MatureDJ
Master Don Juan
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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.
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.
HeHeHe. No, even worse I think two women wrote it lol.bigjohnson said:Did LMS write this paper?
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.
'insidious said:If anything, feminists would have to face the fact that in
the profession of prostitution, the famed "glass ceiling" is
reversed with women making much more than men.
Shhhh.....you might kill the romanceRollo Tomassi said:As I've posted on many times before, but it bears repeating, as a Man you will ALWAYS pay for sex in some way. You may finance it, you may buy it retail, you might rent it and you might just beat off to the advertising, but rest assured, you WILL pay.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
It's great stuff, but for the most part no one wants to think about this stuff. Some people know it, quite a few divorced guys suspect it in a really angry and bitter way, but almost no one wants to just accept it for what it is without anger or other emotions.ketostix said:HeHeHe. No, even worse I think two women wrote it lol.
Rollo Tomassi said:As I've posted on many times before, but it bears repeating, as a Man you will ALWAYS pay for sex in some way. You may finance it, you may buy it retail, you might rent it and you might just beat off to the advertising, but rest assured, you WILL pay.
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 totally, 100% agree with you. It's truly a shame that it's illegal in virtually every state(except Nevada of course). I really can't understand why. It doesn't make sense. As long as the woman is tested and practices safe sex(condoms, birth control, etc.).steve38 said:I sincerely believe that if prostitution was affordable, accessible, and most importantly, socially acceptable to all males that the world would be a better place. Divorce rate much lower, women not as powerful, guys having options etc.
Wow, I didn't know that. That's news to me.KontrollerX said:She said months and years prior to her death that she feared she would be "suicided" and she also made it clear that if she were ever found dead it would be murder despite any official claims.
So yeah I'm pretty much running with the theory that some powerful scum had her eliminated.
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.