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.
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.
Awesome.CTApprentice said:Esther Baxter
Me too!Maxtro said:Nice find. I really like black girls with that kind of body and hair.
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.
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.
If you think she's fat you are ridiculous. She has NO stomach whatsoever. She has a great hip to waist ratio and you look at her legs and they are perfectly toned, no cellulite to be found. How on earth is this woman fat?BigJimbo said:130 in her dreams! If she is 5'7" she tops 200 easily! Admit it, fat is now beautiful in America!
The camera adds ten poundsBigJimbo said:130 in her dreams! If she is 5'7" she tops 200 easily! Admit it, fat is now beautiful in America!
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.
everybody has their preferences broMaxtro said:In regards to the above picture.
It's funny how I said I like black girls with her type of body, but the whole booty thing doesn't work for me. To me that much ass is excessive. As long as it ain't flat then I'm OK. I'm most definitely a breast man. Esther Baxter is reported at being a 32 DDD and I'm all over that.
CTApprentice said:
She's hot, but why is she posing next to a trannie?CTApprentice said:Here's some pics of her in real life
http://f.imagehost.org/0199/10998372-906442c9ece3b62617321f9d6f0dfc65_4a2c2432-scaled.jpg
"Anything I don't agree with has it's roots in the <insert negative origin theory>"speakeasy said:I think the gay influence in the fashion/modeling industry is what started the whole skinny as beautiful thing.
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.