Well, then why so much bitterness, is what I wonder.Yep, that's it. Move along little dude. Stay in your lane.
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Well, then why so much bitterness, is what I wonder.Yep, that's it. Move along little dude. Stay in your lane.
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.
This does NOT look like a person with mental issues AT ALL:And what led you to that conclusion?
Are you being serious or sarcastic? In text, it's unclear to me.This does NOT look like a person with mental issues AT ALL:
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That's part of your problem.Are you being serious or sarcastic? In text, it's unclear to me.
If you're going to have a bad attitude about it, I take it was sarcasm then.That's part of your problem.
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.
I was going back to her upbringing and her thought process of life. Not like Psycho; but that cannot be ruled out these days.That wikipedia page says she has Tourettes, synesthesia, depression, and vegetarianism (lol). I've heard her talk about all that except the depression. I'm a little skeptical, she's a wealthy young California kid who jas probably had her own therapists and analysts since age six.
First off, what teenager doesn't suffer from depression at times?
Tourette's, it's possible she might have it, but then again it could be an excuse for when she makes a weird face in public (like when she took flak at the Oscars for making a face during Maya Rudolph and Kristin Wigg's act).
Synesthesia is interesting, but it sounds like it might be something they would make up and put out there because it makes her sound cool and gifted. "I see music as colors, doesn't everyone?".
I guess all that could relate to your "nuts in the head" comment.
No bitterness. I take everything in stride. We're cool dude.Well, then why so much bitterness, is what I wonder.
She's an adult celebrity.. It's all fair game.Yeah, let's all band together in berating a man's daughter who's barely even out of adolescence and attack her character in his presence, even though none of you have actually even met her in person.
Such honorable, mature men.
Are you all failed musicians who Envy her massive success at such a tender age, when you've made nothing of yourselves with twice the time?
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
Well, to be fair, of course she dresses weird, she's a pop star. Have you seen Lady Gaga?This does NOT look like a person with mental issues AT ALL:
How many of the aforesaid can be considered mentally sane by conventional standards? They are all a bunch of weirdos and freaks and the fact that they are popular musicians doesn’t change that.Well, to be fair, of course she dresses weird, she's a pop star. Have you seen Lady Gaga?
Even in my day, the musicians dressed to look apart. Long hair, hippie attire, KISS, Elton John. Gwar, Buckethead, Slipknot.
So you're saying celebrities aren't worthy of being granted the same level of respect as you'd have others give an obscure guy like you? Sounds a little irrationally entitled, doesn't it?She's an adult celebrity.. It's all fair game.
Don't fools deride that which they are too ignorant to understand?How many of the aforesaid can be considered mentally sane by conventional standards? They are all a bunch of weirdos and freaks and the fact that they are popular musicians doesn’t change that.
Nope. They selected to put their lives out in the public arena, that means there are no boundries; aside from illegal ones. Why are your panties in a bunch? Is it that time of the month?So you're saying celebrities aren't worthy of being granted the same level of respect as you'd have others give an obscure guy like you? Sounds a little irrationally entitled, doesn't it?
Only Conceited and thus Insecure men resort to flimsy attempts to emasculate other men just for disagreeing with them. Were you the schoolyard bully too?Nope. They selected to put their lives out in the public arena, that means there are no boundries; aside from illegal ones. Why are your panties in a bunch? Is it that time of the month?
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.
Okay cupcake. Whatever you say. Again, you are not even on my level. I'll let the other ones here entertain your childish antics moving forward. Be well lil dude.Only Conceited and thus Insecure men resort to flimsy attempts to emasculate other men just for disagreeing with them. Were you the schoolyard bully too?
But the point is: I take it you don't have a daughter, and if you do, it's clear she's neither beautiful nor talented.
And just what level is that? Am I to endure yet even more of your expressions of self-love and your false perception that you're superior to other men -- or are you to disappear because you're too proud to confront your follies?Okay cupcake. Whatever you say. Again, you are not even on my level. I'll let the other ones here entertain your childish antics moving forward. Be well lil dude.
What I was trying to get at is:How many of the aforesaid can be considered mentally sane by conventional standards? They are all a bunch of weirdos and freaks and the fact that they are popular musicians doesn’t change that.