"Blank Mind on Dates? She's Dropping Hints You Keep Missing"

The plates get cleared and the silence lands like a brick. You can feel her waiting. Your brain offers up your commute, your job, the weather — topics that have ended more second dates than bad breath.

Here's what most guys never learn: women hand out free conversational material all night long. Tiny clues about what they actually want to discuss. Catch them and you never run out of things to say — because she's telling you what to say next.

Rule 4 of the "22 Rules" trains your ear to catch every single one.

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Hard to read girl

BustedKnucks

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I can't tell if my prom date likes me!

That's kinda strange to say, I guess, but I'm in a sticky situation. For prom + limo + 2 night afterparty I'm paying around $300 for me and the same for my date. I don't want to bring some girl as just "friends," and ideally there should be a lot of hooking up involved on prom night. So I ask this girl I work with to prom, and she accepts. She's gorgeous and I love her personality, and she accepts the invitation. Only thing, we've only hung out like once. So I'm going to prom with a girl I don't really hang out with.

I figure, ok, hang out with her, but things have been getting in the way of that. Friday night she couldn't chill because she had SATs on Saturday, Saturday night I forgot to call her, but she didn't call me either. Then, come Sunday, she's mad I didn't call her on Saturday, so we make plans for the night. I get out of work and call her, and suddenly she has a family obligation, but really wants to chill soon, and will visit me at work on Monday.

I always get greeted with a kiss, and she seems really proud to introduce me to her friends as her prom date, and referred to herself as my girl a couple of times, but we still haven't hung out at all. I don't know what to make of her. =\
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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DJ Alejandro

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maybe she is, maybe she isn't. she's your prom date now. that's what's important. so what if you've hung out with her only once?! it doesn't matter. you're gonna be hanging out with her anyway.
 

Jerky Boi

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Exactly, she accepted your invitation, therefore, she was interested :] This is your chance to finally hang out with her. Take advantage of it.
 

LikRetsam

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She's into you.
 
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