How to deal with "explosive" GF..

"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.

Fela Kuti

Senior Don Juan

May 12, 2008

Mavrick said:
You have to have boundaries and being yelled at crosses the line. If you tell her that you don't want her to do it, then back it up, and she won't do it anymore. If she wants you in her life, she will watch what she does, and all you have to do is back it up. Back it up by backing off, and when she brings it up, tell her exactly why you're not the same. Then when she has stopped, you reward her by giving her attention once again.

Yup, I already told her that I don't want her to yell at me ever again. She apologized, saying that she can't control herself when expressing her feelings but she'll try.

"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.