"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Great quote I read this week

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I've been doing physical therapy for a very bad case of tennis elbow. Anyways, I see this on a dry erase board while doing cupping and dry needling in therapy this week:

"Characterize people based on their actions and you will rarely be fooled by their words".


Think about that.

Happy Hunting
 

"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.

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It's very true, the more atteactive a woman is the mkre red flags we let slide.

We end up wondering where things went wrong whwn it was right in front of us all along
did you copy that or make it up. thats good.
 

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That’s a very good one. Words don’t mean much to me compared to actions, and in most cases I’m only looking at actions. That’s where the truth is.
 

"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.

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That's a great phrase. Throughout my life, this has led to some unexpected disappointments but I wouldn't have it any other way. It's also helped to expose the dead wood in my life and reduce stress.

I wasn't aware of the tennis elbow. Good luck on a speedy recovery.
 

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wtf is this crap?

Just bust nuts man. I busted two today. You gotta get to the point where you busting at least 9 nuts a day to be a real man. I'm just under a quarter of the way there. Start the process today.
 

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Sometimes I like applying this to myself.

Assign less importance to the useless clutter in my head, more on what I do.
 

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It's very true, the more atteactive a woman is the mkre red flags we let slide.

We end up wondering where things went wrong whwn it was right in front of us all along
Or the more desperate we are. Lets face it, a lot of guys or all guys have been in situation where we really liked a girl but we didn't have many other options we liked as much.. I definitely let my fair share of red flags slide.. and it cost me in som eways.
 

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Or the more desperate we are. Lets face it, a lot of guys or all guys have been in situation where we really liked a girl but we didn't have many other options we liked as much.. I definitely let my fair share of red flags slide.. and it cost me in som eways.
Exactly, scarcity mentality. We realy like her because we feel we cant get something better even though we can
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Exactly, scarcity mentality. We realy like her because we feel we cant get something better even though we can
Or she just has so much of our attention in the moment because she's the one who's giving us what we need, sexually, passionately, etc

Ie: its so hard to look past someone when we're super focused on them
 

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I've been doing physical therapy for a very bad case of tennis elbow. Anyways, I see this on a dry erase board while doing cupping and dry needling in therapy this week:

"Characterize people based on their actions and you will rarely be fooled by their words".


Think about that.

Happy Hunting
It's especially true with women, whose words tend to be lies 85% of the time
 

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“Everybody pities the weak, jealousy you have to earn.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger.
 

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I remember that...(smh)...At 70 some years old Arnold is still solid and in great shape so not even a running flying drop-kick could topple him...Bet the clown that did it got tuned up good tho.
 

"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.

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As men, our words are actions, the second they are anything other than actions, you are no longer competitive in the hierarchy of men... This means some damn tough choices sometimes, but it also means your reputation alone will fight and win you battles you'd have to participate in otherwise.
 

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"Learn to appreciate what you have before time makes you appreciate what you had".
 

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My favorite quote, that pertains to dating comes from the movie “The Dish”.

“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

I’ve heard that sentiment in other forms but that quote says it so nicely, and it is oh so true.
 

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My favorite quote, that pertains to dating comes from the movie “The Dish”.

“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

I’ve heard that sentiment in other forms but that quote says it so nicely, and it is oh so true.
Nice. Sort of similar to

"We must suffer one of two things: the pain of regret or the pain of self-discipline. The difference being that self-discipline weighs ounces where regret weighs tons."

For a more relevant context to dating, specifically approaching & escalating with women, you could replace the word self-discipline with rejection.
 

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If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late. If you're late, you're forgotten- My college baseball coach

PS- I'm normally late. Especially for dates
 

"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.

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