Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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Felix9901

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Let me give you some examples...

You may be really good at opening, but maybe you go into interview mode and the girl loses interest.

You may be really good at getting phone numbers, but then you get ghosted or she flakes on the date.

You may be really good at keeping the conversation going, but you never escalate towards getting physical.

You don't REALLY know what your problem is until you go out there and run into it a couple of times. That's why I'm saying that you won't recall most of the material you're studying because you don't even know what's important to know about yourself yet.
I get it, well, put it that way, I'd say one problem now:
I'm very good at keeping the conversation going while I'm in a group of people, i could even be the center of attention, but when i go alone with a girl my confidence gets disabled because i don't know what to say, i try to keep things the more directly i can so when i I'm alone with girls most of the job is already done and i have to just do simple things like kissing or advancing without saying a word. Of course it limits my amount of success.
 

"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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but when i go alone with a girl my confidence gets disabled because i don't know what to say, i try to keep things the more directly i can so when i I'm alone with girls, most of the job is already done and i have to just do simple things like kissing or advancing without saying a word.
I don't get it...you're saying you lose confidence when you're alone with a girl...but also saying that most of your job is already done at that point, so all you need to do is escalate, which is correct.

So where's the problem?
 
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