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.
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.
Not at all in fact it makes you look bvtturt. The only time "calling chicks out" helps is if she's interested in the first place and you'd hardly have to worry about needing to "call them out" regardless.pete101 said:does calling HBs out on non replies to meet ups and on replies to trivial stuff helpful in restoring the power balance slightly?
You answered your own question in red. Two strikes means nothing if she isn't interested nor will twenty strikes matter. If she was interested having a BF wouldn't matter either.pete101 said:this HB i went out with once who i thought was little interested in me suddenly went cold a few days later (i was too keen, must have scared her off) i applied the 2 strikes rule she completely ignores my suggestions to meet up which tells me she either has a bf now or isn't interested or both..it was all a bit afc tbh, i suspected attention wh0ring but tbh she's blunt in her responses to other non meet up stuff, no follow on questions etc.. i suspect not and just being a good gf, or plain not interested.
She doesn't want to go out with you. What're you going to call her out on? If you came off like a thirsty dude for her which I'm sure is the case by your thread "calling her out" is only going to push the chick even further away and may wind up having her tell her friends you are a stalker. If you shot yourself in the foot with one chick don't try to go for the hat trick and look like the towns desperate stage 5 clinger. Drop it.pete101 said:can i call her out on her non responses to my meet up texts?
Again drop it. Meet new chicks. Learn from whatever mistakes you made. EVEN IF you meet new ones and she sees you with them while out don't fall into the same chick using you just to then get an ego boost to see if she can get you under her spell again for simply her own gratification. Chicks WILL play that game not wanting anything to do with you but for their own ego since she'd have seen you "moved on".pete101 said:i've given up now but i know i'll bump into her on the weekends as we live in the same area so it's inevitable and i dont want the awkward beef (i know i'll be polite and ignore her, right now she suspects i'm still pursuing actively)
Translation: "Thanks" Mr. Nice guy. I'LL go check it out. NOT US.pete101 said:my last text i've sent was a suggestion for her to go somewhere the other side of town to go sailing (she loves sailing and misses it from back home)
she's replied with 'i appreciate that, i'll definitely check it out!'
Tourist guide? LMFAO. Dude you'd be a desperate stalker.pete101 said:see im not gona be a tourist guide but i am thinking of sending back 'i was gona take u there at some point but u haven't been forthcoming with my suggestions to meet which tells me 1)u have a bf or 2)you're not interested..1) i can understand 2) i cannot!haha.. so i'll pass, you're on your own sunshine!
also a trip to the zoo and to the animal shelter to help me pick a dog (im looking to adopt)']
The effect it will have is her knowing full well you are trying to bribe her with a guilt trip which is typical "Nice guy" pathetic phaggotry. She may bypass the boyfriend line and go with a worse line: "I'm filing a restraining order with the police."pete101 said:the last bit is to guilt trip her cos i know she loves animals so tryna make her feel she's missing out. i dont think i've been too arrogant.. mainly C+F stuff.
what kind of effect will this have?
i suspect i may get a text back saying 'that's fine i'll just go with my bf!' to shut me up.. so im anticipating the worst.. i just want to readdress the balance when i bump into her again.. i know how to behave.. ignore. easy.