"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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article: Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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speed dawg

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It probably is for one side of the marriage - the one with more options. At least for a while, until they find something better, then suddenly they'll want another monogamous relationship with the new person. So weird right.

People are damn dumb.
 

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Just an utterly pathetic commentary on the idiocy of the times we're living in.
 

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actually if was a happier marriage they wouldn't divorce, and strange enough even people on that life style divorce too so.

also if you consider only sex is the way to have a happy life i'm pretty sure you have some kind of problem
 
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