About equal parts of my female acquaintances seem to be completely confident in themselves/don't compare themselves to others, while the other half shit talks.
I don't want to talk about it...
She thinks you won't take "no" for an answer.
The irony is I repeatedly fuck myself by failing to say "no" to my own superiors.
I just want things to work smoothly for once in my life.
This is why I said no to the butthead who was trying to pressure my husband to do some long hours car work for them when he wasn't available for it.
I'm cool with other women. They're fun to make out with.
People pleasing dies hard. Sometimes it's easier to say the 500 reasons I can't do the thing than to just say no, so I'm not the bad guy or evil bitch for saying no, I clearly have reasons.
Sounds like insecurity, which can happen to both sexes. Might be more present in women since we're more social than men, so we're more aware of the pecking order and where we stand.
Sometimes you might genuinely want to be friends with a guy you're not romantically interested in, like "yeah I like hanging out with you but I don't think we'd be compatible in a romantic/sexual relationship." As far as straight-up rejection or ghosting goes, there are two types: The "modern dater" who doesn't care and treats potential partners as meaningless and just ghosts out of nowhere based on nothing, and you shouldn't take those fickle people seriously (because they clearly don't take the situation seriously either,) OR, it's a normal woman who's scared of the repercussions of rejecting a guy who turns out to be a psycho. Men have stalked, stabbed, kidnapped and tortured, even killed women for rejecting them. The scariest ones, you can't even tell from the jump they're crazy, because they hide it so they can get someone invested.
Why do so many men want a 9/10 who can cook, clean, and has an ass so firm you could bounce a quarter off it but end up with a 5/10 who owns too many cats? Life happens.
"I want me a trad wife."