Maxtro
Master Don Juan
I also love it when you mistakenly double post and you wasted another post and you can't delete it.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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.
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.
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.
This.PrinceBeavis said:No one needs to be posting that much.
Exactly...Kaim Argonar said:Those elitists saying "ooooohhhh that's nice it will prevent the losers from wasting their lives on these forums!" are the worst.
That's so insane, on most forums regulars accumulate a post count that's much, much, MUCH higher than the regulars with the highest post counts have here. People just use this site to kill random boring moments in the day which will always exist.
Ohhhhh no, someone will waste his life away if for one or two days he actually enters an heated debate and makes a few dozens of posts in a short time period! It's the end of the world as we know it!
NO! he had a power trip and decided that he needed an ego boost so he reduced the level of freedom... if his board was not popular he would never have done this.. Typical human power trip:cuss:reset said:No guys it's not about money, remember the announcement? It's about quality over quantity. One day he was looking at the site and decided the quality had to go up.
Anyway, I've already said I'd even pay to have a premium membership. A lot of guys would.
Anyone notice that the PM box can store more messages now?
i feel the same way, im too scared to reply because i may want to reply in other threads through out the night....Latinoman said:Interestingly enough...there is not a sticky out there letting members know (especially the new ones or the ones that have not post in a while) about the rule.
I was gone for over a week and saw several threads that I wanted to contribute. But ended up posting only ONE TIME yesterday, because was concerned I would miss a good post in the unread threads.
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.
Just create a new handle.. you could be Latinodude.Latinoman said:Interestingly enough...there is not a sticky out there letting members know (especially the new ones or the ones that have not post in a while) about the rule.
I was gone for over a week and saw several threads that I wanted to contribute. But ended up posting only ONE TIME yesterday, because was concerned I would miss a good post in the unread threads.
*Points you in the direction of a half dozen pages ago where we specifically stated that we have no control over that.* :kick:DonGorgon said:Why is it that when forums get popular these odd power moves always happen by mods? WHY?
OK so the mods are NOT behind this travesty .. its the site owner playing these dictator games... booooooooo to him:cuss:TheVirtualMind said:*Points you in the direction of a half dozen pages ago where we specifically stated that we have no control over that.* :kick:
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.