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.
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.
Yeah same, I got no response. Was looking forward to goingNot sure if I can attend now due the meetups going private and me not having an account on the ROK forum. I sent an email anyway.
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.
I don't think there's any realistic way to actually completely shut down these events. As mentioned above some hosts are going forward anyways and a lot of them were privatized before the event was formally cancelled.Thwarted by the powers that be. ROK Metup has been cancelled -http://www.rooshv.com/announcement-the-meetup-on-february-6-is-cancelled
I enjoyed this video, and it was funny how he was making fun of the "Boom Clap" girl, but you can see that Roosh brings a lot of this stuff on himself. He even said in the video basically that even bad publicity is good publicity. For instance, he tells the girl to shut up because "The men are talking". Lol, that's the same line Andy Kaufman used to use to wind up the feminists when he was doing his "bad guy wrestler/wrestling women" bit. I'm sure it's intentional. The more outrage he can stir up, the more publicity he gets.
Dammit. This would have been a great way to make local non-AFC friends.Even if the events are cancelled, the manosphere got a massive burst of free advertisement = more men waking up and seeing there is another path in life
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.
Thanks for sharing the video. It was interesting.I enjoyed this video, and it was funny how he was making fun of the "Boom Clap" girl, but you can see that Roosh brings a lot of this stuff on himself. He even said in the video basically that even bad publicity is good publicity. For instance, he tells the girl to shut up because "The men are talking". Lol, that's the same line Andy Kaufman used to use to wind up the feminists when he was doing his "bad guy wrestler/wrestling women" bit. I'm sure it's intentional. The more outrage he can stir up, the more publicity he gets.