"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Do you think women judge a potential husband on the basis of how much work he will do helping with child care, or whether he is a Chad?

MatureDJ

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I was reading this, and it got me interested:
This would seem to indicate that a man doing a lot of child care would be desirable as a husband:
Studies have also found that fathers who work long hours have wives who do more child care, while mothers who work long hours have husbands who sleep more and watch lots of television ...
But then over at the YouTube channel FaceAndLMS, the message to seems to be that the only thing that matters is whether than man is a Chad.
 
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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It's been fairly well established that women will (generally) pick the guy who will help out as a husband, but will bang the Chad short term. Different goals, different dating strategies. I think this is somewhat skewed by the fact that the Chad-guy won't commit to her. If he was willing, maybe more girls would like to keep him around. Maybe not.

I actually think women get smarter as they get older, just as men do, and make better choices. They learn from their mistakes. Although guys around here have always preferred to characterize that as "She hit the wall, so she settled for a beta". Eh, as with most things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
 

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Looks will always come first. Part of the reason is that she can tell his looks right away. The other reason is, if he's not bang-able, it's game over for a potential relationship (or hookup).

She might not be able to tell his potential parenting skills right away*. That would take more time to figure out.

Once she picks a potential LTR/husband, there will likely be some compromises. He might not be Chad or even Chadlite. He might just be a higher-tier normie (e.g. male 6.5), but perhaps he has a good job, high credit score, low Norwood number rating, at or close to 5'12" in height, and is kind to animals lol.

*Although she might have an intuition about it.
 
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This Chad nonsense is ridiculous, as very few women are ever going to have the opportunity to have an unbelievably attractive man want to bed them. Most attractive guys you see in the real world don't have tons of women falling at their feet to be with them, unless the girls are bat**** crazy or have no other options. People tend to date those who are more or less roughly on par with them, so if one attractive man doesn't do it for her she can always find another.

A woman is looking for a guy she is attracted to and if she has any degree of maturity she will look for a guy who has other stuff going for him. A good job, financially stable, intelligent/educated, has similar interests to her, mature/drama free, is a nice guy, etc.
 

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Chad amoging a manlet. Chad adds insult to injury by pulling out the clippers and making him a baldcel maxresdefault.jpg
 

"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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