"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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Looking for info on hernia recovery or repair. What is your experience?
 

"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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Looking for info on hernia recovery or repair. What is your experience?
I've never had one but I have known people that have and got those meshes and have had issues with them, have had to get them redone/replaced or have had to have other surgeries to repair it more than once. It's a b!tch, especially for guys since our abdominal walls are naturally weaker than women due to them giving birth.

It's a tough area...literally use your core for pretty much everything you do so it's not like that area can effectively ever really rest so to speak.

Also muscles typically heal weaker and will be more susceptible to re-occuring, so you will need to be doing strengthening exercises regularly to help the area get stronger to mitigate this as much as possible.
 

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I've never had one but I have known people that have and got those meshes and have had issues with them, have had to get them redone/replaced or have had to have other surgeries to repair it more than once. It's a b!tch, especially for guys since our abdominal walls are naturally weaker than women due to them giving birth.

It's a tough area...literally use your core for pretty much everything you do so it's not like that area can effectively ever really rest so to speak.

Also muscles typically heal weaker and will be more susceptible to re-occuring, so you will need to be doing strengthening exercises regularly to help the area get stronger to mitigate this as much as possible.
Good to know about those meshes.
 

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I will second the warnings about mesh, I have known several men and women who have had complications with them. I have also seen patients develop sepsis from mesh implants that requires life support just to stabilize them enough to go into surgery.
 
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