"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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After this event, how should I play it...

Levler

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I'm gonna be as brief as possible. I'm a freshman at college and yesterday we had this big party for all the new freshmens. In our class there's a girl I find kind of sexy (HB7), and when she and our class stood around a table I pulled over and tried to kiss her, but she didn't kiss me back so I started kissing her on the neck maybe 2-3 times. She said "I'm not gonna kiss with you" all the time with a straight face and she didn't look at me, just straight forward.

Anyway, afterwards she was still there and she didn't seemed to be scared. People from class was more shocked than her, haha. I'm gonna meet her again in a couple of days, how should I play it?

Thanks.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Diaforetikos

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I'm kinda lost. Are you asking us how to get her or asking how to avoid an awkward situation.

In either case, I don't have enough information to actually give you sound advice.

Moar detales pwees!
 

Levler

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Diaforetikos said:
I'm kinda lost. Are you asking us how to get her or asking how to avoid an awkward situation.

In either case, I don't have enough information to actually give you sound advice.

Moar detales pwees!
The awkard situation isn't gonna come up, at least not for me - I just followed my impulse. :) But the thing is, yesterday was our last night as a class together, so I wasn't afraid to try hard. Now she definitely know I like her, but what do you guys she think after her reaction - i.e didn't get freaked out by my move on her? And yes, I would like some advice on how to get her, because now there's some opportunity for us to have som alone-time.
 

search1ng

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thought she didn't want you?

why the fck are you even seeing her?

....

She didn't react probably meant she thought you were a creep.

... i still don't understand why you're seeing her.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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