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.
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.
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.
Where exactly was this. I spent some time in Rio, but had very little luck. All I found was hookers, and rich stuck up braz girls who think they are the sh!t.PRMoon said:Lol. My room mate and I made a trip to brazil last year. The roles are almost reversed there. Hot, and I mean smoking hot, girls overtly hit on foreign guys when you go there. They will literally fight each other to get at you if you have any sense of style. After hours parties for that particular week were spectacular.
who are you talking towutangfinancial said:Whatever, there's some blazing hot Brazillian hookers.
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Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Getting a green card doesn't magically go back in time and erase the 20+ years they spent being raised to embrace their femininity. I have known more than a dozen foreign women married to Americans, from Hungary, Philippines, Russia and Thailand. The vast majority stayed very sweet and female and make fantastic wives for the men they are with.ZenGodMod said:Alas these Foreign Women would end up just like American Women, because after the green card is attained they become American Women.
You can also argue that not all American Women are beatches....."nothing is 100%".bigjohnson said:Getting a green card doesn't magically go back in time and erase the 20+ years they spent being raised to embrace their femininity. I have known more than a dozen foreign women married to Americans, from Hungary, Philippines, Russia and Thailand. The vast majority stayed very sweet and female and make fantastic wives for the men they are with.
Of course nothing is 100%, but the odds seem vastly better.
I get you.... I met a couple of brazilian girls here and they are nuts.....My Name is Nobody said:There are plenty of them here in the USA and they are beautiful but crazy.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
ZenGodMod said:You can also argue that not all American Women are beatches....."nothing is 100%".
Um.. men also file for divorce.bigjohnson said:How about 50%, as in there is a statistical 50% chance an American woman will file for divorce after an American man marries her?
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.