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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
This has never occurred with me and I have dated many. Sounds like stuff people get from reading a post from one person and think it happens all the time.The main reason is she expects you to spend money on her kid(s)!
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.
It’s happened to me 3 times before actually.This has never occurred with me and I have dated many. Sounds like stuff people get from reading a post from one person and think it happens all the time.
Seems like you need to screen better.It’s happened to me 3 times before actually.
People don’t always show their true colors up front.Seems like you need to screen better.
That's why you have to learn to ask unrelated questions that seemingly have nothing to do with what you are trying to learn but are directly related.People don’t always show their true colors up front.
Girls are experts at this. Some can keep up the appearance for months even years until the ring on the finger... comes along offer by some sad sod of a gun.People don’t always show their true colors up front.
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.
Should've paid attention to her stretch marks and lifeless tits.People don’t always show their true colors up front.
Like this?Should've paid attention to her stretch marks and lifeless tits.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
She looks like she might be physically attractive at 33. 33 is still somewhat young. 40-45 year old men would go wild for someone 33. Based on looks alone, she could get interest from men 33-37 and even some horny younger men.View attachment 10245
Three different men for her children, mental issues and takes pharma drugs, twice divorced, post wall and even then she thinks she can put up demands for a high value guy and on top of that; thinks that men will sign up for the "application" to be a walking wallet.
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Just wow...
The delusion is real gents.
But on the flipside; it seems that many women seem to operate like this and has no real connection to the earth they ware walking on.
Sadly that is probably very true. Some thirsty dudes will likely sell their soul and fill out the "application" and hope to "get the job".Despite all her baggage, there will be no shortage of men who will swipe right on her and no shortage of men who will agree to a date with her.
Lol!!!! I’ve hooked up with a few and it was like a script. Every one acted the same.... suddenly become obsessed with fitness... try to portray themselves as an amazing potential wife/mom. Sending pics of amazing food.... always loves wine.
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.