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To start with, my current stats (dating back to my arrival in Lviv in mid-August of 2025):

Approaches: 307

Telegram: 24

IG: 67

SMS: 1

LinkedIn: 1

i-Dates: 1

1st Dates (includes 1 tinder date): 12

2nd Dates: 6

3rd Dates: 3

And there was one girl who I had a total of 8 dates with.

So all together, I had 27 dates.

Bouncebacks: 3 (Includes one girl who I had back twice)

Kiss close: 1

Lays: 0

Analysis

I also started tracking an additional statistic on October 15, which was the number of girls who stopped to have a conversation. Of the 121 approaches I’ve done since then, 65 (~54%) stopped to have a conversation. Of the 65 who stopped, 36 (~55%) gave contact details. So roughly half the girls I approach stop to talk, and of those half give their contact details, and of those 5 (~14%) came out on first dates. So this tells me I need to approach about 24 girls to get a date.

I actually don’t think my stats are “bad” ratio wise, it’s just I’m not getting laid. I should also note that I’m not stat padding. In fact, Brooding Sea told me I should downward adjust the quality of women I approach on average just to get more reps on dates and reference experiences. I’ve come to two major realizations over the last 4-5 months since being in Lviv:

1. I NEED TO ESCALATE
2. Focus first on getting laid with a girl, THEN focus on potentially making her my girlfriend

As I’ve discussed at length with Brooding Sea, escalation is clearly the leak in my funnel. I’ve had some very, very hot girls on dates. Like at least 5 to 6 girls who are the epitomie of younger, hotter, tighter, absolutely sizzling hot girls in their late teens and early 20s. I have to remind myself that they wouldn’t be coming out on these dates if I didn’t clear their lower threshhold for fuckability, so there’s that silver lining.

One of my persistent insecurities is that I’m too old (36) to be doing this shit with women in the prime age cohort, and while yes, I do get age rejections, there’s still ample opportunity. I just need to act URGENTLY with CONSISTENCY. My goal has been to do 5 sets a day, but I know I’ve fallen significantly short of that goal. Sometimes the streets provide that volume, sometimes they don’t and sometimes I just weasel (way more often than I should) and don’t take the opportunities the street gives. In particular, I struggle to approach when I’m not “doing daygame” in a pre-scheduled session.

The fact is, I know it’s possible to get laid with these girls in the prime age cohort or I wouldn’t have gotten as many dates as I have. The problem arises in the sense that I simply have done a shit job of escalating. I haven’t been nearly as bold or persistent with it as I need to be. These girls are not going to just fall over backwards in my bed with their legs in the air. I have to go and make it happen or it’s not going to happen at all.

To add to that, I need to adjust my macro strategy from “getting a hot white girlfriend” to first and foremost breaking my years-long dry spell and focus on getting laid. That is, after all, the basic point of even doing daygame. I’ve also come to the obvious realization that in many cases, it’s easier to have casual sex with a girl than it is to position yourself as her boyfriend because she has a longer checklist of needs and wants for a boyfriend than she has for a casual sex partner.

What’s more, I’ve found there’s just a sense of tension in the air and emotional distance prior to the sex happening, so my goal is to get that out of the way ASAP with a girl and then decide if she’s worth pursuing as girlfriend material AFTER that. And not to give away my commitment too easily by verbalizing to the girl first that I’m looking for a long term relationship. I’ve already lost a lead the hard way doing that.

Moving Foward

I decided to go home for the holidays and took a few days break in Mexico for some sunshine and good food on my way home. It was a much needed break from the cold and darkness of Lviv winter. I actually hate winter and felt a strong urge to go back to Dubai or somewhere in Asia for a few months and return to Lviv in the spring. However, after much thought and deliberation, I decided to go back to Lviv. I started with my end goal in mind (break dry spell with hot white girl who may or may not become my girlfriend), and thought ok, what best serves that goal? Sure, I’ll have to suffer through the winter weather and eletricity cuts, but sometimes sacrifices need to be made, and I simply don’t have the time to waste fucking around in some warm weather locale only to return to Lviv with zero momentum built in the spring.

Worried about “burning” Lviv

I still have the irrational fear that I’m going to “burn” Lviv and run out of hot girls to approach in the city. I know this is a crazy notion because girls come and go from the city all the time, the univeristy population turns over 50% per year, and the number of sets I’ve done thus far (307) is a drop in the bucket of what is likely to be the total statistical amount of hot girls in the prime age cohort (18-24) in a city of approximately 700k. Even if this does become a problem, which I doubt, I have to remind myself that worst case scenario I can always daygame in nearby third tier cities in western Ukraine such as Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivsti, Lutsk, Rivne, etc. Ukraine is lacking some things, but hot girls is not one of them, even during wartime. From a rational perspective, my bigger concern should be not being consistent enough with my approaching to keep my lead pipeline full.

Ukrainian Language Classes

I came to Lviv knowing only Russian after studying it for about 4 years and it’s definately better than not knowing Russian at all to communicate with girls who speak little to no English, which I’d estimate to be around 30-40% of the girls I approach. Still, they almost always reply in Ukrainian, and so I’ve been meeting with a Ukrainian tutor about 3 times a week for 3 months. I’ve fallen off the schedule a bit with my recent travel, but I’m still studying on my own at least an hour everyday, focusing mainly on expanding my vocabulary as fast as possible. Anki has been especially good for this. I’m also planning to take an online intensive Ukrainian language course offered through one of the univerisities here that lasts about 4 months, meeting twice a week for 4 hours. I just want to get competent speaking this language as fast as possible.

Noteworthy Girls

I won’t go into detail on every date I had since I last posted, but there’s a few things I want to highlight:

I-date that almost resulted in SDL with hot 20 year old.

This was a surreal experience that occurred about 2 months ago. I met the girl early on a Sunday afternoon near the Opera House. She had a nice plump ass in black yoga pants, a tight waist and pretty face. Easily an 8. Right before I was about to approach, some girl doing street interviews stopped me to ask my opinion on different pictures showing various levels of women’s lip filler and which I preferred. This almost caused me to lose track of the girl, because in the ~1-2 minutes that took, I coudn’t see where she was. I just picked what I thought was her most likely direction of travel, turned the corner and lo and behold I was able to track her down.

