"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Authenticity

BeTheChange

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Do you think it's possible to live a truly authentic life if your partner has a fundamentally different positions on any or all of the following:
  • Politics
  • Fairness as it pertains to redistribution of wealth, opportunity and outcome
  • Religion and the existence of God
  • Morality and what it means to be "good"
  • Society
  • Family and raising children
  • The role of men and women
Feel free to add other things to this list. It's important not to surround oneself with people who think exactly like you. Ideas should be challenged and living within an echo chamber only creates an environment where growth is stilted. However I'm pondering whether there is a line. Yes it might be unrealitic or even undesirable to find a partner who agrees with you in everything but similarly can one have both harmony and live an authentic life without choosing a partner who mirrors their world view?
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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