Lol, I'm sure we should we having this discussion outside of this section, in fact, prob a good idea to do searches on "escalation" and "comfort" and "LJBF".
But basically, to sum it up mate, guys normally get LJBFed because they don't a) build attraction, and/or b) ESCALATE.
So do your attraction, build your comfort, just make you smoothly escalate throughout. If you never take the risk to escalate, then yes all your comfort will go to waste.
FYI escalating is always a risk (just like approaching), that's what makes it so much fun
Soul