What really surprised me was that SHE suggested the i-date, not me. That tells me I need to get better at spotting these opportunities. Well, I took her up on the offer and we had a coffe off the main square. I then took her for a walk in the park next to Ivan Franko university and sat with her on a park bench, which was a mistake because it’s very difficult to escalate in a public park or create a seductive atmosphere in this setting.

To my credit, I recognized the energy flagging and bounced her to my go-to bar, whose second floor has a nice couch with a good degree of privacy. Of note, I commented on how nice her ass looked and she told me to tell her something different because guys comment on her ass all the time (it was obviously her most sexy feature, impossible not to notice and she knew it based on the way she dressed). This was a good learning experience for me going forward not to make the same comments that all the other guys are likely to make.

At the bar, she ordered a whiskey, good sign. I don’t drink, so I ordered a non-alocholic wine, which she gave me some shit about. The bartender, who has seen me bring multiple girls to this venue, also made a side comment alluding to this when he brought us our drinks. I made a mental note of it and have since tried to build more rapport with him by chatting with him in the bar before my dates so he won’t cockblock me. This venue is by far my favorite date venue in the city.

On the couch, this girl was curled up next to me with her head on my shoulder. It very much felt like game-on. Honestly, I can’t remember if I took her to dinner at an Italian restaurant before or after the bar (this was 2 months ago already), but we had dinner at the Italian restaurant, and I tried to rush through that part as fast as possible because it wasn’t really conducive to seduction. At the restaurant, I was sitting at a right angle to her, and I would reach my hand under the table to feel her legs, which she playfully admonished me for, claiming I had “long arms.” This girl spoke no English so I was speaking mostly Russian while she spoke Ukrainian.

I invited her back to mine, which she refused. Brooding Sea told me not to do this because the answer is always no. Instead, the optimal strategy is just to say let’s go, and then start leading her back to your place. If she asks where you’re going, say “it’s a surprise.” If she presses for an answer, then tell her we are just going to mine for 30 minutes to have some tea and then I’ll get her a taxi home. One of my key weaknesses is that I’ve been trying to get girls home without “warming the engine” first through escalation. Getting a girl back home who you haven’t escalated is like trying to jump start a cold car.

Well this girl eventually agreed to going back to mine, with the plausible deniability that she was just “going to use the bathroom.” The thing was, I wasn’t expecting any company, this encounter resulting from an early afternoon i-date, so my place was dirty, including my bathroom. While I was cleaning my bathroom, she was waiting in my apartment outside the bathroom door. This took me longer than it should have (about 10 minutes), and then she used the bathroom. When she came out, I suggested watching a movie, which she declined.

With the benefit of hindsight and having analyzed what happened with Brooding Sea, I realize I should have 1. kept my apartment clean and smelling good (I later noticed she had cracked a window in my apartment while she was waiting) and 2. assumed she was going to stay by moving straight away to put the kettle on and asking her which tea she wanted rather than asking her to watch a movie, which all girls know is code for fucking.

I also made the mistake of assuming that I would see this girl again and would be able to get her out again. Wrong, wrong, wrong. First off, she was just visiting Lviv and as I’ve come to realize, the i-date bubble pops fast once the girl leaves your presence. She responded to some of my subsequent texts for about a day, but then fell off within about 36 hours afterwards and I was not able to get her out again. Nonetheless, it was a great reference experience not only for what’s possible, but what’s possible for me.

I can’t stress enough that this girl was the epitome of younger, hotter, tighter and sex was definately on the table the same day I met her. During the first part of the i-date at the cafe, I specifically remember thinking this girl is just interested in having a social chat, no way is she actually thinking about getting fucked. But in retrospect, I KNOW it was a possibility had I handled it better, especially once back at the apartment.

Banana Girl (girl I had 8 dates with):

Looking back at my previous posts, I see where I wrote this girl off a few times before. As of now, with the dust settled, I had 8 dates in total with her, even getting her back to my apartment a second time with another back massage and this time massaing her ass and having a make-out with tongue. I had a boner almost instantaneously when we were making out. Hot young women can have that effect on you.

The problem is that she was just a massive pain in the ass to deal with, especially over text, and I eventually decided to simply cut my losses. I probably could have eked a few more dates with her, but I honestly don’t think it was ever going to end in sex. She was a virgin (so she claims), and looking back, I think it probably just wasn’t in the cards for me to fuck her presenting myself as a boyfriend option, given the large age gap.

Going forward, for girls in the late teens, early 20s age range, I think my best chance of getting laid is setting an R select adventure sex frame. That’s not to say I’m ruling out the K strategy, especially for virgin girls, but I absolutely have to keep my pipeline full so I don’t come across as desparate and keep leads at varying stages of development. With this girl, I took my foot off the gas with approaching because I was worried she would see me in-set. Yes, this was paranoid, but not entirely unfounded as I did run into her twice by happenstance over the course of a few months. Still, I just have to do the approaches regardless of that risk because the alternative of a dry pipeline (and dry dick) is worse.

Last 3 Dates In December

Most recently, I had three dates in three days in the first part of December. The first date was with a girl who honestly could have passed for a leftist American career woman if I hadn’t known better. Our date went badly, which in large part was due to me being willing to discuss politics with her and that quickly soured the vibe. I didn’t text her after the date, and frankly, I don’t think she wanted to hear from me either.

The other was a second date with a 30 year old IT worker who I talked to for almost 3 hours (too long, in retrospect) over drinks (again, ordering a non-alcoholic “jack and coke” while she had a cocktail). The conversation flowed easily, and I think she was DTF depsite having sent me a text after the first date saying she was not interested in anything romantic.

As usual, look at what she does (come on date with man she barely knows to have drinks one on one) vs what she says. I didn’t invite her home, mainly because I lost the desire to fuck her when she took her coat off and I was able to see for the first time all the tattoos she had, almost a tattoo sleeve on one arm. Since then, I’ve decided I’m still going to pursue this lead becaue I think she is still interested (she texted me while I was back home in the US for the holidays). I just had to get clear on what I wanted from her, which at this point is just casual sex, not a relationship. I suppose I’m the same way as the girls are in the sense that I have a shorter list of requirements for a girlfriend than I have for a casual sex partner.

