The Trick To Ignoring a Guy to Get His Attention (2 of 3)

Communication Patterns

If you have a pattern of frequent and fun communication, please don’t do the whole “playing hard to get” thing because a guy doesn’t reply for a few hours. Give him space. Pretend he doesn’t exist for as long as it takes for him to reach out to you. If your communication had always been good up to this point, he absolutely will reach out to you. And if he doesn’t, do you really want to be spending time on that? The one thing you really can’t miss when trying to build or maintain a relationship with someone is some level of communication, so if that’s not happening, maybe the relationship isn’t either.

Commitment Levels

How committed are you to this? If you’re just in the early stages of dating, for the love of God, back off. Even people in long-term relationships deserve to have a few days of not having to explain themselves every once in a while, so definitely don’t expect someone that has literally no official commitment to you to make time to explain their actions. It might happen, but it probably won’t and you shouldn’t need it to. Also important here is making sure that your commitment levels are on par. Maybe you think you’re already almost engaged and he’s still in the “early dating” phase. And as bad as that may sound, it’s usually not a big deal until you decide to not talk about it and turn it into one.