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Don Juan
- Joined
- May 4, 2007
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Is it just me or is it natural?
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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.
Master Bates said:Why couldn't we have evolved to keep our nuts on the inside? They're just annoying.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Quiksilver said:It's the Coriolis effect. The spinning of the earth causes a centrifugal force to occur and pull one nut away from the other. In the southern hemisphere, your right nut would hang lower, just like your toilet spins one way in the lower hemisphere and the other way in the northern. The closer you get to the equator, the more even your nuts are.
On a more serious note, as long as you can see them you should be happy.
In all fairness there's no reason it has to be that way, it's just a sort of unfortunate anatomical fact. If your liver had to be drooping out in a air cooled sac to function correctly it would be another sort of silly feature.Aboleo said:Because internal body heat would cause sterility.
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 agree, would be so much easier if our nuts were internal. Then don't have to worry about getting kicked.Master Bates said:Why couldn't we have evolved to keep our nuts on the inside? They're just annoying.