Week 2 in Lviv: Making Progess

Wow, a lot has happened since I last posted. My stats so far since I’ve been in Lviv (15 days):

Sets: 59

IG close: 15

Telegram: 1

Linkedin: 1 (this girl I met strangely insisted we exchange LinkedIn and then ghosted me on the platform after responding to my first message)

Date 1: 4

Date 2: 1

Some overall observations:

• The sheer density of hot women on display on a typical day in Lviv is just absolutely insane, especially compared to the US (and Krakow for that matter).
• Lviv is actually a very pleasant place to live as a westerner not only because of the abundance of hot women but also the beautiful architecture, low cost of living and great coffee culture.
• It actually feels pretty safe here despite the ongoing war *knock on wood*

Major developments include:

• Second date with the 24 year old Ukrainian girl I mentioned in my last post
• Date with an 18 year old
• Date with a Russian POW camp guard
• Date with a dentistry student and former volleyball player who has serious girlfriend potential

Second date with the 24 year old Ukrainian

I thought the 24 year old Ukrainian was a dead lead but actually we arranged to meet for a second date at a Shisha bar. I did not want to go there because I don’t smoke Shisha, but I decided to put my preferences to the side because I wanted to get laid. I ended up having around a 2 hour date on a Friday night with her in a Shisha lounge that was very conducive to seduction. The date went well enough but I failed to bring her home. When I invited her back she suggested I was only interested in sex.

To be honest, the more I got to know her, the more I can say that is true. For example, during the date she explicitly said she was attracted to only money and intelligence. Now, I’ve heard Ukrainian women (and Eastern European women in general) are more direct, but it was still offputting to hear that she basically saw me as an ATM. I also didn’t like the fact that she was so attracted to money but didn’t appear to have a job or actually work. And I just generally don’t like to be with women who are smokers, wether it be e-cigarettes, shisha, etc.

The highlight of the date came when she asked me to guess whether her tits were real or fake and undid her leather jacket so I could get a better look. I looked behind me to make sure no one was coming and told her I would need to feel them to make sure. As I reached to feel her tits, she swatted my hand away. So close and yet so far. I also tried to implement BroodingSea’s escalation tips, such as telling her I’m going to kiss her when I get back from the bathroom but I badly mishandled it. I have a bad habit of nervous laughing when I try to escalate because I am not comfortable with sexual tension and it stops the seduction in its tracks.

Date with the 18 year old

Wow, ok so this date felt really strange for me as a 36 year old man. On one hand, I was excited to go on the date and extremely turned on by this girl (her skin just had this suppleness to it that women lose as they age), but on the other it felt weird because I’m twice her age and at times, I felt like I was a chaperone or her father taking her out on a field trip. It’s almost hard for me to believe that an 18 year old girl could be sexually attracted to me. This is a limiting belief that I’m going to need to work on.

We met at 10pm at an Italian restaurant across the street from my Airbnb (a place which literally looks and feels like a palace for only $2,600 per month – another reason I love living in Lviv vs. say a place like Dubai where it would easily cost $10,000 per month). We both ordered soft drinks and proceeded to have a friendly but sexual tension-less roughly 30 minutes of rapport before the venue was closing. I then bounced her across the street to sit on some benches next to this statue in the middle of a round-about just outside my place.

We were seated very close but again I was having difficulty escalating. This was due to 1. other people being seated on benches nearby; 2. the date being just under an hour or so in length (I should have met her on another day when we had more time – there is a curfew starting at midnight in Ukraine) and 3. I am still clumsy with my escalation. At one point, I brushed her hair behind her ear and as I was doing it, I made a comment about her having elf ears. It was stupid and fell flat. Another needless comment to break the sexual tension.

She eventually said she was getting cold and had to go home, at which point the date ended. I didn’t bother trying to invite her back because I hadn’t really done much to escalate during the date and the timing didn’t feel right. We are still in text communication, so I will try to get her out again for a second date.

Date with the dentistry student and former volleyball player

At first, this looked like it was going to be a tough date because she turned down my first two venue suggestions that were bars. She then asked if she could suggest some places, and I decided ok why not and told her she could, even though it technically runs against coventional thinking to allow the woman to choose the venue. She suggested 4 restaurants, and I remembered BroodingSea said he only schedules restaurant meetings if he is formally dating someone. Nonetheless, at this point I just wanted to get the girl in front of me so I choose one of the venues that looked good.

Turns out, this restaurant had an amazing ambiance and superb food. Their speciality was a coal oven baked trout that was delicious. The bill for two people came out to only $26 USD! Only in Lviv. It was truly a magical evening. This girl had such a naturally beautiful face and toned body. I felt a very strong DNA tug toward her. And her makeup was impeccable. The truth is that I’m invisible to girls who look like this in the US, but here I have a real chance with them. This is a major reason I came to Lviv.

She spoke so-so English but was happy to converse in Russian with me, so our conversation consisted of a mix of English and Russian which actually worked pretty well. Google translate dates simply tire me, so it finally feels like my years of Russian study are paying off.

After dinner, we went on this night time walk throughout the city just enjoying each other’s company and being present in the moment. She is from Lviv and was giving me a tour of the major sites in the city and explaining what different buildings were. I didn’t want the night to end. I walked her back to her apartment close to midnight and told her I wanted to kiss her, but she said it was too early and we bid good night. She looked so beautful illuminated by the light outside her apartment in this quiet area of the Lviv outskirts.

Honestly, I would just stop daygaming right the fuck now if I knew I could make this girl my girlfriend. I’m catiously optimistic but also know that women’s emotional states change like the weather. One moment they like you and the next they won’t respond to your texts. Time will tell what happens here.

Date with Russian POW camp guard

This girl seemed like a really solid lead. She hugged me at the end of the daygame set, which I’ve never had happen before, and she pinged me a few days before the date to confirm that it was still on.

I knew communication was going to be an issue on the date because she spoke zero English and would not speak Russian even though she knew it. She only spoke Ukrainian while I was speaking to her in Russian. This meant that I couldn’t understand anything that she was saying, so we had to rely on Google translate a lot which quickly gets tiring.

We met in the basement seating area of a cafe near my apartment. I came to the date extremely horny because I had not masturbated in days, which is actually very difficult for me to do. On one hand, it lowers my approach anxiety and makes me more bold with escalation but it also means I can’t focus on work because I’m constantly thinking about sex.

About 20 minutes into the date, I moved around the table to sit next to her and she seemed comfortable with my physical proximity. The main reasons I moved around the table so early was because 1. I was extremely horny as mentioned previously and 2. I could tell the date was going to be a slog with just Google translate and so I wanted the physical proximity as motivation to keep going.

We were sat adjacent to each other, skin touching skin as our arms brushed against each other. I could literally feel the heat and horniness radiating off my body. At one point, she even mentioned I have high testosterone, which is very astute because I am on TRT, and the last time I had my bloodwork done a few weeks ago it was around 1,000 ng/dl. I certaintly was feeling its effects during that date.

I did just about everything in my (at this point still limited) escalation toolkit I could do. I commented on how soft her skin was, felt her hair, asked for a hand massage, and whispered in her ear that I wanted to kiss her. She started doing the hand massage and was actually pretty good at it before abruptly stopping to say she wasn’t comfortable doing it.

At about the 3 hour mark she said she needed to go. I need to get better at feeling when to end the date because the energy was starting to die at this point. We walked the 5 minutes back to my apartment, at which point I took the long shot of asking her inside to see the view from my balcony. She said “I believe you” when I mentioned I had a nice view while refusing to come inside. I knew it was probably futile to invite her back at this point, but I decided to go for it mainly because I was so horny.

As we were about to part ways, she told me that she thought I was mainly after one thing. And I replied “We are very forward in America.” She then said that I had a nice body and that she was sure I could find what I was looking for in Ukraine. At that was it. I’m not going to contact her again because I don’t want a relationship with her (she doesn’t speak English, I don’t speak Ukrainian, and she’s not willing to speak the one language, Russian, that we have in common) and I think she’s already put me in the “player” box that she is not interested in.

At this point, I’m just going to trust the process and keep aiming for my 5 sets a day. I’ve been close to hitting that each day but not quite reaching it, in large part due to approach anxiety. If I just do an approach each time I see a hot girl by herself I should be able to hit that number each day, even without setting dedicated time aside for daygame sessions.

I think my best lead right now is with the dentistry student, who I hope I can make my girlfriend. But again I know how fickle women can be so I’m not pinning my hopes on that and will keep approaching.

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