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.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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.
Ask her to hold herself open and give you feedback; it takes a team effort. A lot of times experienced women who havent shaved like to do that (hold it open) anyway, so you dont inadvertently pull her pubic hair inside her. If she's just lying there not helping in any way, including no verbal feedback, its partially her fault. So, be embarressed for both of you because you both failed at it ;-)bamboozled_panfish said:
my thoughts exactly broselfmademob said:
Maybe that was the problem - she had her legs closed!!!azanon said:
TROLL alert!!!! You guys are being bamboozled by DJ Bamboozled!!!bamboozled_panfish said:
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.
Yeah, practice putting a condom on other guys - great tip DJ cyp6 --- NOT!!!cyp6 said:
Any math guys want to chime on on the proper foreplay to sex ratio?? Based on my man calculator it should be 0 minutes of foreplay per 60 minutes of flesh pounding!!!Last Man Standing said:TROLL alert!!!! You guys are being bamboozled by DJ Bamboozled!!!
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.
That was a good line Bro - but they actually do have classes in high school that teach this that my tax dollars are paying for!!! Maybe he missed the class!LA_Chico said: