Ego boost? Nooo fuck your ego it doesn't matter what it thinks as Phil said you're still alive.

Yeah this has been the approach I've been taking. Eg Guy in question bumped into us and had drink with us next day. He accidentily had my beer in front of him and I was like jesus christ do you need to nick everything of mine mate (in jokey way).

On surface think handling well. Using this forum to get my real feelings off my chest, which has worked and again good advice Phil. Put it in perspective.

The girl hasn't said a word to me since. Is weird as, pulling aside, she was one of my closest friends on island. I'm not in a rush to re-ignite this friendship though as she did act like a weirdo and an arsehole after we pulled.

Snake Eyes, I'm not sure if this applies to your situation or not. But anyway, a few years ago, I was openly promiscuous while living abroad in a fairly small community. I thought that the reputation would make me appear more attractive to other women because of the social proof thing, but with most of the quality women, I think it actually lowered my value in their eyes.

I imagine it was because of the way women are competitive with each other, and so by sleeping with women that they perceived as lower value than themselves, I ruined my chances with them. If I had my time again, I would try and be as discreet as possible.

Fuck yes it does! This has been at the back of my mind. Girl who I lost out on is fitter than the girl I most famously fucked here. I had a couple of people say fitter one is out of my league. She isn't, but I guess to people here she is as I set the bar. I'm even tempted to get bird I was seeing in london over, but is big expense just to prove a point (and have a fantastic time with a sound girl for 2 weeks I suppose)!! London girl is pretty poor so couldn't afford it herself. Don't think I'm going to do this