You are constantly in the friend zone with men, and much of this has to do with you not picking up on their romantic cues early on.

There have been several men in your past who gave you romantic cues that you didn’t reciprocate.

You were unaware of these romantic cues or chose to ignore them.

In not reciprocating, several of these men chose not to pursue you as a romantic prospect and didn’t ask you out on a date.

This is the moment he chose to put you in the friend zone.

When you are bad at picking up on romantic cues from men, you are missing out on men who wanted to court you.

Think back to the men who have put you in the friend zone in the past.

Were there instances where they were giving you romantic cues that you weren’t aware of or chose to ignore?

There were.

Men have the burden of performance in courting.

He is the one who has to approach the girl, open a conversation, and ask for a date.

With this burden of performance, he wants to mitigate the prospects of getting rejected.

To this end, he looks to her to respond to his romantic cues and show him signs of romantic interest.

Should he observe that she isn’t doing any of this, he doesn’t pursue nor ask her out.

He is assuming that she isn’t interested in him, and doesn’t want to risk getting rejected in asking her out.

There have been several instances in your past when a man has given you romantic cues that you didn’t respond to.

Furthermore, you have rarely shown signs of romantic interest towards these men.

Without any of this, a man is far more likely to put you in his friend zone rather than risk getting rejected.

A man is sending romantic cues when he keeps making eye contact with you and smiling.

How many times has this happened to you in the past without any reciprocation on your end?

A man is conveying romantic cues when he gives you compliments on your physicality multiple times.

How many times have you been at the receiving end of compliments from a man and never bothered to return his compliments?

A man intimates romantic cues when he keeps initiating text messages or conversations with you, and keeps asking you insightful questions about yourself.

How many times do you initiate a text message or conversation with a man?

Do you ask him insightful questions about himself?

When you aren’t responsive as a man exhibits these behaviors, it gives him the impression that you aren’t interested in him.

To prevent what he deems as obvious rejection, he doesn’t ask you out, and chooses to put you in his friend zone.

Notwithstanding how depressing all of this sounds, all isn’t lost.

There are a few of these men who aren’t completely closed off to the idea of dating you.

He put you in the friend zone under the belief that you weren’t interested in him.

By making subtle changes in how you socialize with him, you influence a change in how he sees you.

In exhibiting signs of romantic interest through what you say and do, he realizes that you have an interest in him that transcends friendship.

Think about the male friends you have who initially exhibited romantic cues towards you, before choosing to put you in the friend zone.

Moving forward, keep showing signs of interest towards the single men in this selection.

Once they pick up on this, you reignite their romantic interest in you.

This is how you exit the friend zone.