"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Dethroning social value

Bossman90

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In the club scenes, we tend to go against guys such as promoters and Djs. A lot of these guys are super low value but are perceived as "High value" because they know a lot of people which ironically does not amount to ****, because you can know a lot of people and still not be cool. So basically in relating this to highschool what is a good way to engage in this popularity contest and have women believe you to be the jock in this situation and them to be the nerd(lower value guy, not perceived as cool).
 
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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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There is a highschool forum. Also, the idea should never be to make someone feel low value. If you want to feel high value, you actually have to be high value. In other words, work out, socialize and make a lot of friends, work hard, and be successful. I don't understand your club analogy.
 

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maybe you shouldn't view people in highschool terms when you are an adult ?
 

TillTheEndOfTime

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The first step to having high social value is not caring about your social value.
 

dap

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TillTheEndOfTime said:
The first step to having high social value is not caring about your social value.
....Works well for the homeless guy I just passed on my way to the club.
 

"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.

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The Gambler

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dap said:
....Works well for the homeless guy I just passed on my way to the club.
Give that homeless guy a $100 bill and see how quickly it turns into a pile of empty beer and whiskey bottles, worth only what the deposit value is.... Give someone who has their sh!t together the same $100 bill and see what happens.... Ya know?

The Gambler
 

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dap said:
....Works well for the homeless guy I just passed on my way to the club.
Yeah, those drunks go downtown and literally walk over homeless guys as they loudmouth their way to and from the bars. They just don't get the hypocrisy when they later blast homeless as all a bunch of alcoholics or crazy ungrateful worthless nothings living off the sweat of others.

Gotta wonder how stupid someone would have to be to repeat the current mantra of "feed the homeless." How about "house the homeless?" No way! That might take some real effort. Besides, the givers of "charity" think they're better than those they give to. They never heard, and would never believe, "there but for the grace of God go I." So of course, the takers don't deserve meaningful assistance from any givers. Just token self-flattery.

Again, look who's doing the talking. Petty employers who, instead of using their investment money to do hiring and buy materials, put their funds into the high-tech stock bubble, then into the real estate bubble, laid off workers, drove up rents, made men homeless, and ruined the credit market so those homeless men couldn't defraud lenders like those loudmouth barhoppers did.

Dap, you're an idiot. Go soak your head.
 
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