I'll try to keep it as short as possible, and make it as easy to read as possible;

Current limitations;

  • Logistics (no car for I'm guessing around 6-9 months, passing exams now for license)
  • Location, UK, living next to a shitty city
  • Not on any dating apps

Now the question - how do I go about meeting more women in my life? The best way currently is through dancing, but even then you're looking at predominantly 30-40 year old women, and I'm 22 (yes yes MILFS, but the older ones are typically more 'established' in the community, and if things go sour, she could probably easily damage my rep and I really enjoy this hobby). I have met a few through this, actually got a few dates, make outs etc, but nothing beyond that.

My other problem is not being able to gauge how quickly to escalate - first few rejections taught me that I was too slow, the next one taught me that I was too quick (the girl was genuinely less of a typical modern day woman, a lot more traditional, but still got essentially rejected as she is very tempted to move back and didn't want to 'waste time' on a relationship that would have to end, which is probably half bullshit excuse and half reality, now that she's back she was somewhat interested again and engaging in conversations over text as well, then went on to leaving me on delivered for a week now lol), so the lesson learnt is that I was too quick here.

Another girl is, as one user told me before in a different post, a 'cock tease', where she will appear every few weeks for the hobby, be really flirty and needy over text, but then disappears - how should I handle her next time she does that (which will probably happen knowing her, this has happened at least 3-4 times) - should I be direct and if so how direct, and how quickly should I try to escalate?

Any advice? Maybe someone was in the same shoes as me and got out of this weird period of making progress but at the same time still not reaching the target?