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.
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.
And this response forces her into two outcomes - she either gives in due to your confident persistence, or you don't become friends since there are no benefits.Brosy said:Or just "nah", then never speak to her again.
If you ever hear those words she is not fit for the purpose you intended. If you WANTED to be friends with her you'd never have heard those words in the first place.
As others have said in recent posts, she is basically saying, "it's never going to happen but I want you to orbit me for my own self esteem"
I'd rather be delusional then average, thanks.Brosy said:You're delusional mate.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
when you get that line from a girl, it's a sinker.doesn't matter how you respond to her, your ship will capsize.nroug7 said:Sure, are you ready to discuss the benefits?