Episode 695 · August 25, 2025 · 20 min
How to Know You're in The FRIENDZONE: Compliments Girls Give You That Are Actually Rejections
About this episode
In this episode of The Unapologetic Man Podcast, Mark Sing dives into the subtle ways women give compliments that are actually veiled rejections—and how to recognize when you're stuck in the friend zone. He decodes the phrases women use to "let you down easy," why guys often read them the wrong way, and how to turn the tables so YOU end up being the one friendzoning HER.
Mark explains exactly what it means when a girl calls you "sweet," says "some girl will be lucky to have you," or insists "you're too good for me." More importantly, he lays out a step-by-step plan on how you can get yourself out of the friend zone—or better yet, avoid it altogether. With a mix of tactical advice, hard truths, and laugh-out-loud examples, this episode is your playbook for escaping the nice guy prison.
Key Takeaways:
- The hidden meaning behind compliments like "You're so sweet" and why they're really signs of rejection.
- Why phrases like "Some girl will be lucky to have you" or "You're too good for me" mean you're deep in the friend zone.
- The critical mistakes men make that put them there in the first place.
- How to flip the frame and friend zone her first to regain control and build attraction.
Key Timestamps: [00:00:00] – Introduction: You've Been Friendzoned, bro! [00:01:02] – Mark Sing's P*nis Reanimation Cream [00:03:31] – Women Use Compliments to Let You Down Gently [00:07:34] – How You Got In The Friendzone [00:08:27] – You Have to Friendzone Her First [00:10:59] – Date Other Girls! [00:12:25] – Show Her You Have Other Women Around You [00:16:00] – Reversals: Use Her Own Tricks Against Her [00:17:29] – Explanation of Pre-Emptive Friendzoning [00:18:42] – Summarizing The Signs You've Been Friendzoned
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Listen, if you think you're in the friend zone, you're in the friend zone, brother. If she's not willing to hang out with you, if she's not willing to get sexual with you, that's because you're in the friend zone prison and it's extremely hard to get yourself out of it. Girls will throw these like little compliments at you to try to let you down easy. First of all, boys, you're so sweet. No girl that wants to fuck you is going to tell you that you're sweet. I don't deserve a friend like you.
Girls will literally reject you by trying to compliment you. Ending up in the friend zone happens because you've telegraphed interest. You've shown you were attracted to her and she had to put the brakes on you. So what do you do to get out of the friend zone? The Unapologetic Man Podcast. Before listening to The Unapologetic Man Podcast, you were so horny that you'd fuck a snake if you could hold it straight. You were so horny that you'd have sex with the frothy armpit of a fat girl and Stairmaster.
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All jokes aside, gentlemen, today we have some really good content. Girls friendzoning your ass and you don't even know it. And they do this by certain compliments that they give you. If you're in the friendzone, I am going to tell you exactly how to get out of the friendzone. So that's going to be a bonus that I'm going to throw on the end of this episode, giving you a step-by-step process to essentially neutralize that girl who's basically friendzoned you. And she's complimenting you. She's telling you all these great things that you don't know your friendzone, but you are.
And I'm going to tell you how to get out of it, possibly getting her attracted to you or at the very least getting her respect. Because oftentimes, girls will friendzone dudes that they don't fucking respect. And a lot of you guys have been in that situation and it's extremely frustrating. Listen, if you think you're in the friendzone, you're in the friendzone, brother. If she's not willing to hang out with you, if she's not willing to get sexual with you, that's because you're in the friendzone prison and it's extremely hard to get yourself out of it.
But I'm going to tell you today, the step-by-step process to possibly get yourself out of it. Better yet, I'm going to show you what to do to make her the one who starts chasing you. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So first of all, boys, girls will throw these like little compliments at you to try to let you down easy. Because she knows you're attracted to her. She's not interested in you. So she doesn't want to hurt your feelings. So she tries to let you down with compliments.
But we as men are extremely thick-headed. We don't get the point many times. So we think that she's saying these nice things to us, thus giving us a better chance of turning her from a friend into a girlfriend. But really what she's doing is she's blowing you out so hard when the concussion hits, the pants are going to fly off your fucking legs. Because you're not taking the hint. You don't know what's going on. These are the things that girls say. First of all, boys, you're so sweet.
No girl that wants to fuck you is going to tell you that you're sweet. Maybe once in a blue moon. But most of the time, this means that you're sweet. You're a nice guy. You're doing her all kinds of favors, fluffing her feathers and blowing smoke up her ass as you take her out to all these nice dinners and buy her all this bullshit. She's saying you're sweet because she wants you to continue acting that way. She wants to reward your behavior. But essentially, you're in the friend zone.
A girl does not want a sweet boyfriend. Not all the time anyway. Do you think a girl would rather have a sweet guy or a guy that doesn't take her shit, shows her his boundaries, doesn't need her, and as I explained in a previous podcast about jerks, is willing to drop her at the flip of a switch? If you're in the nice guy prison, she's going to tell you things like you're nice, you're sweet, you're charming. And the next one, boys, is some girl is going to be lucky to meet you one day.
If you hear those words, a girl is going to be so lucky to be with you one day, you are essentially in the friend zone prison, brother, and it doesn't look like you're coming out. Listen to what she's saying. A different girl is going to be lucky to meet you someday or have you someday. That means it's not her. If she's not thinking about herself, if she's attracted to you and she is a friend, she's going to be saying things like, I wish I could meet a guy like you.
Why don't you have a girlfriend? Or, hey, what are you doing this weekend? Let's hang out. Or she's just going to fucking jump on your dick, which has been reanimated with the Mark Singh reanimation cream. And you're going to put that red-helmeted warrior back into battle because you're a fucking legend, bro. And I'm so proud of you. But if she's like, you're so sweet, you're so nice, or the next one, boys, and I absolutely hate this, I don't deserve a friend like you. Have you guys ever heard this?
I don't deserve to be treated like you, the way you're treating me. And I'm going to get to the one that I hate most in a moment. But this one is up there. I don't deserve a friend like you. And listen to what she did. She used the F word, as I call it. And we're going to flip the frame on her, the bonus that I'm going to give you coming up, to do exactly what she's trying to do to you, to her. But when she's like, I don't deserve a friend like you, I don't deserve this, I don't deserve to be in your company, or the one that I hate most of all, you are too good for me.
Girls will literally reject you by trying to compliment you and say, you're too good for me, Sam, Mike, Scott, whatever your name is. I don't deserve a guy like you. Okay, meanwhile, you're thinking, no, I'm not too good for you. And you might even say that in the friend zone prison, the complete beta cuck, dude. The cuck fluffer who might as well be on the porn set sucking a dude's dick before he gets it on with the woman because you are a beta cuck when you're in this situation.
Guys, do not let yourself get put in this kind of friend zone when a girl tells you things like, you're too good for me. You're going to make a girl really happy someday. Please, dude. Frickin' makes me gag when I just read this. You're so sweet. I don't deserve a friend like you. You're an amazing guy. You're going to make some girl really happy someday. Just be like, oh my hell, this girl is not attracted to me. And now what we're going to do is we're going to do steps to make her attracted to you.
First of all, boys, do not get yourself in the friend zone. Here's what you did wrong that put your ass in the friend zone. First of all, you were way too eager. You were way too needy. She knew immediately that you were attracted to her. She saw the warning signs that you're pursuing too hard, doing her too many favors, being too much of a nice guy. And she's invariably going to push you away because she's not interested. What do I always teach you guys in my coaching?
We do not show sexual interest in a woman in any way whatsoever in the beginning until she's attracted to us. The most we'll ever do is say, hey, I thought your acute had to come meet you, and that's the first opening line. But don't get it twisted. I'm not complimenting them at all until they start complimenting me. I am not chasing them at all during any phase of the process until they're massively chasing me. I am not expressing sexual interest at all until they are attracted to me.
So in my opinion, and here's the tip, you have to friend zone them in the beginning. In fact, boys, and I have done podcasts about this, you should friend zone every single chick you meet. When you first approach a girl, the connotation is, the frame is, she's a potential friend, and that's all she is. Even if you say, hey, I thought you were cute and had to come meet you, you are still screening her from the perspective of you're a potential friend. If you make the cut, if you prove to be attractive, and most importantly, boys, and this is in your own head, if she gets attracted to you, you'll consider dating her.
But every time I approach a girl, be it in the nightclub, the supermarket, Jamba Juice, Starbucks, wherever I happen to be, it's always, hey, strangers are friends I haven't met yet. Let's go see if this chick is cool, see what her personality is like. But I'm certainly not going into interactions, pursuing her, stating interest, and, and this is the worst thing you could do, giving her compliments, doing her favors, being a beta cuck, that's going to be put in the friend zone. So what do you do to get out of the friend zone?
