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.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
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.
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