And there are also women who have read books that told them never to chase a man or initiate contact, so if you don't they won't even if they are interested.
Oh, my GAWD. I'm old enough to remember that stupid fukking book called The Rules. Every girl who was coming of age around those years (myself included) got that dumb-ass book. Girls walking around campus reading it until the pages fell out (not me, I'm proud to say), playing those bullshyt games on middle school/high school/college dudes who probably didn't know WHAT the fukk was going on. Brehs, if you wonder why there's a dearth of women somewhere around 32-40 who are still wandering around manless, blame that book.
I don't remember most of it off the top of my head (obviously), but I do remember one of those gems was to never call a man and never let the a phone convo go on longer than 10 minutes. I was thinking that if a dude kept chasing after me to keep getting hung up on, something wasn't right. The tag was to get a man who was crazy about you...nah, boss. That nikka is just plain crazy.
(The funny part? At least one of those authors got divorced, if not both.)