You’ve spent the day with her, come back to her place, had sex, watched a movie and drank some wine. But instead of sleeping over, you decide to go home to chill by yourself for a night. As you head toward her door to leave, she skips over, throws her arms over your shoulders, and kisses you goodbye, whispering ‘i love you’ with the tone of urgent expectation that it would be answered in kind. Her eyes speak with that giveaway limpid twinkle that tells you she was never more enraptured by you than at that very moment, and lurking underneath her joyous exterior is just the tiniest undercurrent of anxiety — sweet sweet anxiety — as she watches you walk away from her.
Yeah, she knows, consciously, that she’ll see you tomorrow, but for know, the act of physically leaving her presence to set off for a homeland 1/4 mile away imbues her subconscious with the same exquisite dread of loss that her distant female ancestors must have felt when their men left in the morning for the hunt on the plains just over the horizon.
Logically, it should make no sense that leaving her place would fill her heart with even stronger longing, and more powerful sexual attraction, when she knows that you live close by and you aren’t going on a dangerous hunt or raiding expedition with your laptop and cellphone. And yet, those ancient feelings bubble to the surface unbidden, caring not for logic or sensibility.
It’s a quite rudimentary act, this leaving your lover’s place so she is standing behind to watch you saunter off; one so devious in its simplicity that most men do it by accident, unaware of the soul-stirring effect it has on women.
When you spend time with a woman at her place, and then leave, you are artificially boosting your status relative to hers. This status boost triggers powerful feelings of lust and love in her. For reasons that harken back to a time shrouded in the mists of our tribal antiquity, a man who parts from his lover rather than waits for his lover to part from him is perceived more attractively to her.
The corollary to this phenomenon is also true, and should give you pause. If she is at your place, and she leaves to go do something by herself, the physical nature of her parting from your abode and you kissing her goodbye reverses the omnipresent status tension that must always exist to foster her desire for you. Do it enough times, and barely comprehended forces emanating from the deepest abyss of her id will push outward, staining her subconscious impression of you as a higher status man, until spite and resentment begin to intrude on once idyllic moments of loving peacefulness.
Therefore, try to make it a habit to part her company more often than she parts yours. A mirror image of Poon Commandment V — follow the golden ratio — applies: for every two times she leaves your place, leave her place three times.
What about those of us who cohabit?, some of you are asking. Well, there are ways to leave a woman without really leaving her, and without leaving for another home. Just imagine you have your own interests, and occasionally adventure calls, and you must heed it, without her. She can’t help but love you when you leave her behind.

Seems this should go for leaving in the morning for work, too, if you cohabit. Trying to leave earlier than her more often than not! Thanks for the tip; I’ve not been doing that and I’ve definitely felt the erosion.
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absence makes the heart grow fonder…
…and the gina tingle
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Roissy, good to have you back
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out of sight, out of mind… or not.
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Or visit a foreign country for an extended period, say 6 weeks, where she knows you have another lover. Who is also hot and, if not as interesting, very good in bed.
See how that spins in the ol’ hamster wheel.
Women can sell themselves anything.
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I was once w/ a girl, at a party, w/ all of her old friends from school. An alpha from her HS was there, and she was hanging on him, w/ a blissful look on her face. I was socializing w/ randoms when I saw this.
I was going to split, unannounced, but she caught me on my way out the door. We went back to her place, started to climb into bed… and I told her I was going home. She called me crying as soon as I left. I didn’t feel great, but I felt better.
Much less alpha, but similar. Any suggestions on that one?
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good advice. it makes the woman feel an unfulfilledness in her heart and she will attempt to compensate more for her perceived subconscious deficiencies. it even transfers dominance to your environment, which she will sense when she goes over.
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Isn’t there an advantage to having the girl make the trip to your place more often than you make the trip to hers (especially if the distance is not negligible)?
