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27 WAYS
To Get Out of the
Friend Zone
By Marc Summers of MajorLeagueDating.com
Hi I’m Marc Summers
I’m the founder and owner of MajorLeagueDating.com and I’m here to help you have more success in your life with women
and dating.
At one point in my life, I was in your shoes, messing up constantly with the women I wanted, and feeling hopeless about my
future dating life.
BUT things turned around when I finally started learning things that actually work, noticing patterns of female behavior, and
figuring out a lot through experience.
Everything you’ll learn throughout our friendship ACTUALLY WORKS because it’s the exact stuff I use to have the dating
life most men can only imagine.
Being in the Friend Zone Obviously Means
You’ve Messed up BIG TIME
Your dreams of being with her die along with her desire to be with you when you PUT
YOURSELF in the friend zone.
We've all been in the friend zone at one point in our life and I'm sure if you're reading this,
you're probably there right now and trying to figure out how you can escape.
The friend zone is where guys who don't know how to attract women go to die and this is the
last place you want to be because you're going to have to do some serious work to get out of
it.
In the friend zone, she's feeling absolutely no attraction for you and she's thinking of you only
as a friend and NOTHING MORE.
This sucks but I know where you're at and how you're feeling about it.
I used to live in the friend zone quite a bit before I learned what I was doing wrong and how to
get out and stay out of it.
To Get Out of the Friend Zone, You Must
Change Your Thinking and Behavior - You
Can't Talk Your Way Out of It
Trying to talk your way out of the friend zone, attempting to convince her of what a great guy
you are, why you're better than that "jerk" she likes, and what a big mistake she's making by
not seeing how "good" of a guy you are is something that won't work and won't get you
anywhere closer to dating her.
The phrase "actions speak louder than words" comes into play big time when you're trapped
in the friend zone because your ACTIONS are what put you in the friend zone in the first
place.
You much change your behavior and actions to get out of it.
Only your actions will change her mind - not your words.
You also can't try changing HER because that will push you even deeper into friend zone
where it's no man's land.
Your behavior got you into the mess your in and only your behavior will get out of it.
She Put You In the Friend Zone Because
You're BEING Unattractive - Not Because
You ARE Unattractive
When she finds you physically unattractive, you can still cause her to be insanely attracted to
you through your behavior and actions.
And on the other side of the coin, she can think you're physically attractive and your behavior
can cause her to lose attraction for you.
Your looks aren't the reason you're in the friend zone - it's your behavior.
Trying Harder Instead of Doing Something
Different Will Keep You In the Friend Zone
If what you're doing isn't working, don't try harder - throw it out and try something different.
Something you may have never done before.
Something that doesn't make as much logical sense to you right now, but works 10 times
better than anything else you've been doing - like complimenting her, giving her money, and
begging her to be your girlfriend.
Don't work harder - work smarter.
Here's 27 things that "friend zone guys" seem to have in common (behaviorally speaking) and
how you can change it so you aren't doing this "friend zone guy" stuff.
These 27 things are "different" and "smarter" things you can start doing immediately to
change your situation, change the way she sees you, change how she FEELS about you, and
change her mind about what kind of "friend" she sees you as.
1. Accept That You're In the Friend Zone -
Don't Lie To Yourself
It's easy to lie to yourself about being in the friend zone and say, "I'll show her. She just can't
see it yet. When the time is right, she'll know what a great guy I am and she'll want to be with
me forever."
Don't kid yourself.
She's not going to magically change her mind about you because of one little thing you say or
do.
It's all much deeper than that.
So the first step to crawling out of that hell hole, aka the friend zone, is to just accept that
you're in it.
Accept the reality of the situation.
Accept that YOUR ACTIONS put you there.
Accept that you won't EVER escape the friend zone unless you change your thinking,
actions, and habits.
Accept that, for one reason or another, she doesn't want the type of guy you're being
and something about it doesn't make her "feel" attraction for you.
Accept that the only way you'll ever escape the friend zone is to change your thoughts,
behavior, and habits around her and all other women.
Accept that your thoughts and behavior have created your current problem and have led
up to the situation you find yourself in right now.
The problem isn't women and that they don't appreciate a "great" guy like you.
The problem isn't the other guys who are "jerks" and "bad boys".
