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.
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.
You have some vitriol towards the US. The fact that you introduced nationalism (actually lack thereof) into this thread typifies your animosity towards the US.BigJimbo said:
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Not in Japan, brother. Bored, married, housewives are some of the best gems around. Discreet, skilled, and extremely appreciative of the attention. And usually psycho, but that's another story.Trader said:
http://thetimesofusa.com/466/2010/t...n-vs-tiger-woods-net-worth-1-billion-usd.html
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.
Do you believe in the holy Bible? (not talking about the dj bible).Poonani Maker said:
She deserves all his live's hard work because he put his dyck in another woman?? Wow! Nice thinking!Poonani Maker said:
Dude, please!
I think you've misread the Bible. And completely missed out the section on adultery.f283000 said:
CuriousGirl said:
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.
Well it's all relative, if that's half his worth and she gave up half her life for him then yeah I'd say thats fair. Nobody need $750 million dollars though.Rescue Mission said:
You don't know the Bible. But anyway i'm not here to teach you about it that's something only your husband is supposed to do.CuriousGirl said:
They were married for six years. I'm uncertain what you meant by "half" one's life. Certainly not age mathematics, but in what other regard? If you meant by forgoing her modeling career to raise children, then why should half his worth be equitable? She was a model and, let's be honest, wasn't, despite any delusions in her mind, instrumental towards his career. Without her, the pinnacles of his athletic career would have still been achieved, and were achieved. In fact, his career rocketed to its highest accomplishments between 1999-2002, prior to his marriage in 2003, and his career slipped in the first few years of marriage. So, regardless of her commitment into him, equitable fairness is without merit.
It was his fault, I agree, but don't think for a second she didn't know, while being his girlfriend, while being his fiance, while being his wife, this would happen. With countless endless stream of women trying to ride up to his attention, in the back of her mind she knew. She also knew she would also hit the lottery windfall because of it. It takes tu tu tango. In the words of the polemic economist Michael Noer, "Wives, in truth, are superior to whøres in the economist's sense of being a good whose consumption increases as income rises—like fine wine. This may explain why prostitution is less common in wealthier countries. But the implication remains that wives and whøres are—if not exactly like Coke and Pepsi—something akin to champagne and beer. The same sort of thing."
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.