"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.
60+ harridans lament that men aren't interested in them anymore
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"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.
Mike32ct
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BaronOfHair
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Lots of those gals don't look horrid by any means, even if their beauty is 1/8th of a shadow of it's 19-20 year old self. Most of them could easily snag men in their 7th-9th decades of life. This isn't even a uniquely female problem:
99% of the male population are neither glamourous celebrities nor billionaires, thus our chances of ever boning the day's hottest starlets or/and supermodels are weaker than John Walsh's prospects of rocking his grandkids by Adam to sleep, anytime within THIS life
Yet, those of us in this said 99% still get on with life anyway
Westminster
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I'd rather not bother and be on my own if that's all I could get. At least then you've got your peace, you can get your sh!te together, and do your own thing. If ever the juice isn't worth the squeeze, it's with women that old.
You can have my age matches that I'm not interested in...
"I just moved here from Florida."
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.
Westminster
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Fine for recreational use but again I wouldn't want to be buying into anything permanent with a woman of that age. It's just not worth it.
You can have my 40 somethings...
I'll dip into the 20 somethings, as their male cohort sounds useless and utterly demoralised.
MatureDJ
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It's whenever a woman is old enough so that men no longer have the desire to pursue them with any level of zeal. Age 40 is a good round number for harridanhood.
MatureDJ
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There is just nothing evolutionarily positive about getting with a woman that has aged out of her reproductive years. That said, I could see myself being single father and being OK with an older woman, even a single mommy - but not as a childless bachelor, no no.
