Dude, you just described many years of my dating life. I had ambivalent women coming out of every orifice. That's when you need to step back and start wondering how much is you vs them.
I take inspiration from you, Dusan.

Yeah, the employment situation is in the crapper where you are, but you're swimming up to your balls in available hooch.
I think Andries is speaking less about being the "lead" as much as it is compartmentalizing what a relationship with a woman means to you and how your own sense of self becomes much stronger than that. Only you allow yourself to feel like shit.
Great story about the hookup with the girl attached to the long-distance bf, and you're right. I mean, I think you can never tell what lies behind the façade of some people. A girl has needs and urges, and sometimes she's not all too proud of her own behavior. But that doesn't mean she isn't trying to walk a narrow road. Nor does it mean she isn't interested in straying.
You can't always be sure how freaky people are under the covers we normally show publicly.