<therapist> Do you have a sofa?<p><me> no. honestly, I'm lucky I have a mattress :( [here I start crying as I try to figure out where to begin in telling the story of the saga that led to my failure to buy a sofa while I re-live the trauma of buying the mattress]
> Client: I want him to prove he is interested in me by persisting despite my giving him the cold shoulder.<p>Don't let reddit get a hold of this.
Pessimistic take -- it's entirely possible the woman in this story doesn't really want a realistic and happy relationship. Perhaps she's subconsciously choosing serial monogamy with attractive players because of her own attitudes of what an ideal man looks like.<p>Maybe that's too harsh. Or maybe once a person talked to her there would be dozens of more layers and tests and games involved.