Lastly, I went on two dates with a mid 20s dance instructor girl. The mid 20s age range is probably my most realistic target demographic for getting a girlfriend at this stage in my life. With that in mind, I made my desire for a relationship overt to this girl, which was a mistake in hindsight. The second date was us going for dinner and a movie, and I told her my intentions while we waited in the theater lobby for the movie to start. It seemed like she agreed in the moment, but looking back, I think that was just her being conflict avoidant and I’m certain I lowered my perceived value in her eyes by being so willing to give up my commitment.

It reminds me of the cat string theory – the cat is fixated by the string as long as you keep dancing it in front of the cat’s field of view. It only loses interest once you drop the sting in front of it. It seemed to be the same way with the prospect of a committed relationship with this girl.

During the movie, I tried to escalate by reaching across the arm divider in the movie to caress her hand, which she took (actually, I’m not sure how she could have rejected this short of saying don’t do it), but it felt awkward. After the date, she said she had a good time over text, but a few days later when I invited her out again, she said we couldn’t meet again. She didn’t give a reason, and I didn’t ask because I thought I already knew and she was unlikely to give me the truth regardless.

Also, even before she said we couldn’t meet again, I was already losing some enthusiasm for her being my girlfriend because she has short hair. After some reflection, I’ve created a list of must-have qualities in a girlfriend, and one of them is long hair (others include no kids, never married, white, little to no tattoos, no smoking and not fat).

Street Approach and Date Game

I recorded some of my street approaches and dates for Brooding Sea, and he provided feedback on what he heard. Suffice it to say, there is major room for improvement in many areas, but the most urgent, and what I think is the lowest hanging fruit, is improving my escalation.

Conclusion

There were other noteworthy happenings (e.g. model girl returning to Dubai that agreed to meet the night before she left before flaking and a set that screamed SDL opportunity based on the sexual tension in set that I didn’t act on), but I think this covers the major highlights.

So where do I go from here? The easy answer would be to fuck off to a place like Dubai or Vietnam for the winter and focus on business before returning to Lviv in the spring. But damnit, getting laid with one of these girls and getting a hot white girlfriend is something I NEED, not something I want. If that means I have to live in darkness and cold, perhaps without electricity, when I could be in warmth and sun, than so be it. My desire for sex and a relationship has never been greater than it is now, especially now that I’ve almost tipped the chalice to my lips.

With that in mind, I’ll be back in Lviv by mid-January, and I just have to do whatever it takes, which means I need to get back in the saddle, commit myself to being consistent, continue to analyze what I’m doing and adjust accordingly. The results will come, I know they will.

Buckeye Daygame

January 5, 2026

To start with my stats since I last posted on October 12:

Approaches: 63

Conversations: 34 (started tracking on October 15)

Telegram Close: 11

IG Close: 11

1st Dates: 3

Looking at the data, my approach to date ratio is actually fairly decent at about 1 in 20. And the fact is, I left a lot of meat on the bone in terms of missed opportunities for dates. With that said, I consider it a vanity metric on some level because it’s not what really counts.

First, I wanted to discuss some macro level observations and lessons learned since October 12:

• I need to be more bold with escalation. Frankly, I’m sick and tired of going on platonic first dates to nowhere. They simply don’t interest me. To reduce this occurence, I’m trying to take to heart BroodingSea’s advice to NOT use coffee dates as the default date option. But rather only as a backup and make an evening date in a seductive, alcoholic venue the go-to option. BroodingSea made the apt observation that these midday coffee dates primarily serve as a screening mechanism for the girl and offer little in terms of actually advancing the interaction toward intimacy.
• Windows of opportunity. I’ve really been reflecting on what exactly this phrase means to me in a daygame context and why it’s so important. I think it goes to the crux of women’s behavioral pscyhology – that is, their emotional states of trust, intrigue and attraction. When their emotions are such that they are open to a sexual encounter, I’ve learned that I MUST act on it. I cannot assume that there will be a “next time.” Women’s emotions can change on a dime, and what they feel today may be totally different from what they feel tomorrow or even an hour from now. Unlike men, who if they want to fuck a woman, that is still going to be the case tomorrow, next week, next month and probably even next year, barring unforeseen circumstances.
• Maintaining lead acquisition is absolutely imperative. I simply cannot rest on my ass with existing leads given how quickly I churn through them for one reason or another. The only way to combat this is to go out on a consistent basis to do daygame. My goal has, and continues to be, 2 hour daily sessions with a minimum of 5 sets per session. I want to be “consistently good” rather than “occasionally great” when it comes to my daygame sessions.

1st Date with Girl Leaving for Germany:

I was almost tempted not to include this as a date in my stats because I walked out of it within a few minutes. This was a girl who was leaving for Germany in a few days, so I knew I had to make something happen on our first meet. The first sign of trouble was that she was unable to read a map well enough to find her way to the date venue. I sent her the Google link to the bar and yet she got confused, going to one of the “sponsored” search result venues that showed up at the top of the page in the Google link I sent to her.

Once I corrected that misunderstanding, she was still unable to find the venue and simply wound up at a random restaurant where she ordered a meal. Thinking it would be better to lose the battle and win the war, I decided not to try pushing for her to come to my venue and, after wandering around for awhile trying to figure out where she was, I eventually found her location.

Given the circumstances up to this point, BroodingSea said I should just redline the date and skip rapport. Although I remembered her being attractive during the set, when I saw her again in person, something had changed. Apparently she had went for a cosmetic operation on her face that day, and she was wearing the post-operation effects of the procedure, which resulted in some weird skin side effects on her face. This, combined with her shitty behavior up to this point and my lingering suspicion she was a scammer trying to lure me to a restaurant that would charge an astronomical bill, led me to stay for just a few minutes before I “went to take a call” and did not come back.

1st Date with 18 year old Chef Girl:

This girl is quite the character, although I have to admit I’m not that physically attracted to her. She admitted she doesn’t like to dress feminine, which is a big turn-off for me because that’s one of the major reasons why I like Ukrainian women, they are comfortable expressing their feminity.

When I approached her, she was wearing tights and leather shorts, which piqued my interest. The set was fairly unremarkable, but she texted me first with a video of her out drinking with friends. I’ve noticed that when a girl texts first after the initial meet, my odds of getting her on a date signicantly increase. This strengthens my theory that daygame is really a numbers game where I am filtering for yes girls, and the skill element primarily comes into play in terms of 1. recognizing opporunities and 2. not fucking up the opportunities that are presented to me.

