Part of the dating game is, and always will be, rejections. This is the case whether you are relatively new to dating, or you look like Brad Pitt or Jeniffer Aniston and you are an amazing flirt! There are simple reasons why you should never expect your advances to be accepted by everybody:

1. He/she may be in an exclusive relationship, engaged, or married! (It’s worth checking the third finger of the left hand for an engagement ring or a wedding band.)

2. He/she may have just come out of a long-term relationship and wish to remain single, or for some other reason the timing is bad (perhaps they are putting their career first at present).

3. He/she may not be a very nice person, probably lacking in confidence, and may get a kick out of putting you down. Not the sort of person you’d really want to date!

4. It sounds outrageous, but he/she may simply not like the way you smell. In tests, it has been shown that pheromones given off by your body are analysed by the subconscious, and if the pheromones are too similar to those of the individual you are approaching, it is an indicator that offspring from a coupling between you would likely not be as healthy as offspring from people that have differing pheromones. This is because your immune systems are too similar, and diversity will not occur. If this happens, the person you’ve approached will tend not to be keen on you, and they won’t even know why!

5. Maybe he/she not attracted to people of your sex!

There are plenty of other reasons that could be listed here that I haven’t thought of! So, never worry about being rejected, and never let it knock your confidence when it happens. If you’re ever rejected by somebody you’d like to date, just move on to the next person. It’s their loss, after all, because you’re so wonderful! While you should make sure you don’t let arrogance into your flirting, you should definitely be actively developing this mindset. There are about three billion people of the opposite sex in the world, so if you keep trying you will be successful.