Friend zone her. You use the F word towards her. Call her a friend. Say the same shit that they say to you. You're going to make a guy happy someday. I'm not good enough for you. I'm a complete loser, dude. I fart in my sleep. I have gas with oily discharge, thanks to Mark Singh's penis reanimation cream. And I'm a fucking sea donkey. You know how big my dick is? It's an inch long. I call it the angry inch. And then I'll like poker in the clavicle with my thumb and be like, the angry inch is going to get you.
Watch out. I am disqualifying myself rather than trying to qualify myself. Never, boys, under any circumstance, try to sell yourself to a woman. Push her away. Friend zone her. Tell her that she's sweet. Tell her one day she's going to make a guy really happy. Some guy out there is super stoked. Can you imagine, Sarah, right now, there's a dude out there who's probably your future husband. I wonder who he is. He's probably like four foot two, got a peg leg, freaking blonde mullet with a big old blonde beard, like one of those trolls from Lord of the Rings.
That's what he looks like. And she's like, screw you. You're pushing her away. You're showing her that you don't need her to be attracted to you, which is attractive. And that's what's so cool about this game is it's extremely counterintuitive. Pushing a girl away, putting her in the friend zone, saying the same shit to her. You're so sweet. You're going to make a guy happy one day is going to get her attracted to you. The next step, boys, is date other girls. Now, somebody listening who doesn't know shit about how female attraction actually works is going to leave me a hate comment on Spotify or Instagram or even iTunes and be like, seriously, you're trying to attract a girl by dating other girls, by talking about other girls, by having hot girlfriends.
My answer to that unequivocally is yes. Do not try to coach on something you know nothing about, because if you don't know that that works, then you don't know shit about female attraction, especially if you're a woman listening, please don't email me saying, oh, you're wrong. You're a piece of shit. Listen, hate the game. Don't hate the messenger. This is how it works. It's not my fault that through 200,000 years of evolution, women are designed this way to be attracted to men who other women are attracted to.
It's a cognitive shortcut, evolutionarily wired into female psychology to speed up the vetting process. When a woman sees that a man is attractive to other women, she will unconsciously and involuntarily become attracted to that guy. So a girl kind of friendzones you, says some shit like, oh, you're so sweet, or you'll make a girl happy one day. Just be like, oh my God, here we go. Friendzoner ass. Use the F word, first of all. Secondly, say, dude, you're going to make a guy happy someday. Next, talk about other girls.
Yes, that you're dating. Show girls on your Instagram page. Talk about your model friend who did XYZ thing, and you're so embarrassed for her. You can't believe she did that. She freaking grabbed her ankles and farted at the bouncer the other night in front of the nightclub. It was hilarious and disgusting at the same time, because she accidentally got some Mark same penis reanimation cream on her hand when she was putting it on me, and it made her have gas with oily discharge. And so when she farted, she actually shart, which is a shit and a fart mixed into one, launched onto the bouncer's foot.
It was horribly embarrassing. But she's a model, so she just laughed it off. And you guys see what I'm doing. I'm completely making this up off the top of my head. But the point is, you have hot friends. These girls are all attracted to you. You don't know what to do to keep them at arm's length. Because you're super picky, so you've put all these girls in the friend zone. Next tip, if a girl friend zones your ass, be like, cool, she's a friend. Call her a friend.
Say, she's going to make some guy really happy one day. Show her that you're hanging out with other hot girls. And ask her advice about a girl that you're dating. Even if, yes, you have to lie a little bit. Now, this goes down to your own morals. But if you're willing to stretch the truth a little bit, and don't get it twisted, everybody stretches the truth of the dating space. If you're willing to stretch the truth, say, hey, I'm dating a girl right now. She's really pretty.
In fact, she models on the side. She's like a runway model. She's kind of full of herself. But she will not stop texting me. She texts me at like 2 a.m. Hey, quick question for you. She texts me in the morning, the old good morning text. She texts me at night, the old good night text. How do I put this girl on ice? And you're literally asking this girl who friend zoned you, who you want to get attracted to you, how to put this hot girl that you're dating on ice, how to slow her down.
Did you guys ever see that clip? It's being shown on Instagram a lot lately. But it's a movie where this super hot blonde girl walks by this guy who's new to this office. And he's sitting down at a couch with this other like older guy who's an older manager. And the girl walks by and he's like, hey, Kelly, how are you? And the girl looks at him like, my name's not Kelly. She doesn't say that, but she just looks at him like, what the fuck? And then the guy next to him says, dude, her name's not Kelly.
