sylvester the cat
Master Don Juan
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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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Yup. Exactly. Keep busy.sylvester the cat said:Yes. Good idea. We'll see what happens. In the meantime, while that particular plate is cooking we now turn our attention to something else to avoid any obsessive and needy behaviour.
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.
^This.marmel75 said:Just text back "OK", let her hamster spin...if she couldn't stop thinking about you before watch what happens now, lol
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.
These girls have a sixth sense. She has not committed to you with the text, but won't allow you to commit elsewhere.sylvester the cat said:So tonight is the night and I just received this text from her:
Hey babe hope your good. tonight is not looking too promising I may be busy with my godson looking after him today until my cousin grabs him and not sure when that will be! I will keep you updated sexy mwa xx
Or I could be totally paranoid having been on this site too long and she is telling the truth.
Either way my response will be along the lines of: Ok. Made alternative plans. No problem.
Her telling the truth does not matter. Her making an excuse not to see you DOES matter.sylvester the cat said:Or I could be totally paranoid having been on this site too long and she is telling the truth.
Either way my response will be along the lines of: Ok. Made alternative plans. No problem.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Good job. Always make her play according to your own time and schedule. Not the other way around. Let us know how it goes. I'm genuinely interested.sylvester the cat said:Lol. Ok. Her response hot off the press:
Can't make tonight. I am gutted. Can I see you Tuesday?
I am going to follow your instruction to a T to see the result. I shall reply tomorrow declining Tuesday telling her that I will be in touch when we can meet next. Couple of days later I shall then give her a counter offer. To meet next Sunday. I have a day off the Monday after which suits me.
Sidenote - This latest message came in on yet another number. So far she has 3 different numbers!
It's a ploy, Especially if she goes into great detail about it and all that, don't fall for that crap one minute every girl who has ever told me they dream about me have all ended up seeing other guys on the side. I'm just saying my Attention-h0r radar is going off and from everything else I'd say don't get your hopes up on this one I give it another 2 weeks tops she is gonna disapearsylvester the cat said:she has just whatsapped me telling me how I was in her dream last night. Anyone who has read Freud would be familiar with his theory of dream 'wish-fulfillment'. Or it could be just another ploy to break radio silence.
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.