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.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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'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.