Vantagepoint34
Master Don Juan
Seems like a person I met the other day claimed the mega millions. Sadly his wife is making him donate it to the town where he bought it. What would you do in that situation?
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'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.
vantagepoint said:Seems like a person I met the other day claimed the mega millions. Sadly his wife is making him donate it to the town where he bought it. What would you do in that situation?
Do you mean something like a railroad? Or a nice road?Vice said:Foolish wife. Bureaucrats wouldn't know how to properly appropriate that money. What the hell does the town have to do with the winning ticket? If she has such a hard on for that silly fax-philanthropy, he can invest the money within the town on income producing assets.
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.
Real estate with a non-profit renting the building. That way the wife gets her warm and fuzzies, and they're not throwing away Fortuna's gift.vantagepoint said:Do you mean something like a railroad? Or a nice road?
For this we should wait until the next natural disaster. Something like the earthquake that lasted 4 months in the mid west.Vice said:Real estate with a non-profit renting the building. That way the wife gets her warm and fuzzies, and they're not throwing away Fortuna's gift.