"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Ingeniarius

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Actually, watch out:

In Western tradition, an engagement ring is a ring worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, it is worn on the left-hand ring finger, while in other countries, such as Poland and Ukraine, it is customary for the ring to be worn on the right-hand. By modern convention in countries such as the United States, the ring is usually presented as a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective bride while or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future marriage.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring
 

PRMoon

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I was just thinking about this today. I almost always check for the left hand o see a wedding ring. I was looking at a very nice looking woman going down to the pool today and I zeroed in on the left hand to see a diamond so big she could focus a lazer. I think it's a practice I've always done because it determines wether persuit should happen as well as concidered tactics. I always like to know what I'm getting into.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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In America it's typically the left hand, although ya made me think: I noticed a co-worker today with an engagement-ring looking ring on her right hand. I didn't ask if she was married because I don't care, but I thought it was unusual. Maybe I'll ask and report back someday.
 

Joe The Homophobe

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Effington said:
In America it's typically the left hand, although ya made me think: I noticed a co-worker today with an engagement-ring looking ring on her right hand. I didn't ask if she was married because I don't care, but I thought it was unusual. Maybe I'll ask and report back someday.
probably just a fashion ring? women wear rings just to ****block nice guys from buggin them now a days. If you were to check the hands of most girls on a college campus you will see lots and lots with rings and many on the wedding finger and you know these young girls can't all be married.
 
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