Ye gods! Pull yerself together, man!
Man, I haven't had to do this in such a long time, but I'm afraid it's overdue right now:
< Slaps CunningLinguist around with a trout so huge it knocks all the silliness out of him >
Well I'm sorry, but you asked for it!
Now
SMILE, DAMN YOU!
Much better. Now, lie down on the couch.....
So, Mr. Linguist. Read Lilith's post, cos she's right. This girl - we'll call her Vicky, ok? - she hasn't turned you down at all. You haven't even given her a chance to turn you down. Not everything people say to their friends is Gospel, especially not with 19 year olds!
Yes, she's probably still mixed up emotionally about her ex. Think about how messed up you are about this 'rejection' that didn't even happen - she's feeling the same things but after she'd been IN a relationship! At least when you ask someone out, you take the risk they'll turn you down and you prepare a little for that. But when you're in a committed relationship and someone says "hey, it was great, but I don't wanna shag you cos other chicks are hotter" - how do you think THAT makes her feel? One hundred times more rejected than you. But that's not going to last forever. It might take a month, it might take six months, it might take a year - who knows? The female mind is far to complex for mere mortals to predict.
Here's something that'll really flip your lid: THIS IS A GOOD THING!
Think about it: while she's emotionally wacked out, you have the opportunity to:
a) get your self-confidence up from the depths of that smelly swampland called Depression
b) show her you care, be supportive through her very difficult time, let her know you've got a caring, sensitive side that would be a nice comparison to the dickhead who dumped her
c) plan how you're going to court her. It's a sad reality, but girls don't just decide to sleep with you for no reason at all. One has to seduce them, woo them,
court them. It takes work, but so does everything in life. Wouldn't it be worth it, to have a wonderful loving relationship?
The Mum thing...... what a petty society we live in, where teenage girls will turn down great guys purely cos their parents like him! Unfortunately, stupid stuff like that CAN happen. Doesn't always, tho! Some girls - shocking as it may seem these days - some girls actually do get on well with their parents! Sure, that's after the whole puberty thing, when they're all mature and wise and sensible, which she might be!!!
Don't write someone off purely because of other people's opinions - be they good opinions or otherwise.
Seriously CunningLinguist, you have GOT to focus on the positive. No girl in her right mind is going to say "You know what, really think it's about time I started dating depressed guys with no self esteem, yeah they're the kind of guys I dig!" - confidence is attractive, so make yourself attractive! If the glass is half empty, fill the damn thing!
So, your lessons from today's lecture are:
1. Be confident. The dating game is one big capitalist adventure, in more ways than one. You have to sell yourself to her, and nobody ever bought a car from a dealer who said it was a piece of shit.
2. Don't admit defeat until you hear it from her lips - and if that happens be gracious, be hurt, but get over it. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or just nearly dead. Make sure you come out stronger!
3. If teenagers made judgements based solely on what their parents thought was best for them, they would all be pregnant druggies with fifteen different STDs.
4. Pixies-place is far cheaper than professional counselling, but not necessarily as effective

5. I like the number five too. But if I lost a finger I'd have another nine so I wouldn't be too worried.
6. You don't have to rush things. You'll have to use your intuition to guage when the best time to ask her out is, but don't do it if she's still getting over someone.
7. If it's meant to happen, it will. Relax. Relaaaaaax. Find that bit of your brain that likes to stress over things like this, and give it a nice cool brightly coloured drink with an umbrella in it. Send it to the mental equivalent of Bora-Bora, but with redheads.
Ok, so I've had a lot of sugar today. Doesn't mean what I said isn't worth reading, dammit!
Be happy, and keep us updated!
CasperTG