"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Brad Pitt a pretty boy?

spaceman2001

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I always hear people say this. How so? His jaw is very square and and he's had a pretty muscular body over the years. So where is this pretty boy stuff coming from?
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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wtf????? this should be moved to "Anything Else", or preferably, never posted in the first place.

Come on guys.... at least TRY to stay on topic.
 

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I really don't "get" what the big deal is with Brad Pitt. He does nothing for me at all. The only movies of his I really liked was Seven Years in Tibet and Troy because I have this thing for movies made about those time periods. He's really not anything special, though. I've seen better looking Clam Diggers in rural Maine than Brad Pitt...and that isn't saying much, really.
 

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Brad Pitt is a pretty boy. Plain and Simple. He is an actor he probably wears makeup, if he doesnt, he is still defined as a prettyboy simply cause he's good looking.
 

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Why does it seem my homophobia's starting to kick in?
 

"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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Ty Peddington (of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) , Is he Gay or not?
 

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he's an actor...we view him exactly the way we are meant to view him as.Talk about social proof at it's best- he could have as much pootytang as he wants for the rest of his life!!! is he a pretty boy? who cares? he's hot!! :crackup:

...stay away from me :nervous:

* i forget where i read that and what context it was in, but it was hilarious and i had to use it! :D
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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Brad Pitt is an AFC. All you have to do to verify this is see how he tries to identify with Angelina Jolie. As soon as they hook up, he adopts her adopted kids and 'suddeny' becomes the foremost proponent of childrens wellfare in Thailand. He knocks her up, but by then all of the AFC in him is on the table and a woman like Angelina needs a man who can be a man and pass her sh!t tests. She reads him as an AFC and she's off to the next guy to see if he's man enough to smack her on the ass. Classic AFC scenario.
 

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First of all... give credit where credit's due. Knocking up Jolie is NOT an easy task.

Second, good point. I think Billy Bob Thornton is a classic example of bad boy that matches well with Jolie. However, he's washed up, which also gives him some AFC cred in the field.

Third, I couldn't give a good kot dayum in the first place.

;)
 

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Cruise said:
Why does it seem my homophobia's starting to kick in?

Because you're one of those people who can't have a normal discussion without pointing out everything that could remotely be considered gay for who knows what fcuked up personal reason.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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Rollo Tomassi said:
Brad Pitt is an AFC. All you have to do to verify this is see how he tries to identify with Angelina Jolie. As soon as they hook up, he adopts her adopted kids and 'suddeny' becomes the foremost proponent of childrens wellfare in Thailand. He knocks her up, but by then all of the AFC in him is on the table and a woman like Angelina needs a man who can be a man and pass her sh!t tests. She reads him as an AFC and she's off to the next guy to see if he's man enough to smack her on the ass. Classic AFC scenario.
lol I agree.

and yes hes a pretty boy
 

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mrRuckus said:
Because you're one of those people who can't have a normal discussion without pointing out everything that could remotely be considered gay for who knows what fcuked up personal reason.

I'd rather like to think it's because I don't think talking about other guy's looks is considered 'normal discussion'. ;)
 
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