"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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EX2 System and the other woman

lostinnyc

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I'm wondering if I can apply the EX2 system in my situation. However, she's basically the other woman. It's been 2 weeks and 1 day since I started no contact, and I'm beginning to doubt if she will contact me first. The EX2 systems suggest that you should break no contact in about 4 weeks, and act like you're over everything and want to be friends but that seems kind of afc to me. Shouldn't I wait until she contacts me, even though it might take months?

BTW, even though she's the other woman, I miss her so much. I don't know why, I just can't seem to get over her.

Background:

So here's the gist of it. I've been dating and sleeping with a girl I met from work (she no longer works there) for about 4 months now. She's 23 and I'm 30. She knows that I live with my gf of 10+ years, but that didn't stop her from coming over when my gf was out of town, or coming over in the morning when she is at work. The sex has been fantastic, and we act like a real couple when we go on dates, holding hands and kissing etc. I was starting to devlop real feelings for her.

I know she is also sleeping with other guys, but I'm ok with that because, let's face it, who am I to say anything?

However, she ended things with a text message recently, saying that I was telling her my feelings too much, and that her and I want different things, and that it is getting too real, with real feelings being involved, and that she hopes I understand.

I thought it was really disrespectful to end things via text, so I asked if I could call her. She acted kind of hostile, saying "there's nothing to talk about." I stayed calmed, didn't react, and said I just want to hear your voice one last time. So she said "fine, wait until I get home, shower and eat, and then you can call me if you want"

We talked on the phone, I tried to plead my case, and even said I would break up with my gf, but she basically kept coming up excuses why we shouldn't be together, such as she "doesn't even know when she can see me because she's so busy" and "even if everything worked out, I can't trust you, because you cheated on your gf".

I sent her a goodbye text, basically saying I'm sorry things didn't work out, you're the only one I want to be with, and that I wish her the best.

She sent a text back the next day, saying I don't have to apologise for anything, but that I'm acting like we're never going to speak again. I told her that I've been crying all day, and that talking to her but not being able to be with her is too painful, and I told her we can't be friends (very afc, I know). There was no response to that, and I haven't texted her or called her since. That was 2 weeks ago.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Crow

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It sounds like you are having a hard time. The facts you shared leading up to this point don't sound too promising either in terms of "your case." My opinion is that the sooner you can move on, the better off you will be.
 

SharinganUser

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WTF is EX2 System?

Stop acting like a tool and start acting like the guy she wanted to bang in the first place.
 

KarmaSutra

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Matt Hudson's "Get your Ex back" system.

It's like Deangelo's work. A trifling of other guy's attitudes and mannerisms. Only this fvck twists it so you can get back someone else's trash.
 
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