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What was the relationship between Neil Strauss and Lisa Leveridge in The Game<\/em>? How did Neil Strauss and Lisa meet, and what happened between them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Strauss and Lisa Leveridge had a relationship that inspired “Style” to leave the PUA community. Neil Strauss and Lisa’s relationship was built on their genuine personalities, instead of the persona he’d crafted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Neil Strauss and Lisa<\/strong> Leveridge’s Relationship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One day, two of Courtney Love\u2019s bandmates, Sam and Lisa, showed up at Project Hollywood<\/a>, looking for Love. Love was not around, so Style sat and talked with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style had met them once before, but this time he was struck by Lisa, Love\u2019s guitarist. Lisa absolutely oozed confidence\u2014so much so that she was impenetrable to Style\u2019s seduction tactics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society teaches women to be submissive, which causes many women to make themselves seem less imposing and even less intelligent in an effort to appear more attractive to men. This was part of the reason negs worked in seduction, because it played up this power hierarchy between men and women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some women rejected that model\u2014and Lisa was one of them. Lisa had inner confidence that didn\u2019t rely on validation from anyone else. Negs bounced right off of Lisa because she could dismiss them without a moment of doubt about who she was or how awesome she was; if the guy negging her didn\u2019t see that, it was his problem. <\/strong>This was part of the reason Neil Strauss and Lisa were unable to connect due to his PUA strategies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, Neil Strauss and Lisa began spending more time together. They had common interests and great chemistry, but even after spending multiple nights together, talking in bed, Lisa wouldn\u2019t let Style kiss her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negging didn\u2019t work. None of his routines worked. Freezing her out didn\u2019t help. She was adamant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style began to doubt himself. He prided himself on his ability to kiss-close women within a half-hour of meeting them. Style wondered if Lisa saw through his techniques to the man he\u2019d been before he joined the community, the man who was insecure and afraid of women\u2019s power to reject him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style\u2019s Seduction Tactics Push Lisa Away<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When Lisa went out of town to play with the band, she asked Style if they could have dinner together when she was back in town. Still relying on his seduction strategies, Style gave a cocky-funny response\u2014but it backfired, and Lisa was turned off by Style\u2019s obnoxious reply. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style managed to salvage dinner plans, and he eagerly prepared for the night Lisa was scheduled to return to LA. Style waited at the airport, but Lisa never showed up. He called, but she didn\u2019t pick up the phone or return his messages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style found out later from Love that Lisa had come in on an earlier flight. He was still confused as to why Lisa had stood him up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple days later, Neil Strauss and Lisa did get together. Lisa called Style to say she was back in town. She offered no explanation or apology. Style felt sure that things were over between the two of them\u2014she clearly wasn\u2019t interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style was on his way to Miami with another PUA, so he spent his trip sarging<\/a> and sleeping with women in an effort to get over Lisa. He used the massage routine to instigate another threesome, and, for a moment, he was on top of the world. But as soon as it was over, he felt empty. Style realized that he had no real connection with any of the women he\u2019d spent the last two years sleeping with. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Is Hot and Cold With Style<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One day, as Style was leaving the mansion, Lisa came driving up. She and Sam\u2014Courtney Love\u2019s other bandmate\u2014were on their way to a bar, and they were on their way to Project Hollywood to invite Style to join them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style went back to the house to change, and then hurried to the bar to meet them. He was eager to find out why Lisa had stood him up after her trip to Atlanta, but when he got to the bar, Lisa and Sam were sitting with two men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men were intimidating, not just because of their tattoos and rock-and-roll style, but also because they were exactly the type of men Style assumed Lisa would date. Style felt invisible next to the men; this was another way Neil Strauss and Lisa struggled to connect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disappointed that he couldn\u2019t talk with Lisa, Style got up from the table and sarged to make himself feel better.<\/strong> He wanted a jolt of positive feedback from a woman to ease his feeling of rejection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as he approached one set (group of women) after another, he discovered that they all knew his routines already. Project Hollywood had been pumping out so many PUAs-in-training that all the women who went to the clubs in that area had already heard all of the same lines and routines.<\/strong> The same thing was happening in other seduction hubs\u2014from New York to San Francisco to Montreal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now doubly discouraged, Style told Lisa and Sam that he was heading home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style Breaks Up With Isabel<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

