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.
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.
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.
Exactly that's why I think dating shows should be watched by every guy that has trouble with women. So many guys on those shows had the girls interest in the beginning but then they say something wrong or do something wrong and kill their chances.Originally posted by Interpol
I think dating shows generally provide better examples of what NOT to do.
That's the worst show to watch and learn about dating. It's a competition and people will do whatever it takes to win whether they like the person or not.Originally posted by pootwo
Does anyone watch 'Dissmissed' on MTV?
It is the ultimate in what not to do. Everyone on there seems to be the shallowest, most self-centred people with an absolutly repulsive personnality.
Actually, all this show does is make me weep at what kind of people this world is producing at an ever increasing rate.
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.
what does AMOGed mean?Originally posted by JT47319
Craig of RSD fame was on Fifth Wheel (or was that Elimidate?) and won.
One of my wings also interrupted a Blind Date show, AMOGed the guy, and then later got the girl's # off camera. Got a BJ and then ditched her.