"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.

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Do others do this? Is it helpfull?

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If I meet a women and I see she is not in a good mood or is upset I will tend to leave her alone and get away from her. Not because I don't want to be around her, sometimes one of my first reactions is to ask her what her problems are and try to help. But these days if I meet a women who is mad or annoyed at something I will not spend a lot of time around her.

I saw a women yesterday I had not seen in over 20 days and I was happy to see her, I had some free time and I could have spent an hour with her. But she was in a crappy mood so instead of sitting with her I told her I had to go and left after 15 minutes.

I was told that you should not hang around a women you are interested in if she is upset because she could associate those feelings with you. And worse still she could make you her emotional tampon.

So these days if a women is huffing over something or appears to be too busy I will just bail and say, see you later. Of course if she is crying and really needs a friend I will stay but I am talking about those moods women get into where they just want to complain or b!tch.

Anyway I wanted to know if other guys that did this have found it to be a good practice or is it not a good thing to do?
 

"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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Canadian Catnip said:
I was told that you should not hang around a women you are interested in if she is upset because she could associate those feelings with you. And worse still she could make you her emotional tampon.
Its a good rule but you got to ask yourself this question: If they are interested in you, shouldn't just seeing you brighten their day??!!. Think of this in reversal: If you had a crappy day and some knockout bombshell started paying attention to you, wouldn't that make your day feel a little bit better?!

I have seen the difference between girls who are really interested in me and those who are not. Usually if they are in a crappy mood and they see me then will change their behaviour and become more cheerful. If they are lukewarm interested or not at all, then they will continue with their bad mood around you and try to infect you in a negative way. If a woman doesn't try to make you feel welcome, I say take off and let her stay in the cold rain alone.
 

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You're doing the right thing Catnip.

However don't even stay if she's crying about something unless its a relative dying or something else you know of thats serious in her life and she's already proven her worth to you as a friend or potential love interest by being there for you when you needed a lift.

What I'm saying is don't comfort her if she's crying over some el lameo chick bullsh!t that you yourself wouldn't cry over.
 

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DJDamage said:
Its a good rule but you got to ask yourself this question: If they are interested in you, shouldn't just seeing you brighten their day??!!. Think of this in reversal: If you had a crappy day and some knockout bombshell started paying attention to you, wouldn't that make your day feel a little bit better?!

I have seen the difference between girls who are really interested in me and those who are not. Usually if they are in a crappy mood and they see me then will change their behavior and become more cheerful. If they are lukewarm interested or not at all, then they will continue with their bad mood around you and try to infect you in a negative way. If a woman doesn't try to make you feel welcome, I say take off and let her stay in the cold rain alone.
I never put it into my post above but after I had enough of her mood and decided to leave she suddenly brightened up and made this don't go look.

Unfortunately I had already told her I had to be somewhere right away so I couldn't go back on that. But that look she gave me was part of the reason why I posted the question in the first place, It got me wondering if I had done the right thing by leaving.

She might not have felt cheered up to see me at first but I felt she was sad that I had decided to leave.
 

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Good Job

You've done your homework.

She'll get over it soon, mostly likely she was just in a bitter mood and needed to vent. Once she's in a better mood, I GUARANTEE she will call and apologize. And now that she's in a better mood, she's going to associate those feelings with you.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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