't want to scare her away,
that you want her to be comfortable.

I think it's probably good that you're wondering if maybe your intensity could be too much for her.
A lot of times, men's attraction for a woman can be a lot for her.

Again, like we talked about earlier, men tend to warm up a lot more quickly in some areas than women do,
particularly when it comes to sexuality and physical affection.
A lot of guys are there a lot quicker than women.

If you have strong feelings,
if you're feeling really good about it,
and it's really important to you that you don't scare her off:

Just check in with her.
Tell her that you're into her.
Tell her that you have the feelings that you do, and that you don't want to push her.
A lot of times, women will feel pressured by men, even if men don't mean to be.
Women will just sort of naturally feel that.

Go ahead and make it clear that that's not your intention.
Make it clear that you don't want to go any faster than she's comfortable with.

When you put it that way, when you say:
"What I want is for you to feel comfortable,"
that takes a huge burden off of her plate.

She can feel much more relaxed about the whole process.
You can tell her that, too.
You can request that she tell you where she is with things:

"Are things moving too fast?"
"Would you like to be a little more comfortable?"
Particularly if you say, as a man:
"Look, I'm into you. There's no rush here.
I'd like for this to play out in a really comfortable way for both of us.
So I want you to let me know how you're feeling."

When we invite her to give that input, that's really gonna put her at ease.
For her to know that we've even thought about that and cared about it to start —
that's really gonna win us a lot of brownie points.

And paradoxically, she might actually start moving faster as a result because she's feeling more safe.
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