"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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For LTR, when do you say 'I love you?'

When do you say 'I love you?'

  • When you think it's mutual

    Votes: 9 40.9%
  • after 3-6 months

    Votes: 4 18.2%
  • after 6-12 months

    Votes: 4 18.2%
  • after 1 year

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • never!

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Total voters
    22

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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After you kiss on the altar.

"...You may kiss the bride."
*kisses*
V: *leans in to whisper in ear* "I love you."


Yeah... I had to vote "never".
 

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7 months in, after she'd already said it 200 times.
 

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Vulpine said:
After you kiss on the altar.

"...You may kiss the bride."
*kisses*
V: *leans in to whisper in ear* "I love you."
speed dawg said:
7 months in, after she'd already said it 200 times.
LOL you guys! We all know that it should be said as a deathbed confession. LOL
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Well, since I'm never going to be standing on an altar, never.

I'm probably never getting married, and if I did, it would be in Vegas... baby. ('Cuz the chick I'd marry wouldn't settle for anything less than a Vegas wedding, of course.)

So, in a Vegas wedding, I wouldn't whisper that mush. :nono: I'd whisper something more like "let's go get lucky little darlin'" in an Elvis voice. Followed by: "can we hit the roulette table and the way up to the room?"

:rockon:

Dare to dream.
 

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When you understand what that word means to you and you know that you feel that way about someone.

The tricky part is knowing what that word means to you.
 

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LOL!

And here I was always taught that you should always tell a woman "I love you" in a DEAD or almost FORGOTTEN language like MAYAN or ARAMAIC----you know, or ANY other language used in a movie directed by Mel Gibson...:rockon:
 

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I’m sure we’ve all had chicks say it to us after a week or something. I remember thinking, like WTF, “…do you realize I have not even changed my underwear the entire time I’ve known you”.

Any overused phrase essentially becomes meaningless. The only time WE should say it is only AFTER she says it and only one tenth of times she does.

Oh, yeah, for effect, never say it as an immediate response to her saying it, and, when you do say it, make it random, out of the blue, not just after you boned her.
 

"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right 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.

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grinder said:
I’m sure we’ve all had chicks say it to us after a week or something. I remember thinking, like WTF, “…do you realize I have not even changed my underwear the entire time I’ve known you”.
lol
 

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Oh yea, to answer the question- ONLY after she says it to you, ONLY if you really feel it, the longer the better, and make sure you use it sparingly.
 

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I don't let her expect it. Sometimes I'll say "Yeah, I'm a lovable sorta person", or "and who could blame you really?" in a funny way. Then once in a while I'll get all serious and say it back.

If you make it unexpected there is a higher addiction factor.

Look at the experiments with mice and the reward machine to see how it works.
 

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I think George Costanza did it best when he yelled out "I love you" within the first minute of having sex in his office with the cleaning lady...
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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STR8UP said:
Oh yea, to answer the question- ONLY after she says it to you, ONLY if you really feel it, the longer the better, and make sure you use it sparingly.

Good advice. She ended up saying it first. I will remember to use it sparingly.
 

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When she walks in and your upto no good with her best friend haha :rockon:

Mindtrust
 

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I said it recently after a few months when I was in the ****. Got me out of it and I have hardly said it ever again even tho she does all the time, as it should be.
 
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