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.
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.
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.
hey, Kola king that sh!t happens all the time to me especially when i really really like a girl i can't seem to talk to her but if i don't have feelings for her at all i can say or do whatever weird huhKoalaKing said:A couple of years ago I became very strongly attracted to a HB8 who lived in the appartment next door to me, she smiled at me a lot, but in over a one year period I just couldn't ever approach her for a conversation, even though it seemed as if she was at least a bit interested in me, yet over one year later another HB8 moved into the appartment on the other side of me, I was also just as strongly attracted to her as I was the other girl, but for some unknown reason I found it so much easier to approach her, we talked and got to know each other very well within one month of her having moved in next door to me, this girl is now my girlfriend, yet still to this day I have never spoken to the girl who still lives in the appartment on the other side, this is a mystery to me, does it happen to other guys, is it to do with the girls or to do with me personally that I was able to talk to one within a week and the other I wasn't able to talk to in over a year before that, this isn't the only time that this has happened to me either.![]()
I've actually tried something similar along those lines (tight t-shirt instead of shirtless) but I have no idea if she's checking me out.tmpgstx said:Mow your lawn with your shirt off and let her get some good glances at you.