You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
ntssv said:peeled one, bite, nope. It's not gonna happen. The white part is ok but the yellow part is so fvcking dry. It reminds me of pvssy juice that's on the virge of crustation.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
semag said:why don't you crack 4 or 5 into your whey shake. Wham!
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.
That's a myth. Saturated and trans fat raises your cholesterol, not ingested cholesterol.Macgyver said:I dunno about these people eating more than 5-7 eggs per week, seems like they're cholesterol is going to hell from all those eggs. Sure you get a whole bunch of protein, but at what price in the long run? Clogged arteries?
For someone who eats deviled eggs for the holidays and rarely an egg sandwich (me) to go to eating five eggs a day is um, well, I think u understand where I'm coming from.TheLazy said:eating boiled eggs is really not that hard lol.
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.
Jeez, I thought it would be pretty self explanitory.Skilla_Staz said:I don't understand where you're coming from. It's like drinking a glass of water once a week, to drinking 6 a day. Not quite that drastic, but similar. Egg protein is extremely desirable. I don't quite understand what your excuse is.
ntssv said:Jeez, I thought it would be pretty self explanitory.
Let's see, going from about 20 eggs a year to, hmmmm....
ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE eggs per year!
That's five per day for the year.
That's a lot of fvckin eggs compared to 20.
Skilla_Staz said:I don't see how this is a problem. There are so many different ways to include eggs in your diet. It's not overkill either. You'd be suprised at how easy it is to do this.
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.