The problem isn't that the world doesn't work the way it's "supposed to".
In any situation, acceptance is the first step to overcoming that situation.
2. Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself
She doesn't want a guy who has a "poor me" attitude and she's definitely not going to let you
out of the friend zone because she feels sorry for you.
Don't feel sorry for yourself.
Don't be mad at yourself.
Don't feel like you're a loser.
Don't feel like women will never like you as more than a friend.
You'll only make your mental state worse and getting out of the friend zone will become that
much harder.
So when you accept where you're at, just tell yourself, "Ok it's cool. I'm not upset and I'm not
going to beat myself up. I got myself into this and I'll get myself out of it."
Leave your emotions and feelings about the situation out of it.
The more negative, low self-esteem, and unconfident you are around her, the less she'll
consider letting you out of the friend zone.
3. Stop Obsessing Over Her
Stop thinking about her way more than you should.
It's kind of creepy and over time, not healthy.
If she’s on your mind the second you wake up, every minute of every hour of every day, and
you're constantly staring at her pictures on Facebook, it's too much.
Tone it down.
You will never escape the friend zone when you're obsessed with her.
Get a life and become so busy that the last thing you have time for is to think about her.
Get rid of her photos from the “downloads" section of your phone that you stole off of
Facebook.
Stop stalking her on Facebook to see what she's doing, where she's at, what she's posted, or
who she's talking to.
Stop talking about her and asking about her when you're around mutual friends.
Get your mind off of her and place your focus on something else.
4. Stop Calling and Texting Her So Much
If you want the level of attraction she feels for you to change drastically, you have to stop
calling and texting so much.
You have to give her a break.
You have to chill out.
She's not going anywhere.
You're not going to die if you don't talk to her for a while.
She's not going to be worried sick that something happened to you.
You need to create what I've heard Frank Kern call a "pattern interrupt".
If the pattern is that you call and text every damn day, you need to interrupt the pattern by not
calling and texting her every day.
You need to interrupt the pattern of her only seeing you as a friend by disappearing and
making her go, "Whoa. Where did he go? I haven't heard a peep from him for a week."
Not calling and texting so much will GET HER ATTENTION and interrupt that pattern she
has of you in her mind.
When you catch her attention, she's now paying attention to you more than she normally does.
Remember, you're in the friend zone because SHE DOESN'T WANT to pay attention to you.
Catching her attention will start to help you escape.
5. Become More of A Challenge - Make Her
Work For It
She's automatically going to throw you in the friend zone when you're WAY too easy.
She doesn't want way too easy.
She doesn't want you to lay down and say, "I'm all yours! Come and get it!"
It's just not worth her time if she doesn't have to work for it.
It's not worth her time if it's not a challenge for her.
Have you ever noticed that she seems to be way more interested in the guys who talk to other
women, have a girlfriend, or even a WIFE way more than a guy who's throwing himself at
her?
You ever notice she's way more interested in the guy who has more female options and won't
settle for just any woman?
Why is this?
It's because women are VERY competitive by nature.
They want the guy that all the other women want.
They want the guy who won't just let her have him so easily.
You think women put on all that make-up and dress real sexy when they go out only for the
guys?
Haha!
They're also doing it so no other "bitches" look better than them.
Don't believe me? Ask a very attractive woman who gets a lot of male attention.
Women want to win and they don't want other "bitches" getting what they can't have.
If you're a guy who's very easy to get, you hold little to no value and she will always go after
the guy who's not as easy and she'll stick you right in the friend zone every time.
So when you stop calling and texting so much, that's your first step to becoming harder to get.
That's showing her you're no longer "in her back pocket" and you're not so easy anymore.
6. Become More Mysterious
Telling her your life story IS NOT what makes her feel attraction for you.
It's not what makes her think you're an amazing man.
It's not what makes her want to hop in bed with you.
It's not what makes her want you as "more than a friend".
Telling her your life story takes all of the mystery, excitement, and wonder out of the equation
and just leaves her with you - a guy who told her everything there is to know and now she's
bored.
Think about what makes someone so fun, exciting, and cool when you meet them and makes
you want to hang out with them all of the time - it's because you're getting to know them!
If they told you everything there is to know within the first day of meeting them, you wouldn't
be as excited anymore to hang out with them and you probably wouldn't have as much fun
with them.
