Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

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.

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Calm me Down before i do something stupid

KingPinp

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Basically my parents have a house in Washington and my girlfriend and i were visiting for a month in the summer. She graduated with a buissness degree last year and is looking for a job, while i still have a year to go. So after we came back to my appartment she wanted to take a week to go visit her mum, they are real close together. that was 6 days ago. Today i am suppose to pick her up from her family, have dinner or lunch with all of themand then come back.

Okay this morning i was logging on to hotmail to check my email, and i didnt realize my girlfriend was signed in..... I open her mail box. Im looking at the letter in it i am like who thats a lot of new mail cause i have a habbit of deleting all the **** i read. Well i open one from a Greg. At this point i know its my girlfriend email but i dont even care to i have gotten to the part where she emailed him first after meeting him at some function she went to with her mom tuesday.

He apparently is a grad student in the town where i go to college in a different school. Her email was something like Hey it was nice talking to you, hope we talk again sometime. Well this dude emails her back all about hey lets get lunch make my wish come true see me blah blah blah.

She email him back and says okay ill see you on thursday blah blah blah, There reason i know this is that they keep coping and pasting previous emails.

What should i Do, Before you tell me to dump her which well be common advice, she is an idiot and doesnt realize men try to sleep with er. If the guy could hold a conversation she would be all about making the friend cause she doesnt have any.

I dont know what todo........

WTF
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

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.

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stevera004

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Just chill. *Don't* do anything stupid, don't follow her or question her directly. You aren't married (thankfully); so let the 'ho go if she wants to go. Don't do anything special for her; don't buy her anything etc. trying to win her back. Look for other chicks, and get rid of her when *you* feel like getting rid of her. For me, that time would be right now, but for you, who knows.
 

squirrels

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You sure he isn't just chumping around and in the friendzone? She might not even be into him. You may be overreacting.

If it's apparent that she IS into him, then just cut her loose.

No biggie.
 

KingPinp

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Originally posted by squirrels
You sure he isn't just chumping around and in the friendzone? She might not even be into him. You may be overreacting.

If it's apparent that she IS into him, then just cut her loose.

No biggie.
I hope you are right squirrel.
 

Caveman

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Try and make her tell about this guy. Pretend to not know this and ask some subtle questions that would make her tell you about this guy. If she tells you about him, you're fine. If she lies about it, confront her.
 

"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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