"The Kiss of Death Mistake"

You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?

Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.

One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.

Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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do yall trust women?

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And if you slightly dont trust them, why all the questions about this or that?

Idk...im just frustrated at the moment.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"

When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.

Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.

Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.

The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.

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I trust women, and if they break my trust I don't speak to them again. Always best to give them the benefit of the doubt at the beginning. Innocent until proven guilty.

A lot of guys take the "guilty until proven innocent" approach, and the problem with that is you lose all of the girls who were innocent to begin with (aka the ones you actually want).
 

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i give them as much benefit of the doubt as anyone when I first meet them. However, I don't think I will ever trust a woman to love me unconditionally. In that way, I would never believe a girl who said such a thing.
 

"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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There are things I trust about them:
1) I trust that they will demonstrate their true feeling through their actions
2) I trust that they will do what they perceive to be in their own best interest
3) I trust that when they say they will act differently from above, that they may be sincere and even believe what they are saying, but, the vast majority of the time...
(Back to 1)
 

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I trust every new woman I meet in life in any capacity 0%.

THEN each woman has a chance to gain my trust by her actions and build up.

Generally the best might make it up to 70%. To get past that mark with me there must be something major come up in MY life where I need them to go above and beyond for ME, with nothing it for themselves, and they do it and come through for me. My mother is the only one who has ever passed this mark and got to 100%. I really don't look for any others to make it there the rest of my life.
 

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Zarky said:
I trust certain individuals, whether they're men or women. And certain other individuals I don't trust.
I don't trust people who are one sex pretending to be another.
 

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From my experience with loads of women... No i do not.
 

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I trust women if they are close friends. My close friends I know will have my back, man or woman.

With regards to relationships, no I dont really trust women. Maybe Ill meet one in the future I can trust. But at this point in my life I do not trust them with regards to relationships.
 

"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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logicallefty said:
Generally the best might make it up to 70%. To get past that mark with me there must be something major come up in MY life where I need them to go above and beyond for ME, with nothing it for themselves, and they do it and come through for me. My mother is the only one who has ever passed this mark and got to 100%. I really don't look for any others to make it there the rest of my life.
My mother is the only woman I'd trust. In fact she is probably the only person in the world I'd trust full stop
 

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I think some of us are interpreting the word "trust" in different ways.

I use "trust" to mean "trust that she will behave honestly with me."

If by "trust" you mean "trust that she will treat me like an equal and we can have a type of friendship as between brothers," then no way in fricking HELL.
 
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