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.
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.
So what... if there WAS someone worth hooking up with on that trip, she would?T-Mack said:However, tomorrow she is leaving to go on a school camping trip with a bunch of people for a couple of weeks. Before we started hooking up she said she was definitely going to hook up with someone on this trip. Recently, now she says she will not hook up with anyone and says there is no one worth hooking up with on the trip, and that she likes me.
If you don't trust her, why are you with her? And what, you're going to believe her if she says she didn't hook up on that trip? You'd only be going on her WORD, and that means nothing. Like, what'll give you 100% confidence that she's telling the truth? You don't trust her now, what's going to change?She also says I guess you don’t trust me. I say no and tell her it is because you cheated on your last boyfriend. I tell her if you can make it back without hooking up on this trip, I will be able to trust you.
By now, you already have enough to go on.We have a lot of things in common and get along really great. The difference is the weed and lifestyle. I smoke occasionally and she smokes all the time. She also lives an overall unhealthy lifestyle, doesn’t eat well or workout that often.
You already know what to do.I have to admit I am bothered by her past history, some cheating and drugs involved. I am wondering is this worth pursuing or should I just break it off with her?
^^^^^^Listen to himGettinLuckyAintLuck said:If history has taught us anything, it's that history repeats itself. This girl will cheat on you, and more than likely will take drugs again.... save yourself the heartache and break her heart asap.
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.