The feeling of rejection is inherently complicated and not everyone accepts it! Speaking specifically about relationships, rejection is subtle because it hurts sensitive people, causing the rejected person to react negatively.
This is common in many men (not all, of course), who seem to take rejection as an insult and react negatively or take it as a challenge. In a very general way this is not so common among women, who usually take a passive or "resigned" position in this situation; for dignity, we tend to take a step back when we see that the other person is not taking us seriously.
According to a study conducted by Kansas State University researchers, men tend to react more hostilely to rejection than women. This is because their masculine pride is affected by seeing that a woman does not want anything from them. Or it triggers some sort of hunting instinct, as a challenge to prove to himself that he can somehow get that woman.
If we look at it this way many things become clear, for example, that in our society it is acceptable for a man to reject, denigrate or condition a woman based on her appearance, while a woman cannot do the same to a man without this answer with insistence or offense.
The above study has shown, through an experiment, that men react by becoming more assertive when they are rejected because their ego feels humiliated. This was demonstrated when an experiment was conducted in which 60 women and 60 men lived together and the reactions of "rejection" were evaluated.
So, you know, if a man becomes persistent after rejecting her, it could be that his interest in you was actually a self-centered need and not so much an honest interest.
