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.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
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.
Julius_Seizeher said:Guys... they're all losers. I felt like a loser just watching 5 minutes of it.
A bunch of bums (supposedly grown men and women) who sleep til noon everyday, then eat trash food and go tanning, hit the gym, then take a nap before going to a club again. These people are fvcking WORTHLESS!
Look, the OP is from England, too. I absolutely DESPISE the fact that these POS people are depicted as Americans to the rest of the world.
Kerpal said:Are you sure? I don't recall him getting laid once the entire season. He just seems like a total loser also.
Pauly D and Vinny seemed pretty cool.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
well said...Rescue Mission said:so what?
They are living their life the way THEY want to, and THEY ENJOY IT! Do you have a problem with that? Do you want to control how these people live to make sure that they live by YOUR standards?
Do you see the problem with your thinking? It's not up to YOU to decide how someone else lives their life.
From what I saw on that show, these people are having tons of fun living life the way they live it - who is anyone to complain about that????
Rescue Mission said:so what?
They are living their life the way THEY want to, and THEY ENJOY IT! Do you have a problem with that? Do you want to control how these people live to make sure that they live by YOUR standards?
Do you see the problem with your thinking? It's not up to YOU to decide how someone else lives their life.
From what I saw on that show, these people are having tons of fun living life the way they live it - who is anyone to complain about that????
What? Are they really that old? That does put a bit of a different spin on things. I had assumed they were all around 22-24. As you say, they need to get their lives in order fairly quickly.They're also a bunch of 30 year old guys trying ot be 20 year olds with no lives and are losers.
zekko said:What? Are they really that old? That does put a bit of a different spin on things. I had assumed they were all around 22-24. As you say, they need to get their lives in order fairly quickly.
But I still think their lives resemble a lot of the advice given on this forum: Bulk up, have good self esteem, go to clubs, pick up random girls.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Mister T said:They're also a bunch of 30 year old guys trying ot be 20 year olds with no lives and are losers.
One wants to be or is a DJ the other wants to be a Veterinary Tech, the other was a sociology major ---- in other words in 2-3 more years their stupidity is going to cost them for the rest of their lives ha ha.
And you're a loser with no life. Feel free to kiss my :moon: at any point!Rescue Mission said:I swear, you are a complete ignorant fool.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.