Getting to know someone is the fun part and you ruin that fun when you blab everything about
yourself to her.
When you're not mysterious, she'll find you boring, dull, unexciting, she'll have nothing left
to "wonder" about, and she'll automatically stick you in the friend zone.
SHE WANTS the fun and excitement of not knowing everything about you.
So stop opening your mouth about the details of your life.
Logical thinking convinces you that the less she knows about you, the less she'll want to hang
around you but the opposite is actually true.
The less she knows, the more "fun" she'll have getting to know you.
7. Allow Her To Miss You
So when you disappear for a while and you quit calling and texting so much, you are giving
her the opportunity to miss you, think about you, and wonder about you.
You're interrupting the pattern in her mind and she's feeling a void in her life because your
behavior is changing.
Her mind switches from what she was doing to "What happened to ______?"
And before you know it, she's missing you and wants to talk to you to know how you're
doing, what you're doing, and who you're doing it with.
Women are very curious by nature and you must use her curiosity to your advantage in order
to start pulling yourself out of that friend zone.
You must stand out by being absent.
As Thomas Haynes Bayly said in the song "Isle of Beauty" in 1839 - "Absence makes the heart
grow fonder."
8. Become Less Interested
Also when you finally do come around to talking to her and hanging around her again,
showing less interest will help you even more to get out of the friend zone.
When you show too much interest, she KNOWS she has you wrapped around her finger.
She KNOWS she can have you any time she wants.
She KNOWS she has you in her back pocket.
Showing less interest makes you a challenge, more mysterious and harder to get - which she
wants.
If she has the option of taking the guy who she knows is REALLY interested in her or the guy
who doesn't show as much interest, she's going to choose the guy who's not showing as much
interest.
So quit showing as much interest.
I didn't say to quit being interested.
I just said not to let it show. Don't communicate it. Don't tell her.
Just keep it to yourself and you'll notice that she'll start showing and communicating more
interest towards YOU.
9. Act Like You Don't Care
Not showing as much interest and acting like you don't care are not really the same thing.
When she starts talking about other guys, showing that you care and getting all weird and
jealous will get you thrown in the friend zone with all the other guys who cared too much.
Instead, when she starts talking about other guys, don't let it bother you - or at least don't let it
show that it bothers you.
Just don't care.
Be stoic about it.
Be emotionless about it.
Don't let her see you get bent out of shape.
When she sees you don't care, something magical happens and she begins to feel more
attraction for you.
She starts to really like your "care free" and laid back attitude to it all because she's used to
guys getting bent out of shape over small things.
Show her you're different by not showing her that you give a damn about the things that don't
really matter.
10. Become More Relaxed Around Her
Being tense, unable to relax, and nervous communicates to her that she has power over you,
she can have you whenever she wants, and she more than likely has you "in her back pocket".
She wants a guy who's able to be calm, cool, and relaxed around her and when you're unable
to be that guy, she's going to put you in the friend zone.
When you're anything but calm, cool, and relaxed, your energy rubs off on her and causes her
to not be able to relax as well.
She begins to feel on edge, fidgety, and full of anxiety.
This kills her ability to feel attraction for you.
When you're relaxed and not uptight, nervous, or full of anxiety, she's able to let her guard
down, chill out, and have a good time with you.
When you're feeling really nervous, uptight, and full of anxiety around her, excuse yourself,
go to the bathroom, put some water on your face, take some deep breaths, and relax your
mind.
You have the ability to calm your brain down.
You just have to focus, calm your breathing, calm your body down, and you'll feel better.
11. Stop Kissing Her Butt, Complimenting
Her, and Being So Damn Nice
Probably the #1 thing I've noticed that most if not all guys in the friend zone have in common
is they don't know when to stop complimenting, kissing ass, and being so nice to the woman
they like.
They have it figured out that the nicer they are, the more compliments they give, and the more
they suck up to her, the more she'll realize and see what a great guy they are.
They don't realize this is pushing them so deep into the friend zone that even a special ops
search and rescue team won't be able to find them.
If you really want to get out of the friend zone and stay out of it, this is something you NEED
to work on and change about yourself.
You need to quit seeking her approval.
You need to quit seeking validation from her.
You need to quit caring so much what she thinks about you.
You need to quit trying to seem like the nicest guy in the world.
She's not going to think you're a bad guy if you stop complimenting her, kissing her ass, and
being so nice to her.
In fact, she'll actually appreciate you more for it and think you're a pretty cool guy because
she's TIRED of men sucking up to her, trying to get her approval, and showering her with
empty compliments in order to get between her legs.
So chill with the "extra nice" stuff and just be relaxed and fun around her without needing her
validation.
12. Stop Buying Her Things, Spending
Money On Her, and Letting Her Use You
If she's able to get you to buy her things, spend money on her, and pay her bills - and you stick
around and act like it's no big deal, she'll for sure stick you in the friend zone because she
doesn't respect you.
Women don't take advantage of men they respect but if you're trying to buy their attention,
some of them are going to take the bait and pretend to like you and be interested in you.
I've seen it with my own eyes too many times.
If fact, I've known some of the women who do this and it's almost the same story every single
time, "Hey if he's dumb enough to give me all that money and to think I'm really interested in
him then he deserves it."
If she thinks you're an idiot, you're dumb, gullible, and she can pull a "fast one" on you, then
she's going to automatically friend zone you.
13. Let Her Handle Her Own Problems
I used to be the guy who wanted to make women's problems better so they would see me as
some kind of hero or knight in shining armor.
But that didn't get me very far.
In fact, it only made me wind up in the friend zone feeling unhappy, worn out, and used.
But I did it to myself.
When she has problems, I'm warning you right now, don't try to be the guy who makes it all
better.
Don't be the guy who makes it all go away.
She's a responsible adult and if she created the problems, she should be able to solve them and
figure them out for herself.
I noticed that when I quit trying to be "Captain Save A Hizzo" that I was happier, I wasn't in the
friend zone, and women were feeling a lot more attraction for me.
If she gets herself into a mess, let her get herself out of it.
14. Stop Being Her Girlfriend
Trying to be her best friend so you can get "close to her" is a big mistake and it's something I
see happening way too often with guys who have been friend zoned but don't know it.
Don't be the guy who listens to her "guy problems".
Don't be the guy who goes shopping with her.
Don't be the guy who holds her purse while she dances with other guys.
Don't be the guy who gives her relationship advice when you secretly are in love with
her.
Don't be the guy who takes her everywhere she wants to go in hopes that she'll think
you're a "great guy".
Don't be the guy who constantly agrees with her says, "Gosh, I know right!"
Don't be the guy who constantly invites her to have a "friendly" cup of coffee when
you really want it to be a date.
If you're not direct with your intentions or making it obvious by your actions, she's possibly
going to friend zone you way before you know it has even happened.
I'd rather be the guy who tells her, "F*** being your best guy friend. I want to be the friend
who's nailing you" and for her to slap me, run away, and never talk to me again than to be the
guy who tells her, "I've always liked you and I want to be more than friends."
She's not going to magically fall in love with her best guy friend because he confesses his
feelings to her.
That only works in the movies.
In real life she'll say, "Aww. But you're such a great friend. I don't want to mess that up."
And off to the friend zone you go where she'll kick you in the back when you're not looking,
you'll flip head over heels down several dark flights of stairs, and you'll wind up hitting the
ground of the friend zone so hard it knocks you out.
When you wake up, you'll see her slamming that metal door to the friend zone and through
that little window, all you'll be able to do is watch her going out with and having relationships
with other guys and NOT YOU.
Awesome stuff.
15. Start Telling Her "No"
To separate yourself and get her to take you seriously, you have to learn when to tell her "no"
- regardless of how much you like her.
Telling her "no" gets her attention, wakes her up, and communicates to her she's dealing with
a man who knows what he wants and he's not settling for less.
Telling her "no" starts the process is disqualifying you as friend zone material and starts the
process of qualifying you as boyfriend material.
I'll never forget I was sitting in the back seat of my older brother's car, he was driving, his
smoking hot girlfriend was in the passenger ’s seat, and he had told her "no" to something she
wanted.
She responded by laughing and saying, "That's what I love about you. You never give me my
way. It's refreshing because I'm so tired of being able to get my way with whoever I want."
I remember being stunned at what she had just said, trying to wrap my brain around it, making
a mental note of it.
