"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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Dating women who aren't as smart as you

bigneil

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Have you ever found yourself in a relationship with a girl you are really attracted to, but slowly but surely you realize she is not that bright?

At first you might think: I'm smarter, she's prettier, so it all balances out! It doesn't, at least in my experience. In reality they end up getting annoyed by your brain. They think: "He thinks he's more smarter than I am!" I guess the saying "Water seeks it's own level" applies.

Has anyone dealt with this situation and did it work out for them?
 

"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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element0

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I don't mind if they aren't book smart, but if they aren't smart enough to get clever jokes/innuendo/sarcasm, then I rarely make it past the first interaction.

Actually, I have a soft spot for book smart girls, who have little common sense. There's something about that combination that gets me going.
 

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girl i'm seeing now is really smart. studying english history and all that. she wants to be an english teacher. smart girls really turn me on. i never date dumb girls.. it's a major turn off. i find myself pretty intelligent and i want equal amount of intelligence in my partner.
 

vatoloco

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bigneil said:
They think: "He thinks he's more smarter than I am!" I guess the saying "Water seeks it's own level" applies.
Hmm...

;)
 

"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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Note: I was intentionally using bad grammar (more smarter) as a form of humor.
 

ARrocket

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element0 said:
I don't mind if they aren't book smart, but if they aren't smart enough to get clever jokes/innuendo/sarcasm, then I rarely make it past the first interaction.
This is pretty much my most desired non-physical trait.
 

bigneil

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ARrocket said:
Somehow I think using "it's" instead of "its" was unintentional ;)
You got me there. Maybe that b*tch was smarter after all...

Seriously though, the apostrophe is the least of my worries.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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