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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Could be. His net worth is around 12 million.He looks pretty good for 93.
Maybe they're getting married so she can inherit his pension? I have no idea how it works.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
I don't think buzz cares... as long as he gets his needs met, it's only money. Can't take it with you after all...Gold digger
It’s sad tho. Knowing she’s only with him to feed off his carcass when he’s goneI don't think buzz cares... as long as he gets his needs met, it's only money. Can't take it with you after all...
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.
She's 63 (only 30 years younger) and a medical doctor. She probably has a decent nest egg even without Buzz Aldrin.Gold digger
I'm sure he's fine with her going down on him while he watches matlock (or whatever old people are watching now) while yelling at kids to get off his lawn. Wouldn't we all be so lucky at such an old age. hahahahahahIt’s sad tho. Knowing she’s only with him to feed off his carcass when he’s gone
Old people want what they want. Maybe his values do not align with escorts, but do with large age gap marriages with a younger bride that seems somewhat intelligent. I don't fault the man.If he's fine with the transactional nature of it, I don't see why he wouldn't just get high dollar escorts. Seems it would still be cheaper, they'd be younger, and not the same one...
Widow pensions can go on for a LONG time.He looks pretty good for 93.
Maybe they're getting married so she can inherit his pension? I have no idea how it works.
That is the reason she said "Yes"Could be. His net worth is around 12 million.
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.
It’s just beginning for Annuitycels.Widow pensions can go on for a LONG time.![]()
Maybe I should start using PensionGame ("at your age, you'll be receiving my SS pension until the 22nd Century")?![]()