She is definately a texter and we had a lot of back and forth texting before I met her last Sunday for a first date around 9pm. She works long hours as a cook at some restaurant in Lviv from 8am-9pm for 5-6 days at a time. She told me she ordered coffee to-go for us because the cafe was closing. I told her to come to mine so we could drink it on the balcony but she declined. On the date, we went for a night walk before sitting on a park bench. I put my arm around her and she was comfortable with it. I probably could have easily kissed her but as I mentioned, I simply wasn’t that physically attracted to her, despite her youth.

The night ended as I said goodbye to her outside my apartment, and she gave me a little keychain trinket as a gift. Again, I could have probably easily invited her inside my apartment at this point, but I chose not to because I was tired and simply didn’t want it that badly with her.

With that said, I’ve been talking with her since over text and invited her out again tonight after her work ended but she declined. I think it’s 50/50 whether I ever see her again. To be honest, I do not feel particularly strongly about it one way or the other.

1st Date with 19 Year Old International Relations Student

I really like this girl a lot. For one, she has beautiful breasts that only become apparent when she removed her winter coat on our date. That, combined with her youth and feminine demeanor, makes me really attracted to her. With that said, as with the 18 year old cook, she speaks no English and will only speak Ukrainian despite understanding Russian. This resulted in me speaking Russian to her while she replied in Ukrainian, which puts a bit of a strain on the conversation because my Ukrainian is still very basic.

The main mistake I made with this date was inviting her for a 3pm coffee date to start. This goes back to the macro level observations I noted earlier. Specifically, that I need to make my default date venue an alcoholic venue in the evening. We mostly made platonic small talk during the date, and I debated inviting her back to mine at the end of the date but chose not to because the vibe during the date was platonic, and it would seem incongruent to invite her back given those circumstances.

Having discussed the date with BroodingSea since then, I’ve learned that the best play in that situation would have actually been to invite her to a second venue, this time a seductive bar, and then tried to extract home from there.

I’ve since invited this girl out again for a second date, but she went home for about 4 days. I’ve been in comms with her during that time, with the goal of getting her to send me pictures of her hometown. Time will tell if I am able to get her out again and how it develops.

Missed Opportunities:

• Unfortunately, I had two major missed opporunities, either one of which could have ended my dry spell. First, was with a girl who was leaving in a few days for “modeling” in Dubai. As soon as I told that to BroodingSea, he concluded that she is probably a whore. In all likelihood, he is correct. With that said, I still wanted to fuck her as she was very hot. We texted a little after we met and she agreed to meet. She texted me around 10pm to ask what the plan was for the date, and I stupidly waited until almost noon the next day to reply. In retrospect, I should have texted back that night to keep the momentum going/embers burning.
  
  When I did reply back the next day, she didn’t respond, and the time of the date came and went. I contacted BroodingSea to determine what to do, and he recommended I give her a call with the goal of getting her out that night. She didn’t answer the call, but she did respond to the text message I sent right after to ask where we would be meeting. In my mind, I thought “Wow! This is great, so the date is still on,” and I rushed home from my coworking office to get ready for the date. Not 30 minutes later, she changed her mind, and I was unable to get her out. Again, this was a missed opportunity that could have been had if I practiced better lead management, followed up the same night of her question and planned the date better.
• The other major missed opportunity came just yesterday with a 29 year old girl from Luhansk. This was probably the most sexually charged daygame set I’ve ever had in my life. The sexual tension was crackling from the get-go of the set. We were standing extremely close, staring into each other’s eyes, and in retrospect, it was an excellent opportunity for an i-date with the goal of going for the SDL. Instead, I stupidly suggested we meet the next night, which she agreed to and then flaked the next day after she had time to sleep on it. Again, this was a major mistake on my part not to act on the sexually charged set in the moment, or at the least arrange to meet later that same night. Another lesson learned via the school of hard knocks.

Update on Banana Girl

This is the girl with whom I had 5 dates that started to go south when she asked to see my passport to confirm my age. I invited her out again after a week roll-off and she said she would let me know. On the day of the tentative date, she texted me to say she couldn’t make it because she had to the gym. A lame excuse indeed, and I am considering it a dead lead. In retrospect, I still think I should have taken my dick out when I had her on my bed giving me a massage, although BroodingSea thinks this would not have resulted in much due to her friend also being at my place at the time.

Dabbling in Tinder

I also restarted my Tinder account and was chatting with several very hot girls, one is an 18 year old in Lviv and the other is a 24 year old bimbo in Ivano-Frankivsk who has about 250k followers on TikTok doing nothing but posting videos of her dancing in revealing clothing. The 18 year old has ignored my multiple date requests despite engaing in lenghty text conversations with me, and I have a feeling she is probably a timewaster. Likewise for the Ivano-Frankivsk girl who asked me a lot of questions about the logistics for our proposed date before telling me she would let me know when she’s free. I don’t have high hopes for either girl, but I think Tinder could be useful as a supplement to daygame here. I don’t want to put my primary focus in it, but if it nets me 1-2 extra dates a month, I think it could be a worthwhile investment. Time will tell.

Hot Journalism Student

There was no date resulting from this set, but I have to mention it just because of how incredibly hot this girl was. She was simply sex on legs. 18 years old and had one of the most delightful looking pair of breasts I’ve ever seen in my life. I couldn’t help but steal glances at her cleavage as we spoke. Her breasts looked just wonderful, and I would have loved to have gotten my hands on them. I’m still picturing them in my mind as I type this. The set itself actually went fairly well, despite some awkwardness at the beginning when I told her I was “on my way back to my apartment,” and she misunderstood that as me inviting her back to my apartment in the moment. At the end of the set, she said she had a boyfriend, which I probed to discover that it was a new relationship. As a result, I pushed for the contact details, but she held firm in her refusal. She was simply too hot not to press for the close, and I am not surprised that she was snapped up off the market that quick having just started university in Lviv a few months ago. She is in the top 1% of the world’s hottest women easily.

Going forward

I know that I will eventually be rewarded with sex and a relationship if I just keeping pressing forward and don’t quit. I feel like I am learning at breakneck speed, and I’ve had a lot of opportunities to make something happen, most of which have been squandered by my rookie mistakes. I’m going to keep my activity levels up and continue to learn from my mistakes. I simply have no other option.

