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.
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.
You clearly know f**k all about women if you honestly believe this.Babnik said:No. Bad experience.
Very few girls do the chasing game and enjoy being jealous.
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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.
Same as me...BrokenLeftWing said:if I see something I like, I look. Even point out how good other females look to the girls i'm with.
Maybe because I take it from experience, and not from basement nerds' advice?Ripper said:You clearly know f**k all about women if you honestly believe this.
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.
I know I am right. There is the real life and there is SoSuave.Teflon_Mcgee said:I think Babnik is right.
If you're with a girl that's anything more than casual then don't be blatantly checking out other women.
I think the first poster talks about a girl you are already are dating, or at least that was my first impression when I read the post, and then yes, I mention other good looking girls that are around and stuff like that.Babnik said:I know I am right. There is the real life and there is SoSuave.
In real life when I talk to a single girl and then a hottie comes by and I suddenly stop giving attention to the girl I was talking to in order to look at another babe - the original babe BAILS.
Maybe this crap works on super hot spoiled brats in LA, but I am not in LA and girls here aren't like that!