"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Coffee dates

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I'm a laidback dude at heart and I have two best friends in the states who are both Latinos and they're good Coffee Buddies of mine to chat up to and vent about my life and situations or talk and have a good Philosophical Discussion with. Having somebody to talk to like that is very healthy to get the cobwebs out whether it's a pastor or a priest or a therapist. As far as Coffee dates are concerned I can picture myself doing it with much attractive older women in their mid to late 30s such as myself. Nothing more than I love to do than banter and have a laidback, casual, fun conversations with someone who is their early to mid 20s or something, just have a lattae at a cool cloudy day and talk about her pop culture musical taste that I'm not all too familiar with lol ...dude those are good moments at a Coffee shop.
 

"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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I don't like coffee dates. I typically don't do coffee dates. The only time when I might do a coffee date is if I am doing a bookstore approach and I manage to do an instantaneous date in the coffee shop located inside a bookstore. Some bookstore locations have coffee shops set up inside of them.

I'm not much of a coffee drinker, nor would I want to drink coffee on a weeknight evening (when a first date is most likely to occur) even if I were more of a coffee drinker.

The primary reason why I avoid coffee dates is that it's difficult to create sexual tension in them. I It's very difficult to physically escalate and set up a first kiss in a coffee shop. I'm trying to create a sexual vibe on my dates and have a woman associate sex appeal with me.

The environment in nearly any coffee shop isn't sexual at all. What typically happens on a coffee date is a neutral to slightly pleasant time without a romantic connection. Without a romantic connection, there's no second date and the interaction ends. Women are not motivated to see anyone again unless they have an amazing time on a first date. The threshold for getting a 2nd time has increased as female abundance has increased.
 

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I don't like coffee dates. I typically don't do coffee dates. The only time when I might do a coffee date is if I am doing a bookstore approach and I manage to do an instantaneous date in the coffee shop located inside a bookstore. Some bookstore locations have coffee shops set up inside of them.

I'm not much of a coffee drinker, nor would I want to drink coffee on a weeknight evening (when a first date is most likely to occur) even if I were more of a coffee drinker.

The primary reason why I avoid coffee dates is that it's difficult to create sexual tension in them. I It's very difficult to physically escalate and set up a first kiss in a coffee shop. I'm trying to create a sexual vibe on my dates and have a woman associate sex appeal with me.

The environment in nearly any coffee shop isn't sexual at all. What typically happens on a coffee date is a neutral to slightly pleasant time without a romantic connection. Without a romantic connection, there's no second date and the interaction ends. Women are not motivated to see anyone again unless they have an amazing time on a first date. The threshold for getting a 2nd time has increased as female abundance has increased.

Coffee dates might work for a mature women in her late 30s and find an laidback intellectual conversation stimulating. For the younger broads, I'd probably take them dancing in a dance club or something. or As Pook recommends, action dates like shooting hoops at the park, go kart racing or mini golfing.
 

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Coffee dates might work for a mature women in her late 30s and find an laidback intellectual conversation stimulating.
There are better first date options for a date with a mature woman in her late 30s than a coffee shop date.

For the younger broads, I'd probably take them dancing in a dance club or something. or As Pook recommends, action dates like shooting hoops at the park, go kart racing or mini golfing.
It's difficult to schedule a good activity date for a first date.

If a man is arranging a first date off of an in-person approach, this is often based off of a 3-7 minute in-person conversation. Good luck figuring out an activity date on the spot during a 3-7 minute daygame/nightgame conversation.

Planning an activity date off of a swipe app interaction is difficult as well. It's a big commitment to make with a stranger with no past in-person conversations. In the previous scenario, at least there's a 3-7 minute in-person basis. Many app interactions are solely based on text messages, as getting a woman under 40 on a phone conversation today would be a major challenge. Video chats can be arranged but if you're going to video chat women off of apps, a man might as well approach women in the real world.
 

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I like them, they have generally been the start of other dates. It's not a rushed, loud environment, so you can sit down and talk and get to the know the other person.

I would not think too much about it, especially if the lady proposes. I went on one few weeks ago. Was a coworker who switched jobs last year. We talked her and there while we worked together, nothing serious. She asked for some people's numbers before she left and I did not think much of. After a few months she text me and say we should grab coffee sometime and catch up. So that's how it happened. While we were having coffee she volunteered that she was thinking about possibly moving to a different state out west where some of her friends were at. She said there's a good chance she will unless she meets a great guy. At end when we were leaving she gave me a hug and said we should do this again, etc. Pretty sure I have chance with this woman.

Anyway Coffee dates are easy way for women to test the waters.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

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.

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Coffee dates might work for a mature women in her late 30s and find an laidback intellectual conversation stimulating. For the younger broads, I'd probably take them dancing in a dance club or something. or As Pook recommends, action dates like shooting hoops at the park, go kart racing or mini golfing.
Bro, everyone knows that, in regards to dates and women, lecturing or coming off as too intellectual or superior just makes you look pompous, and nothing kills attraction faster. That vibe will dry her up instantly.

Leave that **** for your boys.
 

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Coffee dates can work if you're able to sexualize the interaction before the meet. You need good game though.
 

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Coffee dates can work if you're able to sexualize the interaction before the meet. You need good game though.
Most men don't have strong enough game to do this. It's a higher degree of difficulty.

I agree with @BackInTheGame78 that men who go on coffee dates aren't the men who get laid. It's very difficult to sexually escalate any sort of interaction in a coffee shop. I need to escalate and create a sexual vibe in my interactions. I don't see how that's going to happen on most coffee dates with a virtual stranger.

