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.
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.
yup.Jariel said:I'm with Bad Ass Canadian. Women, by nature, are very whimsical and indecisive, they'll change their mind over and over and at the last minute. It's frustrating as hell and it's happened to me more times than I can count, but you basically have to expect it and just put it behind you when it happens.
Sometimes they'll come around, other times they won't, but it has to be on their terms.
Meanwhile, just keep building your prospects and seeing multiple women. When one flakes, go out with the next...and so on. Women criticise men for being players, but they only have themselves to blame in my opinion.
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.
Oh trust me I agree with you 200%, I do meet multiple women, trust me I do, I have several interests right now(which gets kinda confusing) but I'm trying to figure out how to totally PREVENT it from happening!Jariel said:I'm with Bad Ass Canadian. Women, by nature, are very whimsical and indecisive, they'll change their mind over and over and at the last minute. It's frustrating as hell and it's happened to me more times than I can count, but you basically have to expect it and just put it behind you when it happens.
Sometimes they'll come around, other times they won't, but it has to be on their terms.
Meanwhile, just keep building your prospects and seeing multiple women. When one flakes, go out with the next...and so on. Women criticise men for being players, but they only have themselves to blame in my opinion.
You and me both mate! I've had a LOT of chicks flake on me over the years, either cancelling a date last minute or just waking up one day deciding to ignore me. It frustrates the hell out of me, but I've never been able to understand what goes through their mind...especially when they've been really into me/obsessive just the day before.Borknagar said:I have several interests right now(which gets kinda confusing) but I'm trying to figure out how to totally PREVENT it from happening!
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.
Borknagar said:Anyone got or know of any good material on how to deal with flakey women? That seems to be the only problem in my game, and it's probably the most annoying trait of the typical women!