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.
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 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.
Bah.. You know them these days. Inspired by the bible and just spit it back out. You won't get what you're looking for I'm afraid.Originally posted by tactic
Ok Lik, I believe you're accusing me of hating AFC. I was, afriad to 'fess up, a horrible AFC myself. I'm not hating, I just wanted to see what their answers were going to be. And with the answers, we help. Get it?
indeed, because nobody wants to admit that they are AFCOriginally posted by LikRetsam
Bah.. You know them these days. Inspired by the bible and just spit it back out. You won't get what you're looking for I'm afraid.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Indeed it does. But can you figure out the 5 other meanings?Originally posted by CaptainMorgan
hey Lik, i dont know if this is on purpose or not but ur name spelled backwards is masterkil (you probably new that).....this brings me back to the days when i use to go by the name etabretsam on another website.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
The first step to self improvement is acknowledging our problems.Originally posted by Smooth as Anything
Average Frustrated Chump... no one will ever label themselves that, except in retrospect.
LOL these days, you talk as if been registered here since the depression, dang I have only been here short of a year, you you shorter than that. Sorry but that phrase reminded me of one of the old dudes that sits in front of the barber shop.Originally posted by LikRetsam
Bah.. You know them these days. Inspired by the bible and just spit it back out. You won't get what you're looking for I'm afraid.