You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Yes the study would have been more relevent if it focused on long terms/marriage partners in their 30's or 40's. But since it is focused more on short term college age women "feelings" with regards to the quality of their own relationship vs. their partner porn viewing then it reached the conclusion that porn damages relationships.samspade said:Porn is fine in small doses but it can do damage to a relationship.
That said, this is another story where the obvious isn't addressed, i.e. why are they looking at porn in the first place. You could just as easily have a story about women reading Harlequin novels or 50 Shades of Grey.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Or maybe simply makes you aim highter therefore forcing you to perform more and more in order to get it?PairPlusRoyalFlush said:Porn is toxic and highly addictive, we all know it just admit it. It raises your physical standards to unreasonable and unhealthy levels, which limits your opportunities.
Not if you watch fat girl porn!!!PairPlusRoyalFlush said:Porn...raises your physical standards to unreasonable and unhealthy levels
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
PairPlusRoyalFlush said:Porn is toxic and highly addictive, we all know it just admit it. It raises your physical standards to unreasonable and unhealthy levels, which limits your opportunities.
Exactly. The problem is not the porn. The problem is that the girlfriends/wives are so inattentive that their boyfriends/husbands need porn to have some kind of outlet. A porn habit does not cause a bad marriage; a bad marriage causes a porn habit.Who Dares Win said:Seriously just imagine how frustrated a guy can be to prefear porn to his girlfriend/wife.
The key word here is report. In other words, women who DON'T report about their husbands porn use, or simply don't know about it, aren't having this same self-esteem problem. The ones who report it are having issues with it. It's a self-selecting bias.Young women who report that their romantic partners look at porn frequently are less happy in their relationships than women partnered with guys who more often abstain, new research finds. Discovering explicit material on a partner's computer "made them feel like they were not good enough, like they could not measure up"