"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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"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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Sweet.
 

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Originally posted by Eternal
crazykid

Ha ha ha.:D

For some strange reason, I still wanna call you Crazykid everytime I see you around.
 

"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.

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Originally posted by Spike_the_Dragon
Ha ha ha.:D

For some strange reason, I still wanna call you Crazykid everytime I see you around.
That's fine. I don't really care what I'm called as long as it isn't "@sshole." :p
 

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Originally posted by Eternal
That's fine. I don't really care what I'm called as long as it isn't "@sshole." :p


...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."
 

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“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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Originally posted by penkitten
well how rude!
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Stephanie from "Full House" saying that?
 

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Originally posted by Eternal
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Stephanie from "Full House" saying that?
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.
 

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Originally posted by Eternal
Did anyone else have flashbacks to Stephanie from "Full House" saying that?
i did, have mercy!
 

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Originally posted by Giovanni Casanova
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.
yes and then we watch roseanne...
 

"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.

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Originally posted by Mr. Delicious
scandalicious

Is that a word :confused:
Not a real word but close enough.
 

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blasé

The accent makes it sound cool. :cool:

It's not the word-of-the-day on my calender... *whisles*..
 

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awesomicklmaticness

or

just plain ol', "Me".
 

"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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