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.
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.
Think this basically sums it up. There have been a couple of times where I've been persistent, and they've allowed it to go on, so I know they're BSing, but often times I'm stuck as to how to respond to it in the heat of the moment without coming off as a rapist.DonS said:This is code for "I'm not attracted to you enough to do "that"". Trust me, if she was infatuated with you, which she should of been if you were a true DJ, she'd be begging to do it for you.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
There is a difference between what a woman says and what a woman does. Some girls say they'll never date a coworker, but next thing you know, they're banging the person in the cubicle next to you.AmIAFC said:Have you ever encountered this? When you try to get a girl to get a little more freaky, she pulls out with that card. How do you respond to such nonsense? Should you respect it?
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Lol thats complete bollocks. I had a girl who would suck my d.ick, let me fvck her in the ass etc, basically everything except actual, 'straight' sex. She would call ME and offer to do stuff, but she was a strict Catholic, i.e no sex before marriage.DonS said:This is code for "I'm not attracted to you enough to do "that"". Trust me, if she was infatuated with you, which she should of been if you were a true DJ, she'd be begging to do it for you.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.