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.
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.
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.
Yeah I was about to say the same thing. A bit like rape, when we see a hot chick we really want to shag her, but don't just go to her and do it due to consequences. Some people just have a low tolerance level and/or don't care about it, and commit the crime(s) anyway.Bvbidd said:I'm sure you all want to sometimes. We just don't do it, due to the consquences.
I was waiting for someone to post this. Talk about being frustrated over an ex and a bunch of guys trying to be AMOGs by putting him down. Add to that the guy's immaturity and lack of having a psychological analysis prior to being accepted into the academy and you have a recipe for disaster.Last Man Standing said:
But you know what, the sad part about it is that there are two sides to the coin. There was no respect from the other group of people and especially the woman. It is why people easily fly off the handle those days because respect is not there (people today mistake respect for a sign of weakness and are more immature then previous generations) and they use violence to gain respect. If the woman was respectable and the people in the party wouldn't have egged this cop on but rather left them alone for a moment to solve their own damn problems, it might not have come to this.Francisco d'Anconia said:
I still question his need to pursue the girl, it was his ex. They had broken up several times over the years but it seems that one-itis is a b1tch so shake even if you are in a career which you believe makes you powerful.DJDamage said: