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.
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.
yeah it's a tough thing to take on, but... no choice.Interceptor said:... men here must learn to PROVIDE ALL THESE THINGS FOR THEMSELVES...
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
True however no one wants to take time or effort to PREPARE such meals and there are costs associated with such preparation. The well to do can afford at least a lifestyle where someone has time to prep food and often can afford a houskeeper to help. Time really is money.aliasguy said:Fat comes from too much KFC, et al., which, incidentally, is MORE expensive than balanced, quality food easily bought MUCH more cheaply down at the supermarket.
If you want to blame big ol' fat chicks on poor quality food, that's ok, but remember BETTER quality food is readily available to them, and more affordably.
Oh bullcrap. There have been men like that since the dawn of civilization. What is it with the "DJ community" and this belief that the entire male population was made up of Conan the Barbarian clones before the 1960s? It's no different than it was 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 years ago. Same as the "back in the good ol' days" mentality - there were no "good ol' days". It's a myth every generation has.joekerr31 said:see in the old days a guy would say something like that and any guy within 20 feet of him would have said "hey sally, tuck in your panties." - it wouldn't necessarily be 'mean', but it would be a verbal slap to remind the guy not to act like a woman.
but over the past 20 years and the switch to political correctness, no one says anything anymore. people just shake their head and move on.
so this guy goes around saying dumb sh*t and has no idea that he is behaving like a woman.
kind of sad really.
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
You're right to a point but on this specifically you're wrong. I can clearly remember the time when men didn't cry in public, ever, for example. YOU bit your lip until it bled or excused yourself, or did whatever it took.Master Bates said:Oh bullcrap. There have been men like that since the dawn of civilization. What is it with the "DJ community" and this belief that the entire male population was made up of Conan the Barbarian clones before the 1960s? It's no different than it was 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 years ago. Same as the "back in the good ol' days" mentality - there were no "good ol' days". It's a myth every generation has.
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.
everywomanshero said:Dudes, why on earth would you want to live up to someone else's standard of "what being a man means". WHo gives a ****? If at the end of the day I am living up to my own personal values and beliefs, then I'm "being a man" in my own way. I really couldn't be bothered to care if I am "acting feminine" by eating some hot girl's snatch and telling her it tastes great when it really smells so bad I am about to gag.
So some guy who sits around jerking his pork sword to John Wayne is going to set the standard? Not for me! I think we should each live up to our own standards, it's fine to be inspired, but when one feels he has to live up to some external standards I think that is cause for concern.
Interceptor said:...and they lack certin Rites of Passage that can help propel them into the correct productive, positive, and healthy masculine mind set.
men cry in public now?bigjohnson said:You're right to a point but on this specifically you're wrong. I can clearly remember the time when men didn't cry in public, ever, for example. YOU bit your lip until it bled or excused yourself, or did whatever it took.
Now it's 'sensitive' and people comment on it as if it's an OK thing, in the past men had the good sense to not notice if the guy who'd just lost his father had a few bouts of incontinence for a week or so.
Yeah, also cry in the restroom too.Master Bates said:men cry in public now?
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.