Buckeye Daygame

November 1, 2025

It’s been almost five weeks since my last post and so much has happened.

To start off, here are my stats since September 7th:

Approaches: 89

IG exchange: 23

Telegram: 3

First Dates: 1

Second Dates: 0

Third Dates: 2

Fourth Date: 1

Fifth Date: 1

Some thoughts on strategy

My results have tapered off since the first few weeks I was here, in terms of my ratio of approaches to dates. It may just be things reverting back to the mean. Honestly, I’ve struggled to convert approaches into dates the last month or so, although I’ve had some noteworthy sets in that time, and a few leads who I may have been able to get out if I was willing to invest more time into them over text.

I’m still torn on whether I should aim for five approaches a day or try going for ten, knowing that I probably won’t hit that target. As it is, I struggle to get even five sets in. It’s not for a lack of hot girls but more so bad weather and approach anxiety. If I had to self-diagnose, I’d say my main issue with getting a better approach to date ratio is having more authentic interactions, rather than flat, process-based conversations that are rushing to a number.

However, with that said, my hypothesis is that the majority of girls will not be interested in me no matter what I say, a small minority will be interested no matter what I say and then a third group’s interest depends on my level of game. With this in mind, I can see the logic behind both a volume based spam approach type of game (“finding the yes girl”) as well as the low-volume sniper approach designed to convert the maybe girls.

For me, although I’ve been doing the low-volume sniper approach, I may try experimenting with the high volume approach again. My daygame level is simply still not that good, and I can’t count solely on converting maybe girls. I need to find the yes girls, and the best way to do that is with volume.

Third Date with the Dentistry Student

After our lackluster second date, I met the dentistry student a few weeks ago for a third date at a sushi restaurant on a night it was pouring down rain. In retrospect, I need to stop inviting girls to dinner dates because they are not conducive to seduction. This date was mostly friendly non-sexual conversation and when I tried to invite her back to my place near the end of the date, it felt incongruent with the vibe established during the date and not surprinsingly she turned the offer down.

I was getting coaching advice from BroodingSea during the date, and I was also probably being too obvious about looking down to check my phone to see what he said before looking back up to speak with my date, who was seated across the table. At one point she said “I’m afraid about what you’re going to say next” when I looked up at her after checking my phone.

At the very end of the date when we were parting ways, I told her to send me a text when she woke up the next morning and she simply asked “why?” It was at that moment I knew I would not see her again. I made a lot of mistakes with handling this lead, going back to not staying in contact with her while she was traveling and the accumulation of mistakes, including the badly planned invitation to mine, simply caught up with me and ended any chance I had of progressing things with her.

It’s a shame because I really did like this girl, and she ticked off most of my boxes for what I’m looking for in a girlfriend: young, hot, beautiful long hair, well educated, physically active (former volleyball player), and ambitious. Frankly, a girl like that in the U.S. never would have given me the time of day, no less three dates. Regardless of how it turned out, it was a good reference and learning experience.

Five Dates to Nowhere with 18 Year Old

To speak plainly, this girl absolutely played me like a fiddle. But to be honest, I got what I deserved for not having been upfront with her about my age. I said I was 26 when I was actually 36 in the initial text exchange after we met, and nearly a month later, this is what ultimately led to my undoing with her.

She was absolutely smoking hot. The definiton of younger, hotter, tighter. Virgin. Stunningly beautiful long silky smooth brunette hair. Perfect body. Incredible makeup. The total package visually. And she was into me! Or so it seemed. We had five dates in total, with things peaking on the fourth date when she came (with a friend) to make dinner at my place.

After dinner, we looked at the view from my bedroom window and she sat on my bed with me and gave me a massage. It felt surreal having this happen with a girl that I’m literally twice her age. After the massage, she cuddled up next to me on the couch, with her friend sitting on the far end, and rested her head on my shoulder with my arm around her, my hand dangling just barely over her boob, brushing it occassionally. I honestly regret not having tried harder to feel her perfect ass because you never know when you will have another opportunity to do so with these types of girls.

Being that physically close to her on the couch and on my bed was simply intoxicating. I put my hand under her chin to tilt her head toward me for a kiss, but she rebuffed the attempt, saying she only kissed if she was in a relationship. At one point, she invited me to the bathroom with her to help her clean a spot on her yoga pants, and I was dabbing the spot while checking out her perfect ass. She took a picture of us both in my bathroom mirror.

It’s actually difficult for me to be in my apartment as I type this and look over at my kitchen sink, remembering her perfect ass accentuated by her yoga pants as she stood at the sink washing dishes after we had dinner. On her way out the door, she put on lip gloss and kissed me on the cheek and again when she left my building, leaving a lipstick imprint on my cheek. I took a picture of it after she left for the memory.

So how did it all go to shit so quickly? The trouble first started brewing as we were cuddled on the couch and she asked to see my passport to verify that I was actually 26. When she asked, I felt a jolt of panic and pretended to go look for my passport while I actually went to the bathroom and texted BroodingSea for advice on what to do.

He told me to tell her it was in my office, which seemed to satisfy her curiousity for the moment because the date went back to normal right after that. However, the peace was not meant to last. The next day, after we agreed to the day of our next meeting, she texted saying she still wanted to see my passport, and I told her I would show it in-person on our next meeting. That next meeting was our fifth date, and she did not take the reveal well.

She was clearly pissed about discovering my real age and also started to give me shit about other girls that I was following and that were following me on IG. I stupidly tried to reassure her by saying she was the only girl I was seeing, which probably drove her away more because girls, especially at her young age, like to know a man has options. I was also bracing for her to say something like I was too old or was her dad’s age, but those comments didn’t come (not that she wasn’t thinking it).

Outwardly and from what she did say, she seemed to be more upset that I wasn’t upfront about my age more so than the age difference itself. With that said, I’m assuming she probably would have age rejected me off the bat had I told her my real age to begin with. Maybe that would have been a better outcome than spending almost a month of emotional energy and time pursuing this girl only to have it blow up in my face. I need to think about how to handle answering that question with girls going forward.

