"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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"Has goals and is working towards them"

FlexpertHamilton

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Who cares what they mean, they don't even know what they want.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Been checking through the online dating apps, and I always see this statement about what a woman desires in her man-

"Has goals and is working towards them".

So I'm getting the impression this is kind of a big deal.

What do they really mean, and why is it a big deal?

I've never heard a man ask for this trait in his woman. Help me out here, guys...
It's very important to have goals. My goal is to bang a woman from every country in the world.
 

Roober

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You guys are complicating a very simple issue

In your 20s, she will accept and ambition and goals as credit
In your 30s, she will accept that you may be a late bloomer as credit

If you are not successful in your 40s, you're just another lazy chump.
 

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And it isn't the kiss of death. I was in a career change phase in my 40s work was up and down. Still had plenty of dates and 3 ltrs (which was basically most of the decade). If a girl likes you in you have a little bit of game she will forgive all sorts of deficiencies. It's one of my definitions of a good woman if she can see that you are working hard towards something she hangs around where as the gold diggers and attention hors only care of what bank you are making and status. Of course that is time limited but at least you get given a chance. Remember it's just your turn
 
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