TDOT
Don Juan
MACKADOCIOUS!
"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.
Describe yourself in 1 word
- Thread starter diplomatic_lie
- Start date
"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.
LucidDreamer
Don Juan
transcendent
jakethasnake
Master Don Juan
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2001
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Sweet.
Spike_the_Dragon
Senior Don Juan
Ha ha ha.
For some strange reason, I still wanna call you Crazykid everytime I see you around.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Spike_the_Dragon
Senior Don Juan
Originally posted by Eternal
That's fine. I don't really care what I'm called as long as it isn't "@sshole."
...Yeah, you're getting alot of that these days huh?
Oh well. If I post on the main forum I get called that and worse alot. Really, I don't give a **** what people call me because they don't even know me.
What can I say... "Empty heads have long tongues."
penkitten
Master Don Juan
mom
Spike_the_Dragon
Senior Don Juan
...Poor Gio.
Run, Gio, run!
penkitten
Master Don Juan
well how rude!Originally posted by Spike_the_Dragon
...Poor Gio.
Run, Gio, run!
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.
Giovanni Casanova
Master Don Juan
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- 47
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- Hiding in Penkitten's Linen Closet
Her daughter thinks she IS Stephanie from Full House. I don't know where she watches it... does that come on Nick at Nite or something? That show is old.
penkitten
Master Don Juan
i did, have mercy!
penkitten
Master Don Juan
yes and then we watch roseanne...
Mr. Delicious
Senior Don Juan
scandalicious
Is that a word
Is that a word
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
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.
Giovanni Casanova
Master Don Juan
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Not a real word but close enough.Originally posted by Mr. Delicious
scandalicious
Is that a word
GlutusMaximus86
Master Don Juan
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Reserved
m4a1
Senior Don Juan
blasé
The accent makes it sound cool.
It's not the word-of-the-day on my calender... *whisles*..
The accent makes it sound cool.
It's not the word-of-the-day on my calender... *whisles*..
idiot_boyfriend
Senior Don Juan
awesomicklmaticness
or
just plain ol', "Me".
or
just plain ol', "Me".
"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.