betterthandead
Senior Don Juan
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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.
Nighthawk said:Meh, she's not that hot and he's not ugly or decrepit. If I saw this couple walking down the street I'd think nothing of it. Not to say his money wouldn't be attractive of course.
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.
bigjohnson said:She looks like a pretty nice package to me, and I'd imagine he has a wide selection of tail thrown at him daily so ods are good that she's bright and fun to be with as well as easy on the eyes.
When I see people saying he could do better without knowing the woman or even seeing her in person it makes me want to laugh.
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.
She is the better looking of the two, but I see couples like this all of the time.spesmilitis said:There isn't a too big of a difference in their looks.
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.
Give me a fvcking break.Mr. Wolf said:She's an HB5, 5.5 in the picture. The guy's a millionaire and that's the best he could do? Ok, I see, aiming for the stars, aka HB10, takes balls.
You're an idiot too.looks matter period! Ugly guys get ugly girls, average guys get average girls, and good looking guys get good looking girls. Its that simple. Bullet proof game is a myth.
Phyzzle said:I mean WTF people?? This chick is some sort of clone of that cheerleader on the show Heros.
So the hottest blonde the producers of that show could possibly find, out of every aspiring actress in LA, is an HB5.5?
For me she's hotter than that pic you've been posting, but not by a lot. She's probably got a PHd and genuis IQ though, so the package he's getting isn't so rough.Mr. Wolf said:.... Tell us how you'd HB rate that rat?
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.