"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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he told me he's done marrying women. Of course he told me that last time too. A bit too naïve for his own good.

Glad i'm here learning and being very picky these days.
I told my dad that we should catch girls like that asleep in the night and super-glue their vulva shut, that would surely drop their value quickly!
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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IF they ever suggest marriage counseling, use it as a chance to start stashing CASH in your office desk drawer. They will never believe anything is wrong with THEM, IF it ever comes up. Depending on your income, I drug out the deal for about a year and stashed 20k....
 

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My first tell was when she stopped complaining about something that used to bother her.

There were many tells that I didn't see as our relationship didn't change that much. We were still sexually active right up until the bomb dropped. Wonder if her lover (now husband) knew that?

SH
 

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We were still sexually active right up until the bomb dropped.

Didn't the sex change, though? That was always my take on the very end of relationships, the girl goes from a screaming maniac in bed to something more like a bored hooker.
 

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glass half full said:
So now I am wondering myself, are there any warning signs that can tip us men that a chick might do this crap?
There are always warning signs, some you just don't realize until schitt hits the fan.

When my exwife dropped the "i'm done with this marriage" bomb on me, there were warning signs way before hand that I never picked up on.

Some were:

-Happy hours after work became more frequent and lasted longer.

-She pretty much encouraged me to go hang out with my buddies and spend more time doing my things.

-She started shopping at a mall that she never would go to before. Turns out this mall was closer to the "new" guys house and I imagine it was there meeting spot.

-She would come home from work later and her excuse was she spending more time at the gym.

-Nights out with her girlfriends were more frequent.

-They start drinking more & eating less.
 

"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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Bible_Belt said:
We were still sexually active right up until the bomb dropped.

Didn't the sex change, though? That was always my take on the very end of relationships, the girl goes from a screaming maniac in bed to something more like a bored hooker.
Nope, exactly the same. Was good, 2 - 3 times per week and she'd always have an O.
This woman was a bit of a freak though. Loved me, but she was a user and needed further help with her career.



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Bible_Belt said:
We were still sexually active right up until the bomb dropped.

My last ex/LTR was like this as well. Still had Os/enjoyed it to the last day I saw her.

Truth be told, I was losing interest in her the last few months and she totally picked up on it.
 

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VladPatton said:
If she's a natural born liar, you will not know jack shıt and she'll blind side you in a major, major way when she leaves or cheats on you. You can't notice signs if they're not there.
There are always signs but men refuse to see them or ignore them. It's after when the sh1t goes down that they think back and go "oh yeah, why didn't I see that coming she was doing that."
 

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May_Day said:
There are always signs but men refuse to see them or ignore them. It's after when the sh1t goes down that they think back and go "oh yeah, why didn't I see that coming she was doing that."
May be true, but it's hard to be on bullshıt watch 24/7. It gets tiring. Eventually you gotta eat, sleep and pay some bills.
 

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In my case although things were going very well on the surface, there were a few signs, most of which could have gone either way - one in particular was that her phone was busy but she left it through in the kitchen and dealt with it there when previously she'd have it in the living room with us.

I don't do Facebook, so I never bothered with what she got up to there but she might well have been spending more time on that?

She completely tidied the flat, got our name on the entry and cleared-out her wardrobe. She had talked about changing her style a while before, so I just thought she had finally made her decision and was going to be doing some shopping.

However, the clincher involved a shirt of mine - She liked it a lot (on me and off) and would often wear it when lounging about at home, whenever she washed it, she would "freshen" it up again by putting it on during sex, then have me wear it out with her the next day usually ending-up with it going back on her again during sex when we got home - she loved/was comforted by the smell on it.

Well, one morning I opened the wardrobe and here it was, washed, neatly pressed and put back in with the rest of my shirts. That's when I knew she was disengaging and it couldn't be long. I was right - It was less than a week before I was done with her for good - I'd previously resolved that she'd not get another chance with me, so was ready to bail the moment she started acting-up.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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