A coffee date could be feasible off of a bookstore approach with a woman with enough free time to agree to an instantaneous date. Many bookstores have coffee shops inside of them. In my bookstore approaches, I have tried to set a bar drinks date in the future in nearly all cases where I am able to get a semi-extended bookstore conversations (3-7 minutes or so).
 

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Coffee dates are for guys who don't get laid.
Interesting take....

I just wanted to reply that I saw some videos where women were complaining about coffee dates...

It's one of those things that a man with TONS of volume can get away with ( because he doesn't care). The average joe- struggle - Don Juan will :

- be fed up with the cost of dating AND getting no results

- thus he wil opt for a more low effort cheaper alternative: the coffee date. And yes, from a MAN'S pov this is fair. But women ( as usual) have a 180 different opinion...she doesn't care that you got rejected last time while paying full price and now you want a ROI...
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Interesting take....

I just wanted to reply that I saw some videos where women were complaining about coffee dates...

It's one of those things that a man with TONS of volume can get away with ( because he doesn't care). The average joe- struggle - Don Juan will :

- be fed up with the cost of dating AND getting no results

- thus he wil opt for a more low effort cheaper alternative: the coffee date. And yes, from a MAN'S pov this is fair. But women ( as usual) have a 180 different opinion...she doesn't care that you got rejected last time while paying full price and now you want a ROI...
Huh?

Nobody I know would ever want to go on a coffee date let alone suggest one.
 

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Most men don't have strong enough game to do this. It's a higher degree of difficulty.

I agree with @BackInTheGame78 that men who go on coffee dates aren't the men who get laid. It's very difficult to sexually escalate any sort of interaction in a coffee shop. I need to escalate and create a sexual vibe in my interactions. I don't see how that's going to happen on most coffee dates with a virtual stranger.

A coffee date could be feasible off of a bookstore approach with a woman with enough free time to agree to an instantaneous date. Many bookstores have coffee shops inside of them. In my bookstore approaches, I have tried to set a bar drinks date in the future in nearly all cases where I am able to get a semi-extended bookstore conversations (3-7 minutes or so).
I'm talking in the framework of using an app for the initial approach and running sexting game prior to the coffee meet, along with comfort game so you're less of a "virtual stranger". Once this has been established, usually kino is enough to keep things going in a sexual frame.
 

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I'm talking in the framework of using an app for the initial approach and running sexting game prior to the coffee meet, along with comfort game so you're less of a "virtual stranger". Once this has been established, usually kino is enough to keep things going in a sexual frame.
Coffee shops are not the best environment for running kino escalation.

Most men aren't running sexting game prior to a coffee meet.

A guy like this might be able to pull off a coffee meet, but a bar would still be better.

 

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Coffee shops are not the best environment for running kino escalation.

Most men aren't running sexting game prior to a coffee meet.

A guy like this might be able to pull off a coffee meet, but a bar would still be better.

As long as you can avoid sitting directly across a large table, you should be good
 

"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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As far as Coffee dates are concerned I can picture myself doing it with much attractive older women in their mid to late 30s such as myself. Nothing more than I love to do than banter and have a laidback, casual, fun conversations with someone who is their early to mid 20s or something, just have a lattae at a cool cloudy day and talk about her pop culture musical taste that I'm not all too familiar with lol ...dude those are good moments at a Coffee shop.
Yeah it’s not bad if a man has a gf or is getting laid with hot girls easily.

But if he doesn’t have a gf or wife or isn’t getting laid with hot girls consistently, sounds a little gay.
 

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Interesting take....

I just wanted to reply that I saw some videos where women were complaining about coffee dates...

It's one of those things that a man with TONS of volume can get away with ( because he doesn't care). The average joe- struggle - Don Juan will :

- be fed up with the cost of dating AND getting no results

- thus he wil opt for a more low effort cheaper alternative: the coffee date. And yes, from a MAN'S pov this is fair. But women ( as usual) have a 180 different opinion...she doesn't care that you got rejected last time while paying full price and now you want a ROI...
Hi Gamisch,
Yes that's how it is over here...Seems much like Jamaica or maybe Germany now?....In fact to have a "Coffee Buddy"is almost synonymous with having a "Friend With Benefits",these little rendezvous often finishing up in the back of a car or at nearby park LOL.
 
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Huh?

Nobody I know would ever want to go on a coffee date let alone suggest one.
Interesting

I geuss this is a cultural difference between our continents. The idea behind the coffee date is a male invention, one that provides an cheap alternative for gauging if its even worth to invest more money in as you called it " dinner or action dates".

Doesn't have to be coffee necessarily, but rather a quick non alcoholic drink.
 

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Yeah it’s not bad if a man has a gf or is getting laid with hot girls easily.

But if he doesn’t have a gf or wife or isn’t getting laid with hot girls consistently, sounds a little gay.
Tbh it might be one of the reasons why American men complain so much about the difficulty of dating American women and their entitlement.

If a man has one date per week and he has to spend 150 bucks per date it's gonna add up FAST. That's 600 he has to spend on strange women while getting nothing back..

600 bucks goes a long way given the current financial situation in both the US and Europe. Let alone poorer regions

For reference: a hooker in Europe can be 50 bucks . That's money for 3 hookers VS getting rejected by a strange woman and going home with nothing. That's what I've been hearing my entire life now..
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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