When Style got back to Project Hollywood, Isabel\u2014one of the many women he\u2019d been casually dating, whose jealousy impeded Style\u2019s first threesome attempt\u2014was there waiting for him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was nothing wrong with Isabel, but Style\u2019s feelings for her paled in comparison to how he felt about Lisa.<\/strong> Nonetheless, they had sex and she spent that night with Style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, Isabel pressed Style about whether he was still dating other women. He confessed that not only had he started seeing Lisa, but that he had feelings for her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabel gave Style an ultimatum: leave Lisa or lose Isabel. There was no question in Style\u2019s mind\u2014he chose Lisa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Style Gets Clarification From Lisa<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For all the difficulty Style was having trying to break through Lisa\u2019s tough exterior, he wondered why he kept coming back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • He thought that she<\/em><\/strong> might be using the same hard-to-get seduction tactics on <\/strong>him<\/em><\/strong>, and that they were working as well for Lisa as they had for Style time and again. <\/li>
  • He considered whether he\u2019d internalized the alpha-male principles to the point that he was determined to sleep with Lisa because she posed such a challenge<\/strong>, simply to prove that he could.<\/li>
  • He wondered if she saw who he truly was, and if there was a part of him that sensed that he could be fully himself with her<\/strong>. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Style wanted to take a leap with Lisa. He put his PUA moves to the side and asked Lisa out for a traditional dinner date. She hesitated, but agreed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The date was harder than any pickup. Style had already tried all his routines on Lisa\u2014and they didn\u2019t work anyway\u2014so he was on his own. No techniques. No scripts. Just Style. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Style mustered the courage to ask Lisa why she\u2019d stood him up after her trip to Atlanta. Lisa told Style that he\u2019d been rude and aloof, and it had turned her off. Again, Style\u2019s seduction strategies had backfired with Lisa. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Style wanted more clarification on what had happened between them. He wanted to know if she was really running game on him, as he\u2019d suspected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The reality was that, although Lisa thought Style had acted rudely, she had missed him when he was in Miami. Lisa was hoping to catch up with Style when she invited him to the bar, but she was frustrated when Style had immediately clammed up around the two men and then promptly left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Making matters worse, the following day, Lisa\u2019s bandmate Sam had used Style\u2019s bathroom and seen the condom he\u2019d used with Isabel on their final night together. Sam told Lisa, and Lisa assumed things with Style were over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When Style asked Lisa to dinner, she had hesitated because she was fed up with his mixed signals. The only reason that she ultimately agreed was because he was asking her on a real date\u2014and because he seemed nervous, which she took as a sign that he genuinely liked her. So, Neil Strauss and Lisa had genuinely connected\u2014he just didn’t know how that worked anymore <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Finally, Style and Lisa had stopped playing the game: Style wasn\u2019t using lines, and they were both being up-front about their feelings for each other. <\/strong>They shared their first kiss, and then they spent the next few hours talking and kissing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    After that night, Style broke things off with all the women he\u2019d been seeing casually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Style and Lisa Finally Get Together<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    When Style had sex with Lisa, he discovered a new kind of intimacy. For the past two years, he\u2019d been using sex as a form of entertainment and a validation. But Style had such a deep connection with Lisa that it felt like the whole world stopped when they had sex. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One night, Style told Lisa everything about the community\u2014the PUAs, the tactics, even the acronyms. Lisa told Style that everything she liked about him was already part of him before joining the community; in fact, the game almost ruined their chances of getting together.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Style knew that Lisa was right, but he also recognized that, before joining the community, he wouldn\u2019t have had the confidence to pursue Lisa. So much of the game was artificial<\/strong>\u2014the scripted routines, the peacocking outfits, even the aliases\u2014but mastering the game had helped Style develop the inner confidence to be himself. <\/strong>Style could now graduate from the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Neil Strauss and Lisa Leveridge weren’t meant to have a long term relationship, but Lisa did help Style realize he had the confidence to leave <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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