You say in effect, I don t accept you at all. You look so super that if I d accept you, you probably wouldn t accept poor slob me. You can say, You seem so sophisticated and adjusted to be-ing single that I feel very vulnerable and uncomfortable with you because this going out is all new to me. But whether you like it or not, you have an expiration date. In time rejection, where we have been partially accepted for a while, we are later rejected.
Every relationship has an expiration date.
You see somebody who looks super across the dance floor. You go over, you dance. It was not what you thought. You accepted them to dance but never ask again. All relationships have an expiration date.