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.
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.
Why do guys commit to pond scum?This is about a woman i dated for about 1.5 years. Turned out she f$cked married man in the past. I found out about two occasions, there may be more. The minute I found out, I new I had to drop her, gradually I demoted her to a plate, and eventually had to drop her completely.
Now, at the time I found these things out, I told her what the F did you do married men for? She said that she didn't know that they were married and she found out later on about it. May be it is true, but still this single fact immediately disqualified her as an LTR material for me.
What do you guys think, maybe I was too hard on her? She was hurt by the fact that I was not OK with all of this. But yet she didn't try to hide it either.
I am still angry that this is true.Married men are attractive because it means other women approve of them
Here we go wit the dark red flag!She was in touch with a lot of dudes from her past
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.
Dont even do this.. tell her to **** off.If this woman doesnt respect other people's committed marriage boundaries, she would never respect yours if you married her.
Fvck her and bounce.
That is not true because I was married myself and I didn't see a dramatic rise in SMV because I got married, or any rise at all for that matter during the marriage. If your SMV/LMS is too low then your wife will not respect you and you'll have a bad marriage.Married men are attractive because it means other women approve of them
Women don't have the same moral structure as men because their feelings overrule, landing them in sticky situations which of course is never their fault
Women = Nature
Men= Order
Especialy when you know they are scumWhy do guys commit to pond scum?
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Praise the lordThat is not true because I was married myself and I didn't see a dramatic rise in SMV because I got married, or any rise at all for that matter during the marriage. If your SMV/LMS is too low then your wife will not respect you and you'll have a bad marriage.
I have a cousin who is in a bad marriage and he complains allot about his wife beating him up and I can tell you that he is definitely getting allot of women.
Its a glympse of whats is likely gonna happen.I don't want to sound like a devil's advocate but why is it wrong if she had slept with married men before you? Her past has nothing to do with her relationship with you in present. If she slept with married men so what? Haven't married men slept with women outside their relationships? I am not advocating anything but simply saying that it is not a deal breaker in itself. Look at the present. Is she good to you? If so, then enjoy and cherish that. I think we put too much value on rear view mirror ruining what is before us.
Peace!
Seedy character and not caring if she damage the other parties relationships.Its a glympse of whats is likely gonna happen.
It is also a indication of bad judgment and low inhibition. Those character traits dont often change.
The marriage failed badly and ended in divorce so how can you say that without being sarcastic?Praise the lord
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.
I remember being a kid. A tv show I watched, the protagonist began crushing some guys fiancé. No ****, it was the beginning of the degenerate society we see today. Not surprisingly, the protagonist gets pummeled even on the TV show.Especialy when you know they are scum
I totally agree.Its a glympse of whats is likely gonna happen.
It is also a indication of bad judgment and low inhibition. Those character traits dont often change.
Cousin was getting beaten up. Likely cucked but he had lots of women. Im glad he cared enuf for himself to take on the women.The marriage failed badly and ended in divorce so how can you say that without being sarcastic?
Dont get what you are saying. No he was not popular with the ladies before he met his wife. He was heartbroken by a two timing lady he wanted to date but saw her accidentally with another guy. He cant move out hecause his credit is bad. He would love to leave her if he had the credit abd no children with her.Cousin was getting beaten up. Likely cucked but he had lots of women. Im glad he cared enuf for himself to take on the women.
"And i can tell you he's getting alot of women". So he got the ladies after being cheated?Dont get what you are saying. No he was not popular with the ladies before he met his wife. He was heartbroken by a two timing lady he wanted to date but saw her accidentally with another guy. He cant move out hecause his credit is bad. He would love to leave her if he had the credit abd no children with her.
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.