One final note regarding this girl is that it turns out she was seeing another guy when she “went home to see her parents” each weekend, even though she was giving me shit about other girls following me on IG. In her last text to me, she complained about me not giving her gifts like flowers, which came less than twentry-four hours after she posted a video on IG of herself with a huge boquet of white roses, which I’m assuming came from the “other man” she was seeing on her “trips home.” Such is life.

Sounds like neither one of us was being honest with the other. I don’t know if this is the right takeaway, but going forward, I am going to be very reluctant to put all my eggs in one basket with one girl by stopping or lowering my approach volume. I will also think twice about devoting so much mental energy to deciding what to text a girl. I simply have better ways to spend my mental energy and time. I think the ideal approach is to have as many options as possible and let the cream rise to the top. You can’t force a relationship, especially not with girls this young.

24 Year Old Smoker

A quick update on this girl, who I had a third date with on September 5 (how time flies, it feels like it was just yesterday). She went back to her hometown for a weeks and we fell out of touch, another mistake on my part. When she returned, we had a couple of brief text conversations before I invited her out for a fourth date, which she gave a very tepid and excuse-riddled response to.

Frankly, I just didn’t want her badly enough to push for the meeting. If she didn’t smoke and had a better attitude, it may have been a different story because she was a beautiful woman. However, as it stood, I was turned off both by her smoking and her entitled attitude, even explicitly telling me she was attracted to only two things, intelligence and money. Certainly, I’m sure nearly every woman is attracted to money but they have enough class to not openly say it, which this girl seemed to lack. She was also attracted to money without having any apparent ambition, accomplishments or work ethic. Not a desirable combination.

Met new friends

I’m happy to say I met two new friends. One of whom is another daygamer I approached in Forum Lviv, who introduced me to another foreigner who is living here. I’ve met both on several occassions, and we get along quite well. It feels so good to have other people to talk to who aren’t my parents, clients or employees.

Moving Forward

Since my goal is still a relationship with a hot white woman, I think I will be focusing on that more with mid 20s girls, than on 18-21 year olds, who I think are more open and better suited for casual encounters. I truly do feel a sense of urgency because BroodingSea told me that by the age of about 42, your chances of a real relationship with a hot young woman of childbearing age drops to something around 1%.

The only issue is that I think Lviv is mostly a university city, and it’s been somewhat challening to find girls in their mid 20s here. Maybe I will move to Kyiv when the war is over. Time will tell. I just need to be consistent with my approaches, even and especially when I don’t feel like doing them, as is often the case when the weather is starting to turn cold and it’s raining almot everyday.

I am also concerned by the downturn in my approach to date ratio, which again I think is attributable to a lack of authenticity in my sets and rushing for the number. I need to work on this.

I already know what happens when I quit and leave for “greener pastures” elsewhere – it’s a major reason why I’ve had so little daygame success over the past 6 years and a temptation that I need to resist. Insanity is indeed the definition of doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. I can’t say for a fact that sticking it out here will change things results wise, but I already know that leaving is not going to work so I might as well try something different by committing to staying.

Buckeye Daygame

October 12, 2025

Another eventful week in Lviv. Highlights from the past week:

• A third date with the 24 year old Ukrainian girl I met in my first week here
• A second date with an extremely beautiful dentistry student I met about 1.5 weeks ago
• Almost securing another date with a different 18 year old
• A first date with a real estate agent in Lviv

Since I arrived in Lviv on August 17, 2025, my stats are as follows:

Approaches: 91

Telegram: 3

LinkedIn: 1

SMS: 1

IG: 23

1st Dates: 5

2nd Dates: 2

3rd Dates: 1

I think my stats are actually pretty good, and I have been on some dates with very hot women but still have yet to break my dry spell. Personally, I think it’s just a matter of time.

Russian continues to be a useful asset here, but I am also about to start Ukrainian language tutoring. If I’m going to live in Ukraine, I think it makes sense to do that. My goal is to reach level A2/B1 within a year.

The school year is officially underway now in Lviv since September 1st. I live near the Ivan Franko university, and it was simply amazing to see the influx of beautiful young women flooding what was previously an empty campus. I am not using hyperbole when I say you could easily cast a Victoria’s Secret lingerie fashion show multiple times over just casually walking around this campus on any given school day. There’s that many hot chicks. It simply puts U.S. universities to shame in that department. If my own univeristy had had this many hot chicks, I don’t think I would have gotten any work done.

With that said, I’ve been approaching sparingly on the campus because I don’t want to get a reputation as “that guy” among the university population. What I’ve discovered is that despite the plethora of hot young women, most of them are inapproachable because they are either A. rushing to class and/or B. with a group of friends. It reminds me of frozen bank account assets. Yes, technically they exist but you can’t accss them. I’m currently experimenting with approaching girls as class lets out and they exit the campus area on one of the side streets. I think this could be a viable strategy, but I need more test data.

Third Date with 24 Year Old Ukrainian

Regarding the dates I had this week, my third date with the 24 year old Ukrainian who asked me to guess if her tits were real or fake on the second date went quite well. We had dinner at my favorite restaurant in Lviv followed by a walk around the city center and back to her apartment.

I tried to bounce her home but she rebuffed the attempt. I think she is attracted to me, and this is all part of the courtship dance. She is going home to her town for a few weeks to visit her father who is on military leave, so I will try to maintain light comms with her while she is gone with the goal of going on a fourth date when she gets back.

Currently, she is my strongest lead, and we get along quite well. The one thing I don’t like about her is that she smokes, but otherwise she is quite hot, and I would be happy to make her a travel partner, if not a girlfriend (in the latter case, I would probably try to get her to quit smoking).

Second Date with Hot Dentistry Student

My second date with the dentistry student unfortunately did not go as well. Quite simply, I was too outcome dependent on how the date was going to go and whether she liked me or not. She is very hot, definately my hottest lead, and the epitome of younger, hotter, tighter. She is a hot piece of ass to say the least.

We met at a nice cafe in the city center for a delicious dessert and coffee followed by a walk around the city at night (one of the favorite passtimes of Ukrainian women in Lviv seems to be walking dates, which I don’t mind at all). She was dressed in an elegant black cocktail dress and had impeccable makeup, including glitter makeup on her tanned skin, such as her upper chest and perfectly toned arms, that really made me want to take her to bed on the spot.

