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.
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 can 2nd that, probably worse than saying ''I Love You''. This is a NO, NO.K.Pez said:Never say: "Obviously I am more attracted to you than you are to me"
One of my buddies said this to a girl he was trying to get with and my jaw dropped. This is an instant deal breaker.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
Wrong. Try "I love you dearly!"Nutz said:0. "I like you."
No single phrase will destroy a woman's attraction for a man better than this one.
Does that count for "not believing in love?", "Not wanting children?", "Only being in a relationship for sex?" and last and by no means least "wanting to maintain a bachleor lifestyle?". If so, then that's explains all of my problems.f283000 said:here is 1 more
NEVER SAY YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN MARRIAGE: It's fine if you don't and it's ok if you say this to your buddies, just don't ever say this where women might hear you. Try to keep this little belief of yours to yourself for your own good.
Say you've diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery.Originally Posted by Energizer
Does that count for "not believing in love?", "Not wanting children?", "Only being in a relationship for sex?" and last and by no means least "wanting to maintain a bachleor lifestyle?". If so, then that's explains all of my problems.
YES...it counts for "not believing in love"!!!
When it comes to love, you need not believe the hype...for some reason, people in western society choose to remain blind, thinking love is "the reason" for living, that love makes their world go 'round...well, it ain't!
CASH makes the world go 'round baby...
The simple truth is, love doesn't matter that much.
Espi said:LOVE is a hyperbole, a post-modern myth...money isn't everything, but it's the key to happiness...
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.
Say you've diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery.Originally Posted by Energizer
Does that count for "not believing in love?", "Not wanting children?", "Only being in a relationship for sex?" and last and by no means least "wanting to maintain a bachleor lifestyle?". If so, then that's explains all of my problems.
YES...it counts for "not believing in love"!!!
When it comes to love, you need not believe the hype...for some reason, people in western society choose to remain blind, thinking love is "the reason" for living, that love makes their world go 'round...well, it ain't!
CASH makes the world go 'round baby...
The simple truth is, love doesn't matter that much.
Someone that loves you sticks with you through the hard times and supports you.Your girlfriend may LOVE you...but she LOVES MONEY, too. If you lose your job...you lose money...and then you lose your GF...or your wife...and you may love her to death...but if you're broke...you lose her.
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
It's close to 60% now, with (IIRC) the vast majority initiated by women. The good news is that if you drill into the data, the majority of 1st marriages actually stay married still. So wait until you're sure and pick a woman who's young and always been single, if you must propose.Espi said:... remember this: 50 per cent of marraiges end in divorce...and the men who are able to stay married probably cheat on their wives...and most men that I know are miserable being married...
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.