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.
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.
Plinco said:
Huh? In America men didn't change diapers. They didn't clean the house. They had the strength to keep their females from working. Many men married virgins. Divorce was extremely low. Females were not fat.Plinco said:
:crackup: :crackup: Yup, we've sure come a long way since the 20's.BigJimbo said:
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
BigJimbo said:
Plinco said:
He still makes a good point about the blurring of the gender gap. For men, things have gotten progressivelly worse since the 1920s.TyTe`EyEz said:
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
You do realize that one day that things will change! They have to, for that is the law of the universe; individuals reap what they sow.TyTe`EyEz said:
Women pushing and getting the right to vote was the first step to the decline. Women are naturally self-centered and lack a sense of fairness. Once they got the vote being 51% of the populace, it was only a matter of time till they voted themselves all the money and influence. Women always had all the sexuality, manipulation and save-a-ho power. Now they have it all with economic and legal power, and men have nothing. It was more than fair for women in the 20's, still mostly fair for men in the 50's, but now it is totally in favor of women.^__^ said: