"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.
Height increase
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"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.
Skilla_Staz
Master Don Juan
Rocko said:
To an extent. It's similar to the height increase astronauts experience. It's not uncommon for them to return to Earth being a few inches taller than they were when they left, due to the lack of gravity. This allows their spine to "decompress" and expand. However, that height gain is temporary, as gravitys effects will bring you "back to Earth" so to speak.
Rocko
Senior Don Juan
That has the most immediate effect on temporary height increases.
The more permanent side I BELIEVE, is mainly a combination of the mother's genetic height, the father's genetic height, how many older brothers you have, and how many older sisters you have, in that order.
I use the term genetic height, because say the third among three sons, who was short, from a tall family, had kids with a tall mother -- his genetic height is transferred to the kids, not his actual height which may be stunted by his mother's overworked uterus.
Giving birth to sons & daughters is a volatile thing, but I believe the mother's height takes precedence over this for the first 4-5 births.
This is entirely my own speculation based on real-life families I've known, including my own, which I don't care to detail, but just trust me, I'm qualified
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.