"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Are Don Juans "High Maintenance"?

Desdinova

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We sometimes talk about women who are high maintenance. These are usually women who have self-esteem issues, and need to have their egos stroked constantly.

However, the other day I asked myself, "Am I a high maintenance guy?" I'd have to say that the answer is YES. If a woman isn't keeping me happy but is making me miserable and becomes sexually unsatisfying, I'll have the desire to move onto something else. I cannot be with a woman for the sole purpose of companionship. She needs to be a positive addition to my life, or she's not worth keeping around.

Your thoughts?
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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flippinfreak

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It sounds like you stole this thought from somebody and put the classic "I had a thought" commitment behind it.

ie, high maintenance costs...

Yes, DonJuans are high maintenance, but the output comes before anybody gives you any input. Unless you are not a Don of course... than the input comes first, and you respond...

ie, supplication
 

Nighthawk

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My penis is VERY high-maintenance. Fortunately the job seems to be very fulfilling for those who are lucky enough to secure the post.

It's a good question, and compared to many AFCs, a DJ might prove a challenge - but as we know, most women want that.

Ultimately I think the phrase 'high-maintenance' is so weighted with the connotations of a male owner and female possession that it doesn't reverse-translate, but in general alpha males expect and are gladly given the respect, attention and financial incentives that they deserve.

Though I do see plenty of women happy with the safe, easily dominated types. Perhaps they do indeed consider a higher status male too 'high maintenance' (and prefer to wear the pants). But I reckon it's the average looking women that is most guilty of this. The uber-hotties are yearning for a real man to 'maintain'.
 

diplomatic_lies

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Yep, we're pretty high-maintainence. Demanding, selfish, and arrogant. That's why we don't get along with high-maintainence women :D
 

SamePendo

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diplomatic_lies said:
Yep, we're pretty high-maintainence. Demanding, selfish, and arrogant. That's why we don't get along with high-maintainence women :D
Maybe you said it jokingly, but I think you're so damned right.

Great question Desdinova, hadn't thought about it.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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