"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
HB rate both of them
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"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
dustmuffin
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She looks loads better with makeup. That's a prime example of false advertising
BetterCallSaul
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The question is will she take a load.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
logicallefty
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I think they are the same person. I'm looking mostly at the eyebrows. Very distinct looking brows and the exact same on both women. Married woman looks more plain jane. But then after she got divorced she dolled herself up to go ride the c0ck carousel.
Who Dares Win
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And then they mock a bald guy wearing a wig...I wonder if I can also put a sock in my underwear to advertise myself even better
taiyuu_otoko
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If you sleep with girl on the right and wake up with girl on the left, do you get a refund?
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
MrJack
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They can't be the same, look at their noses. The one on the right forsure has a thinner nose also look at their facial structure. The one on the left has a more round chubbier face whereas the one on the right has a more chiseled face. Makeup is magic but it ain't THAT magical.
If anything the girl on the left put on a bunch of makeup and ALSO had herself photoshopped a bit on top of that to make her features subtley hotter.
This is exactly what they do for the magazines it's all photoshop.
zekko
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I do think they're the same person. Another possibility is identical twins, but I'm betting they're the same person.
You're right about the photoshop though, the girl on the right has a noticeably thinner face, and I noticed the nose as well. Also, the girl on the left looks like she has some swelling, acne, or some sort of bony prominence on her forehead where it's so shiny.
Or the other possibility is that these pictures may be several months apart, and she lost some weight during that time. That would go along with the married/divorced theme of the picture. She looks bloated in the first picture.
backseatjuan
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They both have the same grim look.
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
Same person. IO can see some digital artifacting around the nose and the eyebrows in the 2nd pic. She lost weight and might have gotten a nose job, but there is definitely some Photoshop going on here.
taiyuu_otoko
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Google image search reveals it's on a website showing before and after makeup pics.
http://fashionexprez.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-makeup-for-women/
http://fashionexprez.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-makeup-for-women/
"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.
taiyuu_otoko
Master Don Juan
It's like a fvcking horror movie. They Live.
