The most interesting part though is that these books urge women to make themselves deliberately less available and play hard to get in just about every way, so that the guy is forced to prove himself and his interest by upping the pursuit game.
But this is just the textbook version. Lately I say things as I see and know them and unfortunately this doesn’t always sit well with a handful of people. But just in case that happens again even now, apologies are already in order. An opinion columnist is like a hangman, they are necessary evils and somebody has to do the dirty jobs.