"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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How to deal with a Oneitis I want to get closer to?

loving

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So I've decided to give my lack of a social life one last kick for glory.

My initial plans were to walk into school tomorrow and not talk to anyone, to allow myself the comfort I held in social deprecation. I still don't know if I will do this, it may end up seeming like the right thing to do. That is not the issue I want to address here.

More importantly, there is this girl in my class. She's on her second or third try at grade 12 and I assume this is her last semester at my school. I assume this because I've never talked to her. Anyway, she's gorgeous. An 11 on my meter if I rated girls when I wasn't talking to guys about them.

She is my oneitis.

I've never felt this way about another girl before in my 17 year old life and everything I've learned has taught me that I'd be a fool to let another day go by without dealing with this.

My question is, how?

Something deep inside me wants to just tell her how I feel deeply and romantically as those thoughts are in nature, but I have never done something like this before. Some of you might say that I will not, but to those of you I say tomorrow I will take action, based on the advice I get.

If it were my words expressing how I felt, they would go something like, "Oneitis, I can't stop feeling for you. Every time we're near eachother I go crazy with passion so overwhelming it stops me from speaking. Until now, I couldn't hold it in anymore. I'm telling you this because I'm never going to lie to spare someone's feelings or play the bull**** game and so I want to know if there's a point to keeping these feelings for you or not, because they cannot keep within me anymore."

This is one of the few posts I made with a time limit, but I think one of the most important as well. I want to say I am fine with rejection. My goal is to let her know how I feel so either I will benefit from her presence in my life or be able to move on - I know I will not be able to get over this without taking some action.

She has a boyfriend, he made her steak one night. That's all I know about their relationship, and it's the one thing keeping me from telling her my feelings. My other option, I guess, is to... Well I don't know what I would say.

So I am here to ask you, what should I do?
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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This is her second or third try at 12th grade? So she's stupid.

Take her down off the pedestal, dude.
 

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I'll bite that that did put me off a little, but I'm hardpressed to defend her by saying all the other good things I didn't include without sounding like a tool.

Is this what you mean? That now I have to rely on finding a negative to overcome whatever?

I want her. I physically want her. She's got a great personality and is gorgeous if I didn't mention that before. Yes, I am literally gushing, which is why I am second guessing my whole "state your feelings and intentions" plan.
 

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You don't deal with her AT ALL until you take her off the pedestal.

Even if you can cover your stinky cologne of desperation, lure her away from her boyfriend, and bang her, the relationship you are hoping for is doomed to fail if you place so much value on her.
 

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loving said:
Is this what you mean? That now I have to rely on finding a negative to overcome whatever?
No, I'm dead serious, that was my gut reaction after reading that. That is a glaring negative.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Loving,this post from you actually surprised me. I've seen all the threads and advice you've offered to guys here,especially to CapedCrusader08. So it kind of shocked me to see a thread like this from you,but hey,I guess everybody needs a little help from time to time. Nobody knows everything.

Well look,you should already know that just coming straight out and telling this girl how you feel is not a bad idea,it's a TERRIBLE one!
You've been here long enough to know that. I bet you that out of all of the posts and threads here where a guy came out and told a girl how he felt about her,there's not one where things turned out well. Not one. Also,you said that she already has a boyfriend. I know that you say that this is your "oneitis",but aren't there any other girls in your class/school you'd like to date? Just the facts that she's your oneitis and she already has a BF should be enough to let you know that you should move on.

However,they say that experience is the best teacher,so if you want to go ahead and do it,then fine. Go ahead and express your feelings to her.
I won't say "I told you so". It'll be good for you to learn this lesson while you're young.
 
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