"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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Quiksilver

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Fair enough...And yeah, a lot of the improvements we have today have been labelled as an "improvement" not because it's better in any way, but because it makes some guy rich.



I can understand taking off your shoes to do exercises, where the only danger is one you make yourself... But to let the fate of my toes to fall into(or out of) the hands of some guy with sweaty palms walking around with plates in a gym isn't exactly worth walking barefoot for.

On another note, most of my cardio is done barefoot now, since it's summer I just run or walk around a soccer pitch for awhile.
 

"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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I-tallionStallion

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A little slow on the way down...can you not slam it down in your gym? You waste energy doing that


-----wait a second...this is like a YEAR OLD! Espi...what the heck? You wasted one of my precious posts :p
 
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