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.
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.
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.
this is very true.Originally posted by flexion_
Well an understanding of how women think is useful.
I think the message here is to not try and figure how a women thinks by what she says.
We always see these posts asking about something a women said and for a translation - most of the time what they say has nothing to do with they do...
I liked alot of what you said, but the only thing I would like to warn about is kissing.Originally posted by BrotherAP
If only we'd stop seeing threads by guys that are trying so hard to understand women!
I agree with you completely. We don't need to understand women. I'd go further and say that many people here are way too focused on "what women like" to the point that they are supplicating worse than the AFC who showers them in gifts. These men have devoted all of their time, energy, and creative thought to pleasing women.
I don't even think it's necessary to know if she's interested or not. If I like a girl, I'm going to hit on her. Either she is receptive or non receptive. If she doesn't outright reject me the first time, maybe I'll give it a second shot. When it becomes too much of a hassle, I stop trying.
The focus is on me. What do I want? Do I want her to go out with me? Then I am going to get her to do it. End of story. If she doesn't, oh well.
I've been so free since I stopped checking for signs of interest. It's a waste of time anyway, as I've learned, since SOME GIRLS WONT EVEN SHOW ANY 'SIGNS OF INTEREST' I feel bad for the guy who has ever given up on a woman because she was too subtle with her signals.
My only test for interest is the kiss test. If she kisses me, she must like me. Otherwise, it's probably time for me to move on.
That doesn't mean that you have to be stupid about them though! I went to a restaraunt with some friends the other day, and the hostess was smoking hot. After we sat down, she came to our table just to flirt with us - but I noticed her touching my friend on his arm as he left. Instantly I knew that she was digging him, so as soon as she walked away I casually mentioned to him "I think she likes you" Everybody thought I was wrong, because they hadn't trained themselves to see these things the way I have. Well, she ended up at that friends apartment that night. I was definitely not wrong.
Good tip, 00Kevin. I like the way you think.
BrotherAP
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.