lorekeeper
Senior Don Juan
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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.
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.
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.
That right there is the Crux of the whole damn thing!!!! You my man, win the prize!Julius_Seizeher said:My favorite is the "women are stronger" BS reason for women to live longer than men.
They outlive us because they don't deal with half the pressure and responsibility that we do. They don't fukkin do anything! If these so-called "strong women" had to walk in a man's shoes for a DAY, they'd be sitting in the corner sucking their thumb at the end of it.
I would like to stick something in her big mouth to shut her up too!!!!teacha said:lol
that woman got OWNED big time at the end....'but i got 3 childrennnn'
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.
If you didn't make it all the way to the end, be glad you didn't. The pitch gets a LOT higher when he makes a point that she CAN'T possibly debate.Rollo Tomassi said:Sorry, I can't listen to that Fran Drescher yenta voice without getting the old eye twitch headache again,..