My brother is the type who just doesn't care how hot, rich, or famous the woman is - if he
doesn't like something, he'll tell them "no" without caring what she thinks about it.
So if you want to stay in the friend zone, keep being a "yes man".
But if you want to get out of the friend one and stay out of it, start saying no, setting
boundaries, and not doing anything that you don't want to do.
16. Keep Your "Feelings" To Yourself and
Control Your Emotions
A common "critical moment" when a guy goes from potential boyfriend material to friend
zone material is when he opens his mouth, spills his guts, and reveals his true "feelings" to the
woman he likes.
It comes out like vomit.
And women are so used to this happening that they can almost predict when it's about to
happen.
So they pull out the key to the friend zone door, unlock it, open it, and wait for the guy to
"confess his love" so they can say, "Aww that's so sweet" and kick him down those stairs.
If you climb out of hell (the friend zone), you have to keep your feelings to yourself.
You have to stop telling her how much you like her.
You have to stop telling her how wonderful and perfect you think she is.
You have to stop coming across as a love sick and lonely guy.
You have to stop being so transparent.
You have to take away her ability to easily "figure you out".
I have a personal rule that I call the 50/50 rule.
If she tells me she "likes" me, I tell her "I like you too."
If she tells me she misses me, I tell her "I miss you too."
Etc.
I NEVER go further with it than she does... EVER.
And if I don't mean it, I don't say it.
NEVER reveal more to her than she's revealing to you.
If she doesn't say anything but she's cool, then keep your mouth SHUT and just be cool.
Let her spill her guts FIRST because it evens the playing field and gives you the upper hand
most of the time.
She's giving YOU the power when she confesses her "feelings" first.
17. Improve Yourself and Become More
Attractive
Those who are stuck in the friend zone are unwilling to work and improve themselves so they
can become more attractive to the woman they like.
Instead they make excuses, blame her for not knowing what a "good guy" is, and they believe
that the right, perfect, and high quality woman, who will appreciate them and accept them as
they are, will magically appear and make them the happiest guy on earth.
If you don't improve yourself and do whatever it takes the become the best version of yourself
possible, then you're lowering your chances of the women you like accepting you "as you
are".
You can change your "as you are" by improving it, building upon it, modifying it, and making
it more attractive.
Does that make sense?
In my eBook How to Quit Being a Loser With Women I talk about if you want women to like
you and be attracted to you for "who you are", then you might have to improve yourself to the
point where your "who you are" is so attractive and appealing that they can't stay away from
you.
No one said you can't change who you naturally are.
Once you change something and you do it over and over, it becomes second nature,
automatic, and unconscious - thus it becomes "who you are".
18. Get On Your Path and Purpose As A
Man
There is nothing more attractive to the woman who put you in the friend zone that for you to
know who you are, what you're doing, where you're going, and who you're going to become.
A man who is on a mission and nothing will stop him is a modern day super hero.
He's focused, driven, determined, and on his path to his own destiny.
Most guys who are in the friend zone don't know their purpose.
They don't know what path they should be taking in life.
They don't what they want to become, where they're going, why they're going there, and what
they're going to do when they get there.
Your path and purpose in life is your substance as a man.
It's your life force.
It's your reason for waking up every day and being motivated to be better and do better.
Figure out what you love to do, what you think you should be doing, and spend every waking
moment determined to make it happen.
Always be planning, preparing, scheming, and executing actions that bring you closer to what
you want.
When you are in that mindset and you are focused, driven, determined, and on top of your
game, women will be fighting for your attention and to be in your life.
The last place you'll end up in is the friend zone.
19. Tell People "Oh No She's JUST My
Friend (Right In Front of Her)
Flip the script on her.
Do something to her that I guarantee no guy has ever done to her.
Make her question where she really stands WITH YOU instead of you questioning where you
stand with her.
When someone asks, "Are you together?", just say, "Oh no. She's just MY friend."
Use her words against her.
Have the upper hand on her.
Take the power away from her.
Make her think, "Does he like me? Does he really just see me as a friend?"
Women think A LOT and this will mess with her head.
The more she thinks about it, the more she'll think about YOU and the more she'll
unconsciously want your approval.
The thought of just being your "friend" and having the script flipped on her will drive her
insane.
It will unconsciously drive her to want to be MORE than just your friend.
If you don't believe me, try it.
She will open that door, goes down those dark stairs, find you, and yank you out of that friend
zone faster than you can blink.
20. Become More Private and Stop Telling
Her Your Business
Part of being more mysterious is not telling her your business.
Don't let her know too much about what's going on in your life.
The more private you are, the more curious she'll get, and the more she'll "want in".
The more you tell her about yourself, the more power she'll have to stick you in the friend
zone.
21. Go Out On Dates and Don't Tell Her
About It OR the Women You Go Out With
Not telling her your business and being more private also includes telling her about other
women.
Who cares how much you like her?
It doesn't mean you're doing something wrong if you don't tell her you went out on a few
dates with other women.
You're not dating her, she's not your girlfriend or wife, and she's the person who stuck you in
the friend zone.
The more you leave to her imagination, the more power you're taking away from her.
The more likely she'll be to want to be the girl you're going out with.
If you want her to see you as boyfriend material instead of friend zone material, it's necessary
to create that competition.
It's necessary to become that guy who has more than one option in women.
It's necessary to raise your value as a man by showing her that other women actually want you
and you're not all about her.
Make sense?
It's not playing mind games.
It's just communicating to her primal instincts that you're valuable and not friend zone
material.
22. Stop Asking Permission
Guys who are begging to be put in the friend zone ask "Is it OK?" questions.
They seek her permission before they do anything because they're so afraid of her
disapproving and running away.
In my eBook 99 Bad Boy Traits, I talk about how bad boys don't ask for permission. They
don't ask "is it ok?" before they do things.
They like it when a man has a clear definition in his mind of what he wants, how he wants it,
where he wants it, and won't settle for anything less.
It gives him more power as a man.
It communicates that he's absolutely sure of himself.
27. Stop Being Submissive to Her
And finally, being submissive will definitely get you thrown in the friend zone every time.
She doesn't want you to put her on a pedestal and to bow down to her.
She doesn't want you to kiss her feet.
She doesn't want to you worship her.
She doesn't want to have power over you.
She wants a guy who isn't submissive to her, doesn't put her on a pedestal, and doesn't make
her "better" than him.
She wants an equal.
She wants a guy who she feels happy WITH and she doesn't want to be above him or below
him.
Make sense?
Don't be submissive to her.
Don't act like her servant.
When she doesn't feel she's above you or below you, but rather an equal, she'll be less likely
to even think about putting you in the friend zone.
Let's Review to Make Sure You Got It
1. If you're in the friend zone, you did something wrong
2. To get out of the friend zone, your behavior must change. Not your words and not women.
3. Being put in the friend zone doesn't mean you're physically unattractive. It means your
behavior is unattractive.
4. Trying harder to do the same things you've been doing won't help you.
5. Accept your situation and don't lie to yourself.
6. Don't feel sorry for yourself or seek pity.
7. Stop obsessing over her.
8. Cut back on how much you call and text her.
9. Become more of a challenge.
10. Become more mysterious.
11. Allow her to miss you.
12. Stop communicating that you're too interested in her.
13. Stop caring so much.
14. Learn to relax more when you're around her.
15. Stop sucking up to her, complimenting her, and being too nice.
16. Stop buying her things, spending money on her, and and letting her use you.
17. Let her fix her own problems.
18. Stop trying to be her best friend.
19. Start telling her "no".
20. Stop spilling your guts and telling her your "feelings".
21. Improve yourself as much as you can.
22. Get on your path and purpose as a man.
23. Tell people, "Oh no. She's just MY friend."
24. Be private and stop telling her your business.
25. Don't tell her about your love life.
26. Stop asking for her permission.
27. Don't be afraid to touch her.
28. Don't be afraid to casually talk about sex.
29. Take the lead and stop following.
30. Raise your standards.
31. Don't be submissive to her.
Take these 27 behaviors, concepts, and mindsets and incorporate them into "who you are" and
when you're around that women tells you you're just a "friend", look at what you're doing and
compare your behavior to what you've learned here.
With conscious practice, changing the way you think, changing the way your mind works,
changing your behavior, and changing your habits, you can maximize your chances of getting
out of the friend zone and avoid every going back there.
Thanks for reading.