OnetimePoster
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Problem solved. Thanks for the help everyone (except you Technical
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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.
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.
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.
Is she a virgin???OnetimePoster said:Um...I think she might be using me, unknowingly or not, to get over her trust issues.
Her bitter spitefulness might be replacing true affection for me.
She's not over her ex.
I'm probably just a paranoid jerk (I realise this.)
Basically, could this be the real deal? I doubt you can answer this for sure, but I don't know.
I get the feeling I have some heartache headed my way.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
When you click with a woman it works out so well that you dont end up posting about it on boards asking for advice. Clearly you WANT to click with this girl and for her part, you DONT click.OnetimePoster said:-She's an amazingly cute-funny girl that I really click with.
If you have to post this kind of pre-emptive aggressive defense, denigrating this board's posters, you clearly are working from a position of fragile ego and general insecurity. I know where you're coming from though, dont worry about it. I might have posted with the same snotty tone 2 years ago.Of course this forum is filled with idiots that won’t even bother reading and will only come up with a glib, shallow conclusion that will just end up insulting me. So in advance: Go screw yourself you jerks.
You're defensively insulating yourself from the interaction with this board's posters before its even taken place. Its obvious you fear it, or the issues that might be brought up by it. And well you should, you're living on ego rather than natural confidence and your trying to prop up a fragile self-concept. Like I said, work on yourself first.Of course I appreciate any serious responses, not that I'll come back to read them.