MatureDJ
Master Don Juan
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I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Surely you mean a post-photoshop version of him?mrRuckus said:Show me her instead of the post-photoshop version of her.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Well hell, I didn't know that. I just looked at the picture after assuming it was just surrounded by you go girl jibberish.Bokanovsky said:Surely you mean a post-photoshop version of him?
The LBTG community is now deemed to be protected under the political correctness umbrella. Thus, they are considered beyond criticism. If you are critical, you will be treated much like a backward thinking Neanderthal racist bigot. I'm almost surprised my comments are not censored on this forum for not being fully supportive.Maximummax said:the interesting thing i found is the people supporting that "thing" and praising it as some kind of heroism.....
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.
I saw a recent interview where he/she/it said she intended to keep it, at least for now, as long as it doesn't get in the way. At this point, he/she/it saw no reason to get rid of it, but things could change.glass half full said:Does he/she/it still have a wang? This might make for some interesting restroom visits from others...lol