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Master Don Juan
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Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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.
Compuuuter Looooveready123 said:nah it's O-dog from Menace to Society
The kid is 16. The guy needs to give the kid a break. I don't know about you, but I was pretty mixed up at that age.Rex Man said:As much of a d!ck as you may think he is, I'm kinda with Obsidian on this one. Whats the point of asking an internet forum (filled with dudes, no less) if you you're good looking or not?
Don't get me wrong, we all sometimes wonder exactly where we are on the looks scale; but you can't let a few slvt buckets bring you down. If you're gonna be a DJ, you're gonna need thicker skin than that.
Mate you have an african american nose, be proud...and my teeth are more crooked than that and I don't have a problem.Comeback kid said:Im worried about something. Sure i can make my inner self better and im much more confident around girls, but theres a big problem. Im confused if im ugly or not. Many people called me this when i was younger. I don't know what to do about, because there is nothing i can do. I have crooked teeth and a big nose, and thats the 2 worse things i could find about myself. Now what, am i suppose to give up on talking to girls now. Im not trying to sound gay by asking. But do you guys think im hopeless. These are my pictures. One girl online said i needed plastic surgery.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=550384583
http://www.myspace.com/59352507
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.