I want a relationship but I’m not gonna chase a chick especially after I’ve smashed a couple times.
Yeah exactly what I was thinking. Part of the downside of seeing one woman at a time. Which is my M.O.
Lots of things could be happening on her end. Old flame came in the picture, new guy got her attention, work, school, family... Unless you're an established figure in her life, you don't necessarily warrant the effort it takes to communicate. Sometimes even a just a text is "too much".
However,
1) If you're coming at her on the serious tip from jump - chicks will future project and get cold feet. It's not always, "I can do better", It's often, "is this guy the right fit?"
2) Additionally a good or bad smash session (s) can truly muddy the waters.
Chicks will use bad male logic as well. If he was so serious about me, why did we hook up so "early"? Why didn't he want to wait?
Even if she initiated/made it easy.
Even if she would have went radio silent if you *didn't* smash.
So she might not be "ready" even though she said she was.
That said your style of being direct with a chick about your intentions and only dating one chick, puts you in a tough position.
The relationship paradoxically comes when you least need it.
The player side of the game is basically to always make the chick you want invest in you, else wise you leave her for someone that she can't compete with. She has to feel like she won you over. Pulled you out of the game. That in short you really value her.
If you're down to marry her in 6 months, and she knows that in the first few interactions, where was the challenge?
Being a "Steady Eddie" is such a break from the typical chick's experience with dudes she likes. Everyone likes to "ease" into something naturally, "take it slow". At least that's the mindset.
That's just rarely the reality, in my experience. It's never two sober minded intentional people that consciously and deliberately blend their lives together.
More common is that you meet, and unconsciously both sides want to spend more time together, and put aside other stuff to do so. It's anything but a linear buildup.
You gotta ask yourself, what do you think should happen? You go on one or three dates and suddenly you're texting throughout the day, and all of your time is spoken for?
What type of behavior is going to meet your criteria?
Just some thoughts. And to make it ironic, you can't outthink these broads. They're operating in a different dimension regardless of what the logical thing is.