"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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An Unsurprising Truth: Nurses Are The Most Common Cheaters

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This is my first time viewing this guys content but I noticed the video on my feed and thought I would post it here since I'm sure most of our mature men here have had a similar experience.

 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

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.

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I don't know about cheating, but they are more sexually active than most career groups. This could have to do with relative ages and that RNs are mostly female, so it's a concentration of fertile, young, relatively well-paid women, meaning examining their behavior is easy.

My POV as a healthcare practitioner:
It has a lot to do with spending long hours working in very close quarters with other clinicians, unsupervised. It's also related to bonding over challenging situations, you have no one but each other to share emotions within these situations; again, it creates emotional bonds, which often result in physical ones. Think about it - she's seen you bring people back from the dead, or you've done it together - there's a level of trust there that cannot be achieved in any other way.
 
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I don't know about cheating, but they are more sexually active than most career groups. This could have to do with relative ages and that RNs are mostly female, so it's a concentration of fertile, young, relatively well-paid women, meaning examining their behavior is easy.

My POV as a healthcare practitioner:
It has a lot to do with spending long hours working in very close quarters with other clinicians, unsupervised. It's also related to bonding over challenging situations, you have no one but each other to share emotions within these situations; again, it creates emotional bonds, which often result in physical ones. Think about it - she's seen you bring people back from the dead, or you've done it together - there's a level of trust there that cannot be achieved in any other way.
Thats a great point, the career sample is very likely almost exclusively women
 

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I don't know about cheating, but they are more sexually active than most career groups. This could have to do with relative ages and that RNs are mostly female, so it's a concentration of fertile, young, relatively well-paid women, meaning examining their behavior is easy.

My POV as a healthcare practitioner:
It has a lot to do with spending long hours working in very close quarters with other clinicians, unsupervised. It's also related to bonding over challenging situations, you have no one but each other to share emotions within these situations; again, it creates emotional bonds, which often result in physical ones. Think about it - she's seen you bring people back from the dead, or you've done it together - there's a level of trust there that cannot be achieved in any other way.
RN’s are who I deal with mostly via work.
 

"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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