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.
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.
Being attracted to a girl doesn't mean the girl is empirically smoking hot.mikey2012 said:I can never be with a woman I wasnt attracted to.
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.
All good points here. So many ads ASSUME that as a 'man' you should enjoy a night with, say, Kate Upton. I reckon if i posted pics of my (eventual) girlfriend/s loads of anonymous gits (girls included, particularly the 'fashionista' type) would probably start picking apart her looks, and you wouldn't want that. Standards have gone insane. I have just about lost patience with that kind of thing in popular culture bleeding into real life.Pandora said:yeh man. I really think this intense desire for hot girls is manufactured. I look at my grandparents generation and they just wanted a good women to settle down with. Now thanks to hollywood we think we are owed a smoking hot chick. Many of our problems would disappear if the average guy just dated a 6/10. The problem is deep down inside we will never be really satiated with a 6/10.
Erm, yeah. Emphasis on SOME. Although stereotypes may say otherwise, many women can be utterly vile in weighing up men, and to some users of this site that's not news.....not attractive? Then to them you aren't a human being....They dress slutty, but then start complaining about 'perverts'....they vote for prime ministers or presidents because they're 'hot'....Pandora said:We are just as bad as women in some respects.