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By turning it into a joke, you cause them to kind of go “ohhh I was going to open up, but I guess we’re still joking around here, whew, glad I didn’t say anything real, okay I’ll think up a joke answer” and you’re going backwards in terms of building a deep powerful “I’m so intrigued by this guy and the emotions he makes me feel” connection.

No biggie, I’m just pointing it out so you learn to recognize it in the future. There’s a point where you can slow up on the humor and transition into the comfort/rapport stuff…you can still dip back into the humor, but usually it’s AFTER you connect. So you all share your super deep fears and get into this amazing deep connection conversation bonding…then to lighten the mood in that awkward silence that follows after everyone’s opened up like that, THAT’S when you could go “…also I’m scared of skydiving into a pool of sharks and being eaten alive. Just figured I’d throw that one in there too. ;) ” and relieve all the deep tension and bring you all back to reality again, except now you’ve shared a lot and have a solid C2 connection.

Hope that makes sense!

“then she reveals the target’s fear, which is “moving on” from her first love or whatever.”

Socially akward girl lol

“I don’t dwell on it, I just spin it into something else”

Good lol The 5.5 is like a nerdy awkward friend you bring out for the first time who’s like “wow your dress is SHORT!!” to a girl you’re talking to and you’re like “ummm ya so anyway” and have to kind of work around his awkwardness lol

““you’re an aquarius….” The target just lights up — like ‘how did you know?!’ blah blah blah. Lucky guess.”