She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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.
"Sure thing sweetheart! You go have fun, okay?"pyros said:What would you do if your gf said to you: 'listen, this guy friend of mine (a guy whom she met three years ago during a summer trip, who lives in a different city, whom I havent met) is coming tomorrow here for two days because of a business trip, so we agreeded to have lunch, ok?'
QFTWho Dares Win said:From my experience I can say two things:
1)the guy going to lunch with a girls definitely wants to fvck her, no guy meet a girl for lunch between tiring business activities if he doesnt have any attraction toward 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.
Mistic said:Tell her, "This is weird. A girl I used to date is coming into town. I broke up with her a few months before we met. She contacted me on FB a couple times but I ignored her. She really wants to meet for DINNER while she is in town. I feel I owe her that, so i'm gonna go meet her, OK. You dont have to wait up cuz i'll probably be home a little late."
I don't let this 5hit bother me. Why? Because 97% of the population are AFCs. I'm more interesting, fun and confident than them. The woman also knows that I will ditch her a55 if she misbehaves.Anyway, what would you do if your gf said that she's gonna have lunch with a guy friend.
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 swear this site is like the stock market and we are the analysts giving our expert recommendations. The advice changes every 8 seconds.PDubb75 said:You guys are gonna confuse the hell out of him! One person saying "it's win-win!" and the next saying "this is lose-lose!".
This ^SgtSplacker said:I always make sure to get the "what you can do I can do" point across to any woman i'm dating shiny polished crystal clear. She tells me this and i'd just reply "I didn't know I could have lunch with girls, you should have told me earlier." And totally start my mid day game strong. Remember, although girls can get laid whenever they want, they generally don't pursue lunches for a quick bang like a guy would, provided she is a decent girl in the first place. She's just provided you with a reason and method to replace her a$$ and all while you are still banging her. Win, Win... next that HO.
Also when she sees you're capitalizing on this she may start to consider you differently so it might make things better between you. Personally just seeing that she is interested in this kind of thing is a permanent turn off for me, her fate would be sealed in my camp. She just downgraded herself to a bed buddy that thinks she's my GF. In Miami, strip clubs feed you free lunch, steak and burgers and stuff.
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.
Technically speaking, all guys probably want to fvck her. If she is a 7 or above, she is probably turning people away at work, while she is shopping, or any other various activity in public.Danger said:People keep referencing jealousy.
For the umpteempth time, it is not about jealousy.
It is about your girl spending time with a man she has either fvked, or who wants to fvk her.
Do you want your woman hanging around men that want to fvk her? Are you really cool with that?
And if so, what are you going to tell her when she wants to hang out with a guy who is capable of knocking her panties off? Suddenly she can't do it?
Set the rules in the beginning, it's far better than having to change your strategy mid-relationship.
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.