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.
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.
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.
hahahaha toucheOriginally posted by lebRambo
haha. Living once could have been a f*ckload shorter had the whole std thing not turned out right.![]()
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.
I hate to sound insensitive. But, it's your fault, live with it.Originally posted by MicCheck1-2
Yes. Me and my boys boys all ran a train on this dude's girlfriend who was leaving town the next day. (Everyone wore condoms of course) It was the worst day in my life. I still feel guilty because that's how I lost my virginity.![]()
And I didn't even get to climax because the chick kept saying she wanted to go home and the rubber wasn't sensitive enough.![]()
Please, if you had 6 nice looking chicks ready to get naked and suck your ****, your gonna say no?? ........... yea, right!!Originally posted by joekerr31
you people are f*cked in the head. im no conservative christian, but my god, don't you guys have any shame? are people just pieces of meat?
this whole thread and everyone who has "run train" are absolutely pathetic.
any woman who would behave like this is absolutely pathetic as well.
beyond sad.
J
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.