To be honest, I was intimidated by her hotness and was afraid to fuck things up. Of course, that resulted in a stilted conversation. To make matters worse, I made a clumsy attempt to kiss her near the end of the date, to which she replied “I don’t want.” It simply wasn’t the right time or place to attempt such a move, and I’ve since learned from BroodingSea that I shouldn’t be escalating or running the dates in general using a process based mindset, but instead guide my actions based on the girl’s emotional states of trust, intrigue and attraction. As he stated, lack of timing is anathema to seduction.

We also walked around her campus at night, where unfortunately the street lamps were not turned on, so everything was pitch black. At one point, she said I look like Jason Statham and showed me a picture. It’s still hard to wrap my head around the idea that a young beautiful woman is sexually attracted to me as a 36 year old man. BroodingSea mentioned this is tied to a lack of worthiness in my mind, and I think he is right. It’s an inner game weakness that I need to work on. Hopefully, that will become easier as I accumulate more reference experiences.

The second date with this girl just didn’t go as well as the first, and she ended the date about 2 hours in, and 5 minutes after my clumsy kiss attempt. Afterwards, I just assumed it was a dead lead, but she responded enthusiastically to my text the next day, which was a Friday. As a result, I went for another date invite on Sunday to go for a walk through a famous park in Lviv. However, she responded about 7 hours later to say that she was going to another city, so I think this lead is probably going to die out from lack of momentum, but we’ll see. I won’t write it off just yet but I’m not optimistic about it either. Such is daygame.

First Date with Lviv Real Estate Agent

Today I also went on a first date with a mid 20s real estate agent in Lviv. She is attractive for sure, but unfortunately she is a step or so behind some of the other girls I’ve been on dates with, especially the dentistry student. She passes my attraction threshhold, but I’m just not sure if the juice is worth the squeeze because I think it would take quite a few dates with her before anything happens.

We had a 90 minute date of mostly trust building rapport conversation. I took BroodingSea’s advice of reducing the length of my dates from 3+ hours down to 1-2 hours. Essentially, I viewed this date as a “marking time” date and seeded the second date of going for a walk prior to the end of the first date. I am still deciding whether to follow through with this lead or not.

Other Notable Events

Another notable event was an 18 year old I approached in the mall. She was a hot blonde with an ample busom, and the set went quite well. I could definately sense there was attraction from her end. Unfortunately, the attraction seems to have worn off once we parted ways. She asked me over text how old I was, and it was all downhill from there. I told her 28, even though I am 36, because I did not want to be age rejected. After some back and forth texting, which included videos of my parent’s puppy, I invited her out for drinks. She reluctantly agreed to a day but then ghosted me once I replied back the next day with the time and place.

I also had my harshest rejection since I’ve been here, which actually wasn’t that bad. I approached a girl wearing some jean shorts that barely covered the bottom of her ass cheeks and she must have sensed that I was following her before I approached because as soon as I said, “excuse me, do you speak english?” she whirled around and held up her phone screensaver for me to see a picture of herself with her boyfriend (a good looking guy I might add) and to tell me that she has a boyfriend. On the bright side, this means I’m getting my point across that I am sexually interested in the girls before I even give a compliment.

She is certainly within her rights to be curt, but I do find it incongruent to be wearing “come hither” jean shorts that barely cover the bottom of her ass cheeks and then show indignation when she receives male attention. It would be like me wearing assless chaps to a gay club and getting upset when gay men hit on me.

Recently, I haven’t been doing as many sets, and I really need to get on top of that. I’ve learned time and again the lead funnel quickly dries up when you stop pouring slop (e.g. approaches) into the top. There is too much hot ass here to not be getting some for myself.

Buckeye Daygame

September 7, 2025

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.

Buckeye Daygame

August 31, 2025

Since my last post, I’ve traveled from the US to Lviv via Krakow and started to get settled in here. The pro’s and con’s of Lviv so far:

Pro’s:

• Hot girls. A LOT of them. There are a ton of hot girls here from all over Ukraine. Some of the most beautiful women I’ve seen in my life. Much hotter than Polish women in my opinion.
• The male competition here is not as high as in other European countries.
• There are almost zero foreigners here.
• Super affordable and high standard of living.
• The city has a cool atmosphere.

Con’s:

• Obviously the fact there is war going on. Last night for example, I was woken up by an air raid alarm at 4am and could hear the sound of incoming drones and machine gun fire to take them down. I also just found out today that there aren’t really any shelters that are open past 10pm in Lviv.

Honestly, that’s the only con I can think of. It is unsettling to hear explosions at 4am but the pro’s make up for it in my opinion. Using ChatGPT, I determined I have about a .002% chance of dieing here from a Russian strike *knock on wood*. Not to say that can’t happen, but the way I look at it, I don’t stop driving in the US just beause people die in car accidents. You still have to live your life.

But coming into the country, I was very paranoid after being exposed to years of American media coverage of the war. I thought as soon as our bus (full of women, children, elderly men, and myself – a 36 year old male) crossed the border into Ukraine, it would be targeted by a Russian missile. But mostly life continues as normal here from what I’ve been able to tell so far. People just go out about their lives here as best they can given the circumstances, and that’s what I’m trying to do as well.

Another notable event so far was getting stopped on my way back from the grocery store after dark by an unmarked van with mobilization officers in it trying to round up draft dodging Ukrainians. The van came to a screeching halt behind me out of nowhere and the back door flew open. For a second, I thought they were going to throw me in the back, but as soon as I started speaking, they just said “USA USA” and drove off.

Using Krakow (where I lived for ~3 months last year) as a point of reference, in my opinon Lviv is superior in every way, except for the war. It has hotter (and nicer) girls, less annoying foreign tourists, better value for money and the city is not as depressing as Krakow.

Ok now on the daygame. I’ve been trying to do at least 5 sets a day. So far here are my stats since I arrived in Lviv on August 17:

Approaches: 16

Number close: 2

IG close: 4

Dates: 1

With just these stats alone, I’ve already done better in Lviv in a few days than I did in ~3 months in Krakow because the date was with a hotter girl than the 2 girls I dated in Krakow. This girl was 24 years old, had long, beautiful black hair and was from a small Ukrainian town but visited Lviv periodically. She was living here by herself.