What are you doing? And he says, well, if I say, hey, Kelly, how are you doing enough time? She's eventually going to come up to me and say, my name's not Kelly. It's Amy. And he'll be like, oh, my bad. You look like this girl I was dating before who I didn't text back. And I thought maybe she was mad at me about it. My mistake. Anyway, nice to meet you, Amy. Now, Amy is going to be thinking the whole time, oh, he dated a girl as hot as I am.
And he rejected her. Then she's going to unconsciously want to prove herself to him, thus making that technique work. When I first saw that movie, I was like, yeah, that would work, dude. That's an awesome technique. It's kind of the same thing. Now, in my previous episode, I talked about the game, right? How you have to play the game. It's just how it is. Don't get it twisted. Girls are playing games, too. Well, in that game, as I spoke about, you have to decide your own morals when it comes to this thing.
Are you willing to stretch the truth a little bit? If you are, I can tell you, boys, you talking to a girl about another girl that you're dating and saying that she's kind of turning into a stalker Texas Ranger. She's a little bit obsessed. And you want to know how to back her down. And she's really attractive. Oh, my God, guys. That's like pouring gasoline onto a fire of her attraction for you. So if you've been friend-zoned, and don't get it twisted, if you think you're in the friend-zone, you're in the friend-zone, bro.
Very basic. But if she says, you're so sweet. You're too good for me. I don't deserve a friend like you and all that bullshit where you're in the friend-zone. You have to push harder and friend-zone her ass. Tell her, I don't deserve a friend like you. You're so sweet. You're going to make some guy happy one day. Use the F word all the time. Say that she's a friend. Talk about other girls. Show girls on your Instagram page and even ask her advice about a girl who you're dating, who's super hot.
And you have to be subtle, right? You could come off a little bit try-hard, or it could be very obvious you're bullshitting. But if you're good at this, you can act your way through it. A girl who's super hot. She's a model. She's full of herself who won't leave you the fuck alone. Like she's stalking your dog and she's leaving the fucking ladder on the side of your garage. And you're like, Kelly, put it back in the garage. Like, I'm cool for you to stalk me, to be in my backyard with the ghillie suit as you watch me in my window applying my twice-daily Mark Singh penis reanimation cream.
But it's getting a little bit creepy. And the fact that you're leaving the ladder outside resting on the garage is kind of disrespectful. Put it back in the garage like all the other girls do. I got fucking 10 stalkers. They're all on a schedule. Your time is Tuesday at 8 p.m. from 8 to 10. You could get in your ghillie suit. You could get out your binoculars and watch me a little bit. But slow down on the old ladder, dude. Put it back in the garage. That's the way you fuck with these girls.
Show them that you have options. You are an attractive man. You have many women in your life. And you don't need this chick. She's a friend. You friendzone her. I call this preemptive friendzoning. Friendzone them before they can friendzone you. And don't get it twisted, boys. Just because you friendzone a girl, it doesn't mean that you guys don't have potential to date later. How many people do you know that started as friends? They were best friends in high school and then in college. They decided they'd start dating.
This happens all the time. So to begin by friendzoning them is actually a powerful technique that I do all the time. That's my frame when I first meet a girl. You're a friend. And I'll say that in the first conversation. Hey, if we're going to be friends, you need to stop wearing yellow tops with black pants. My dad was killed by a girl wearing a yellow top and black pants. And it just kind of fucks me up psychologically. So you need to change your clothes, friendo.
And that's what you do. You friendzone them. Then they get attracted to you. So you don't end up in the friendzone. Ending up in the friendzone happens because you've telegraphed interest. You've shown you were attracted to her. And she had to put the brakes on you by saying, hey, I'm not really interested. And she'll say nice things like, you're so sweet. You're going to make a girl happy one day. You're too good for me. These are signs that you're not going to get to use Mark Singh's penis reanimation cream and get your Spartan into her squishminton because you've been friendzoned.
The only move is to pull back, friendzone her. And I suggest doing this with any and all women in the beginning. This shit works. So gentlemen, I super appreciate you listening. As I mentioned, I don't have sponsors on this show because first of all, it's annoying as fuck. Like some guy comes on and he's like, do you need Mark Singh's penis reanimation cream or do you need some erectile dysfunction pills? People hit me up literally five times a day for sponsorships. And I say no, because I want to keep this podcast clean and I want to get straight to the point for you guys.
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