"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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Getting a woman to chase after you

skinnyguy

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I'm starting to think that the only way of knowing a woman is interested is if she's literally chasing after you.

10 years ago I would "pursue" women and the ones who welcomed my advances I'd end up dating.

Now it seems that the only way a woman is interested is if you're super Alpha in which case she'll be blowing up your phone all the time. Pursuing women doesn't work at all.

Hitting up a girl on FB or Tinder seems to rarely if ever work, because you're in a position of weakness. Online game has essentially ended for men.

So, I'm starting to think that I should only be paying attention to women who are trying to pull my pants off because the ones who are 1/2 interested I'll never get into bed with. And you can't get those 1/2 interested girls to be fully interested because they know within 5 seconds if they want to eff you or not.
 

"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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You Do Have the Gay Option

What happened with homegirl you met on the plane that you're having a budding "relatinship," with due to your "solid texting game," and the chick from Dallas?
 

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Maximus Rex said:
What happened with homegirl you met on the plane that you're having a budding "relatinship," with due to your "solid texting game," and the chick from Dallas?
You're turning into another PlayHer Man with your negative tone.

The girl I met with on the plane, she's really interested in me. I lost contact with the Dallas girl.
 

Dust 2 Dust

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I agree with your points. Messaging HB's online has never worked for me. Spam blasting POF and OKCupid to bone 5's and low 6's doesn't count. Every woman that I've hooked up with online has messaged me first.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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