What would lead to a higher status boost – a scenario in which the girl makes the trip to your place more often (and then leaves it more often as a result), or the alternative, in which you make the trip to her place (and then leave it more often as a result)? Does it make a difference if, for example, you talk her into spending the night every time she comes over, but leave early/middle of the night/right after sex when at her place?
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if you go to her place more it’s a chance to mark your territory, take over her space.
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How can I make this work when gaming teens and early 20’s chicks who live with parents/family, and are thus have places that are off limits to fucking? Especially when they have a bf and you’re nailing it as a “good friend”
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Don’t forget asking her to leave your place before she does on her own. You need to get things done, etc.
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I don’t agree. I think there is definitely an aspect of dominance to making here come to your place. She is the one put out, has to pack, travel farther for work, not be in her own home and comfortable. I have had girls complain about always having to come over to my place and that it should be equal. I just say thats the way its going to be and they are happy about the dominance.
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This is similar to breaking patterns like not calling or chatting for a few days, waiting for her to make contact.
She’ll wonder what’s up.
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This is definitely the way to go, as it tells her that you enjoy her company but you have a life of your own. She doesn’t need to know that you’re really going home to hop on the PS3/XBOX and play some SOCOM, or jack off to some Japanese Tentacle Anime porn, in her mind you just might have another girl that you need to make time for.
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“You’ve spent the day with her, come back to her place, had sex…” This is where I usually start to plan the graceful exit. Does any guy ever really want to stick around after?
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To make this work if she’s over at your place, you can walk her to the nearby traffic-light/tree/fire hydrant/bus stop etc. and say BUH-BYE, and then turn around and go back.
Key is, DON’T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME at w/e you are walking her to, smooching, and saying how much you enjoyed her company. Curtly say bye bye.
For example, if you walk her over to the bus stop, don’t wait for the bus, briskly leave instead.
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Schmoe said “Seems this should go for leaving in the morning for work, too, if you cohabit ”
I’ve experienced this with my wife. I work from home several days/week. She has to go to an office.
I used to think the shitty attitude I would get from her was due to jealousy that she could not work remote. This post makes me think that there may be a more primal cause.
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So true yet so unintuitive. A dude totally head over heels in love would never think about leaving a girl’s place he’d just slept with – he’d think “Oh, she’s different” or “This relationship is in a different place”. Unfortunately, being that infatuated kills your status relative to hers and eventually your attraction.
Pretty similar to the whole “Always have her send the last text” rule that’s working out great for me so far.
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Excellent, Roissy.
When I used to coach for Lance Mason, he would say that he dated his girl for months–even years–without seeing the inside of her place. She would always come to him.
There is a certain alpha-ness to not going to her place and having her come to yours. This is due to who is inconvenienced. Particularly on a weeknight, if you have to go to her place, you’re inconvenienced.
Eric
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Wait a minute, women actually have places of their own? I thought they just always lived at home on daddy’s money while getting men to pay for their tit job.
*hmmmm*
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Question: would you say that not being home when she gets there has the same effect? In other words, will she pine in an empty apartment until you get back?
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I also want to know about the travel issue. Seems to me that having a female drive to your place, get screwed, then drive home would be a more dominant set of behaviors. No?
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She never SEES my place.
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Particularly on a weeknight, if you have to go to her place, you’re inconvenienced.
also a matter of not running into husbands.
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The preemptive departure harkens back to the stone age…
And tickles the hamster for that reason.
Her lover is re-ordering his priority stack — and she didn’t make it to the top.
Instead, he’s off doing manly things, not yet shackled to domesticity.
You’ll recall the same dynamic was used to artistic effect in the close of “Once Upon a Time in the West.”
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Cohabit?!?
Cohabit = Beta.
In reality, you learn nothing about the chick (if you ever planned on marrying), as you’re just playing house. And all she does is encroach on your freedom of maneuver.
Just get the cheapest shit you can at Ikea, and leave your balls in her purse, as neither are gonna last.
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This is so true. I’ve had a girl immediately call me after leaving her place while I still driving informing me that she wanted to be exclusive in her drunken slur. Cute.
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