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 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.
Maybe I'm still inexperienced but sometimes they really try to make you feel bad/guilty for not being their "friend".abe0 said:I tend to respond to the first text by being polite...."doing well, thanks for asking"....I do not ask how they are doing nor ask any further questions to invite a wasteful conversation. If they text back again...I ignore and hopefully they get the message. If I really do not care at all because she is truly an attention grabbing b+tch....then I totally ignore so that they GO AWAY. Abe
So just ignore?PlayHer Man said:How do you deal with girls that just want to be "friends"? --> YOU DON'T.
Men with options who are spinning plates don't have time to be a faggot beta orbiter for some arrogant attention wh0re.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
PlayHer Man said:How do you deal with girls that just want to be "friends"? --> YOU DON'T.
Men with options who are spinning plates don't have time to be a faggot beta orbiter for some arrogant attention wh0re.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
So if you're her friend you're automatically a level 60 beta orbiter? Ahaha. OP if you want to be friends with them then be friends with them. If you get friend zoned then stopped talking to them.PlayHer Man said:How do you deal with girls that just want to be "friends"? --> YOU DON'T.
Men with options who are spinning plates don't have time to be a faggot beta orbiter for some arrogant attention wh0re.
Good one bro.....lolskinnyguy said:Try to put your hand down her shirt or caress her legs.
If she resists, it's her fault for leading you on. Just say "I thought you were into me". Win win situation for you.
Let them try. Why would you care what a woman you're not f*cking thinks?teddy said:So just ignore?
Like I said above, some of these women try their best to make you feel guilty.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.