The set went very well, I actually didn’t approach her when I first saw her because she dipped into a store. But by happenstance, I passed her again after she came out and took that as a sign to open her. I’ve been trying to pay attention to BroodingSea’s Trust-Intrigue-Attraction model in my sets, which is easier said than done when I’m still experiencing approach anxiety. But in this case, I could feel the girl’s intrigue growing when I described my business back in the US.

She was easy to get out on a date, but she showed up about 15 minutes late. We met at the Lviv opera house, and while I was waiting I couldn’t help but be amazed by the quantity of hot, sexy women flaunting their bodies in the warm summer air. It truly felt like a paradise for foreign men in that regard. I’m still thinking about this tall, tanned beauty that I badly wanted to approach but I didn’t because I thought my date was going to show up on time and I didn’t want to be seen approaching another girl when she did.

When my date arrived, she was wearing a tight top displaying her slender body and small but pert breasts. She looked damn good in my opinon, especially compared to American women. I suspect it may take some time to lose the “US goggles” and get accustomed to seeing this many beautiful women around.

During the date, we sat outside a cafe having coffee before going for a walk around the city. This was my first date in over 9 months since I left Krakow and went back to the US. With that said, the conversation came easy, and I thought the date went reasonably well. My main issue was being comfortable with pauses and more importantly, escalating. It simply didn’t feel like the right time or place (middle of the afternoon, walking around the city) to escalate her. I feel awkward escalating white women, especially when I feel they are higher SMV than me. Looking back a few days later, I probably should have tried escalating on the date and bounced her back to my place instead of betting that I would see her again. She said she had plans in a few hours with a friend so I didn’t go for the home bounce. Plus, I hadn’t done much to escalate so the buying temperature didn’t feel right.

Going forward, I’m going to make it a goal to try to bounce the girl back to my place on the first date. You simply can’t count on being able to get them out again. I also just listened to BroodingSea’s podcast on the way he runs his dates with a one venue model and I’ll be trying that for my next date.

Since my date with the 24 year old Ukrainian, she replied to my texts and we had plans to meet the next day for dinner but she flaked at the last minute and the lead has gone cold now. Back to getting more leads.

This may just be me being paranoid, but when I considered her an active lead, I didn’t do any approaches for fear that she would see me, even though Lviv has ~750k inhabitants. It’s a weird hangup I have about “burning” Lviv. I need to just put in my daily sets and not worry about double opening girls. Using Lviv as my base, I’m also planning to visit second tier Ukrainian cities for 3-day daygame blitzs like Ivano-Frankisk, Rivne, Lutsk, etc to see other places and what they have to offer.

I’m also pleasantly suprised that my Russian, which I spent 4 years learning, has been quite useful here communicating with women, especially with those who relocated to Lviv from other parts of Ukraine. I was starting to learn Ukrainian, but now I think it’s simply too low ROI of a task to bother with. Russian is enough as far as communicating with women via daygame goes. Still, I start every set asking “Do you *pause* speak English?” and only use Russian if she says a firm “No” or clearly doesn’t understand what I’m saying once I start speaking English.

I know I still have a lot of work to do on honing my daygame skills – I still topic jump a lot, have trouble coming up with creative openers, have difficulty bridging from the opener to an actual conversation, paying attention to non-verbals, etc. I had one girl today who I added on Telegram after a pleasant exchange, but then about 30 minutes later, she blocked me. It stung a little, but I got over it fairly quick. I’ve also noticed that quite a few of the women are pleasant in set and will easily reach hook point or give contact details, but then go cold afterwards. Not sure yet why that is. Maybe I’m reaching social hook point but not sexual hook point. I plan to try more of the “Do you have a boyfriend?” filtering question to see where I stand when in doubt during the set.

For now, I’m pleased that I’m getting back out in the field and taking action to achieve my goal of getting a hot white girlfriend. Even though I’m still working with a small sample size, I’m starting to feel more comfortable talking to women on the street again.

Buckeye Daygame

August 21, 2025

It’s been over 6 years since I last got laid with an attractive woman, that would be July 2019, not that I remember. Since then I’ve had one lay around 2022 with a Thai 5 from Tinder in Bangkok. Something needs to change. I used to have a great sex life, all from daygame until my priorities changed toward business. But the fact is, I’m getting older now (mid-30s) and I feel it. I feel the window is closing on my chance on to find an attractive young girlfriend who I can make my wife. Daygame is the only thing that has ever given me a reliable sex life, and I studied it voraciously in my mid to late 20s and have done 3 residentials over the years with the some of the biggest daygame coaches in the industry (Krauser, Jabba, and BroodingSea). However, in the last 5 years, I’ve been half-assing it and getting half-assed results (that is, nothing). In that way, daygame is like anything else in life.

I’ve made the decision mentally to make a change. I have to make a change. I have no choice but to do it. It’s either that, or die a sexless existence and let my bloodline die out. Still, I feel a sense of hope. I know the daygame skillset is within my mental capability. I’m at a crossroads in life and now is the time to act. I simply don’t have the time to sit idly on my ass any longer or waste time on low ROI activities.

Over the last 2 weeks, I’ve started to go deep into studying daygame again. It feels exciting to know what is possible. I’ve lived it, it’s just been so long. Those memories of that time are still vivid in my mind, and I feel so much nostalgia for it. I’m not ready to throw in the towel yet to accept a life of sexlessness in middle age and no prospect of having a family. I don’t want to be in my 40s chatting up hot young women on the street, although I respect the guys that can do it successfully, few as they are. I have 3 years and 10 months until my 40th birthday as of the time of this writing. I WILL have a hot white girlfriend and wife within that time. That is a promise I am making to myself. I know the road ahead is going to be difficult. I’ve already turned back more than I’d like to admit over the last few years trying to get back into daygame. That stops now.

Next week I am moving to western Ukraine to start a new life there. Yes, I know there is a war going on there. I spent 4 years learning Russian thinking I was going to live in Russia and have a Russian wife. That was before the war. Now it simply isn’t a realistic possibility, so I have to pivot. Ukraine it is. I’ve been to Poland 3 times and the country just isn’t for me. I plan to base myself in Lviv and travel to cities in western Ukraine every few weeks, similar to the “second city methodology” espoused by BroodingSea. We’ll see how it goes. I will chart my journey and daygame activity on this blog over the next year.

Buckeye Daygame

August 10, 2025