Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
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.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
That right there says how ignorant and STUPID you truly are. First off, you can't spell pedophile yet you throw it out there like some jealous 40 year old bitter old hag would, and 2nd off everyone in the world knows that there is nothing ****ing wrong with a 25 year old guy dating 19 and 20 year olds.......seriously, get the EFF out of here with that line of thinking!spetomas said:I It affects me badly especially if they are young 19-20, it makes me feel like a paedophile.
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.
Women are NOT the source of all your problems, nor are they the solution. Women are just human beings of the opposite sex. Do you feel badly emotionally everytime you see a cow? Of course not, a cow is just female cattle.Exactly, I want to get my life back together and to do it and I don't want to be affected so badly and emotionally everytime I see a good looking girl.
You neutralize it by not focusing so much on it. By making it out to be some huge mental block in your life, rather than just an annoying buzzing in your head, you are giving it power to control your life.spetomas said:That is why I would like a mental exercise or method to neutralise this, I'm sure a girl in the past would have helped me somewhat but it wasn't and is not meant to be. There must be some way to neutralise the invasive past thoughts, it is psychosomatic.
So stop posting 5,000,000 word posts on how much your life sucks and TAKE SOME ACTION.And nismo-4 you "Man the f**k up", I can tell from what you've written you'd be in a mental asylum if you had to take half the **** I have, real men don't do big talk they do action. CASE CLOSED.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Well, I'm certainly not going to tell you what you want to hear. If you want me to pat you on the head and say "There, there, I'm glad I didn't have your life", you're certainly not going to get it from me. You can remain in your crummy little hole and believe that everyone else had a better childhood than you.Desdinova I'm really not sure if you are helping
If you've got it all figured out and you really ARE good with women, then why are you wasting our time?Please don't talk to me about curing fear, I had a policy of approaching the hottest girl in every night club and asking to dance for several years even when I had depression, even when I felt sh1t
But wait... you just said that you could approach and dance with any woman in the club. And now it couldn't happen? Please define it. If you failed to close the deal, then it wasn't because of fate. It was because neither you nor the woman made the effort to take things to the next level. Now, if you actually decide to LEARN something here, you'll discover that the woman rarely takes things to the next level. They want the man to lead, and that is what you failed to do - LEAD.Now the whole package makes me feel like sh1t, looking at hot girls makes me feel like sh1t because it didn't and couldn't happen in the past
That's horse5hit. I lived in a crappy little house, worked two jobs, poor as hell, and I bunked in a pink room. None of that mattered as I still had women competing for me. They don't give a damn what job you have, how little you make, and where you live. All they care about is how you make them feel. Once you REALLY discover that, the rest of the garbage in your life won't matter.It can't happen now due to my situation and when I can make it possible it will be too late.
This isn't what it's really like out there. You've come to this conclusion based on the media and your own perception of women. The fact that you distort the reality of women shows your lack of experience with them.to have some pipsqueek judge me who is 18 and had nothing better to worry about than putting her make up on and how much money "daddy" paid for her new car. It makes me sick.
Then go fvck a guy and leave the women for us.Women were not meant for me
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.