"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Has this happened to you before?

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So I email this acquaintance/work friend about trying out a new restaurant. She writes back that she would like to go with me and asks when I was thinking of going. I write back on Wed morning that I would like to go the next Tuesday. I don't hear back from her for like 2 days. Now, I am emailing her work addy so she should be seeing it immediately (as I know she is at work since my boy sees her daily at work).

So on Friday morning I write back and asks if she would like to go. She writes back in like 1 minute and says that she is busy on Tuesday, that she thought she wrote back already and that she is very sorry. She also suggests that we might try the next week. So I write back again, this time suggesting the following Monday (which is like 9 days from that Friday).

I wrote back last Friday and have yet to hear back as of Monday night. What gives? Should I just give up?
 

"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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Rex Man

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ok, why are you scheduling stuff so far in advance? That's prob #1
 

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Cause she told me that she is busy for the rest of the week and suggested the following week. I guess I should have waited till like Wed and then asked her?
 

Pimp-sicle

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Low Interest!!!






Pimp
 

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mrblue said:
Cause she told me that she is busy for the rest of the week and suggested the following week. I guess I should have waited till like Wed and then asked her?

Ask 10 more girls... So if this one gives you wouldn't care.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Leporello

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Why are you going to a restaurant in the morning? is it an IHOP?
 
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