MatureDJ
Master Don Juan
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
article: Happily Never After: The Myth of Marriage
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"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
taiyuu_otoko
Master Don Juan
Whatever, it was written for Playboy.
You could cherry pick equally relevant data to write a pro marriage article for "Jesus Weekly" or whatever.
Playboy is what it is (recent changes notwithstanding) because it understood its market and catered to it. Not for being a beacon of truth.
You could cherry pick equally relevant data to write a pro marriage article for "Jesus Weekly" or whatever.
Playboy is what it is (recent changes notwithstanding) because it understood its market and catered to it. Not for being a beacon of truth.
Once Bitten
Don Juan
Getting married these days is one of the dumbest things a man can do.
"Here I am, let your female friends help you cut my nuts off and take my money and sanity, it's okay..." LOL
Porn sites have killed Playboy. They are selling out to our "modern" society. (pfft...) Surprised they don't put men in it too and make it a multi-gender rag. Along with other variants of gender.
"Here I am, let your female friends help you cut my nuts off and take my money and sanity, it's okay..." LOL
Porn sites have killed Playboy. They are selling out to our "modern" society. (pfft...) Surprised they don't put men in it too and make it a multi-gender rag. Along with other variants of gender.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
BetterCallSaul
Master Don Juan
Well I don't know about you, but when i was single, women were never entitled to romance from me. If they displayed good behavior and had good qualities that I appreciated in a woman, they were rewarded with romance. It's not an automatic guaranteed thing.
I will say though that currently, what a lot of people would consider to be romantic (giving flowers or candy 'just because', writing love notes, stuff like that) I don't really do anymore and neither does she. Perhaps that's a failing on my part, but I think it depends on the person you're with. When we have the opportunity to just spend time together with one another without kids, we just keep it simple with either lunch/dinner, going for a walk, sitting in the park. The last time we did that we went to a small park so I could help her a bit with learning how to get better at basic photography. Basic kino during that time seemed to be sufficient for both of us.