MatureDJ
Master Don Juan
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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.
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.
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.
Evidently that guy had a sex drive like a male Black Widow spider - bodily injury as the reward for sex. :crazy:Proselytiser said:My dad was a cop in England. They got a call every now and again from a woman (a bodybuilder) who said she had been beaten by her boyfriend. It was her that had been beating the boyfriend, but the police could not prove either one. Eventually the woman got a restraining order on her boyfriend, but then every time she got drunk, she called him saying she was sorry and still loved him and to come over, where she'd promptly beat him again, the cops would be called, the guy accused of beating the woman and they would tell the guy 'just don't go there, ever, under any circumstance'.
Nevertheless he wen't back about 20 times to her house and was beaten senseless each and every time