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.
I disagree dude. It doesn't just happen out of the blue, it happens when a guy creates an obsessive idealization of a chick in his mind. There are many causes. For instance, he might do this because he's desperate, has a scarcity mentality in regard to women, or feels he's obligated to get married by a certain age. There are more possible causes.joekerr31 said:oneitis isn't caused by anything anyone does. IF it were there were be multiple guys with oneitis over the same woman.
oneitis is a mystery. it just happens out of the blue with no explanation.
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.
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.
The problem of oneitis is related to the man, not the woman.Miss said:Just curious as to what some girls do to cause Oneitis and what others do that make it easy to next them.
One thing I noticed with some people I know is that usually they're also trying to fill some void in themselves.Rollo Tomassi said:There are a LOT of precursors to ONEitis and a lot of associated AFC behaviors that come as a result of ONEitis, but the cause of ONEitis can almost universally be traced back to one common factor - a complete lack or severe deficit of any viable options with regards to other women.The guy who knows (both consciously and unconsciously) only one woman is potentially available for him to meet his need for sexual intimacy will necessisarily idealize her.
I agree with all of this, but still, sometimes the guy do have options and is so conditioned to believe he is not complete without someone that he goes as far as he can to be with one single woman who idealizes his perception of what is missing in him.Rollo Tomassi said:I realize I always come back to Plate Theroy when it comes to ONEitis, but it's proven true time and again; the more plates you have spinning simultaneously is directly proportional to developing ONEitis. A man without options becomes necessitous, and necessitous men are never free. A lack of viable options (i.e. more non-exclusive women) combined with men's natural propensity to avoid rejection is a veritable recipe for ONEitis.
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.
^^^:crackup:penkitten said:the cause is lack of pirates.
if our world had more pirates, there would be very little oneitis.
girls dont cause oneitus, Love and social ideals and concepts cause oneitus.Miss said:Just curious as to what some girls do to cause Oneitis and what others do that make it easy to next them.