Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Because i haven't been in your situation yet i would like you to follow Atom Smasher's advice and set those boundaries. Take some form of action and let us know what happened because i think i can learn a valuable lesson out of your situation.49au said:So far she's called twice and sent 8 texts over the next hour.
She still pretends to have no idea why I'm turned off.
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.
A woman can say that all she wants, that doesn't mean I have to accept wh0rish behavior. She has the right to walk, but I have the right to reject bullsh!t like the above.PairPlusRoyalFlush said:No point in calling her out, all you will get is "we weren't exclusive" and "stop being so insecure"
Regardless, I'd been fvcking her and hanging out with her for 3 months. Does that give me the right to complete dominion over her? Hardly. But if she wants to spin other plates, it needs to be done discreetly and with respect.That being said - I made a joke last night about getting an island girl pregnant on my recent trip, and she said, "You cheated! You know I'll slice your balls off."
I smiled and told her that I'd like to see her try.
But what's significant about her use of the word "cheated" (even though she knew it was a joke), is it tells me that in her mind, we are exclusive. And if we're exclusive in her view, then she should not act that way.
OK, I misunderstood you then. I did keep my "breakup" voicemail very short, and ignored her calls/texts trying to get details (and argue points, I'm sure). All I really said was that she knows how I feel about respect, she openly disrespected me, and that is not something I'll tolerate. Then the usual crap about how I'm not mad, and we can still be friends, but the romantic part is done.PairPlusRoyalFlush said:I'm not saying you're wrong. You're not. That's just what the slvt will tell you if you call her out, so dont bother.
49au said:I've been seeing a girl for about 3 months now.
Then why are you getting all bent out of shape? She is just your fvck buddy.....so she should be treated as such!!49au said:She is not my girlfriend, as I said, I've avoided putting a label on it.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.