"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Should I ever apologize to a girl?

AlphaNate

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I feel kinda bad about it, but I feel like apologizing is a sign of weakness.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Apologizing can show strength as well, as it means that you aren't controlled by your ego.

Also, only apologize if you KNOW you are in the wrong. If not, then never.
 
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If you've really been a **** apologizing on the spot is fine. Apologizing later is a bad idea because she would have snapped back into the emotions of the fight and just get mad at you again so it's a double fail.
 

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"What I did was against my values and principles and so as a man who wants to live forthrightly by those principles I hold deeply, I apologize to you."
 

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"What I did was against my values and principles and so as a man who wants to live forthrightly by those principles I hold deeply, I apologize to you."
Nice words but depends on your personal Style. I'd probably say I'm better than that and then make a quick apology saying why I was wrong.

Key is to make it quick and decisive and then let her do all the emoting.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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"Sorry" is an action word to me. I personally don't use it and it doesn't mean anything to me if someone says it to me. Actions mean more to me than words, if someone is truly sorry, they'll show me through their actions.
 

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"Sorry" is an action word to me. I personally don't use it and it doesn't mean anything to me if someone says it to me. Actions mean more to me than words, if someone is truly sorry, they'll show me through their actions.
So they will repair the damages...
 

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Apologize only if you're legitimately in the wrong, if you don't feel wrong and you can't see the line of logic that leads you to be in the wrong don't apologize

At the same time be careful to remain self aware so that you don't piss people off all the time and play victim when they get mad
 

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Apologize for what? It takes politicians 50+ years to give a statement of 'regret' to a country they previously destroyed through war or politics.

You want to apologize to a 27 year old girl who has slept with 6'2 hockey players and is looking to use you for her own personal benefit?

Got to love those Disney movies. o_O
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Admit when you're wrong, otherwise it raises the NPD red flag.

Respect is not weakness, quite the opposite.
 

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"Sorry" is an action word to me. I personally don't use it and it doesn't mean anything to me if someone says it to me. Actions mean more to me than words, if someone is truly sorry, they'll show me through their actions.
Agree, and this is actually what I ended up doing. I gave her a little extra attention. Never did apologize.
 
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