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.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
Bzzzzzt. Wrong. In my experience this is just not true unless the guy is inexperienced and needs some Mrs. Robinson style help.bukowski_merit said:..... - smart money is on it being better with than older woman...
nonsense... and i'm not talking about old like that... i'm talking - older than her teens...bigjohnson said:Bzzzzzt. Wrong. In my experience this is just not true unless the guy is inexperienced and needs some Mrs. Robinson style help.
So you're a lesbian?bukowski_merit said:i get off on another womans pleasure...
The reason 18 yo girls have trouble enjoying it is that they are with 18 yo boys, it has nothing to do with them. If they just do as I ask they will have a great time.bukowski_merit said:.... some immature girl who's going to "act out" how she thinks ....
Yes i'm a motha****in lesbian!bigjohnson said:So you're a lesbian?
I think most 18yo woman date and **** much older men... I still don't want to tell a girl what to do to get off and enjoy herself... she needs to know that going into it... i have a dominant sexual personality, but that doesn't mean i want to be a teacher...bigjohnson said:The reason 18 yo girls have trouble enjoying it is that they are with 18 yo boys, it has nothing to do with them. If they just do as I ask they will have a great time.
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.