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.
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.
i thought it to be a good example, being that quantum physics is the ultimate "what if" topicOriginally posted by SynTheUnscathed
Stop discussing quantum physics with people to make a point. Half the people here have no clue what you are talking about.
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.
I never heard Dr. Drew give an explanation of the stoner voice; it’s so subtle that it’s probably hard to describe and takes a good ear. I could never figure out how they picked up on it, and I still can’t, although I’m getting better at my stoner radar. However, other voices are easy to discern. Virgins characteristically have a squeeky clean voice accompanied by anxiety and meth addicts have a white trashy voice.Silverback82:
did they say how their voices sound?
For some reason, the childish voice only applies to severe sexual abuse. Not abuse in general, not sexual abuse in general, but severe sexual abuse. Most women who were abused, sexually abused, don’t have a childish voice. The vast majority don’t. But it works the other way around. If you run across a woman with a childish voice, then she was sexually abused to the severity that (for whatever reason) she developed a childish voice.smoove:
I know for a fact tho it's not entirely accurate. I've known several girls who were abused and don't have kiddy voices.