You replay the conversation at 2 a.m. She texted back fast yesterday. Today, nothing. Was that smile friendly or flirty? What did the shoulder touch mean?
Every hour you spend decoding her signals drains your confidence and hands her the controls. Women can sense that insecurity from across the room — and it repels them.
One of the "22 Rules" kills the obsession on the spot: assume she likes you, and act accordingly. Sounds too simple. Works anyway.
Her interest tends to rise to meet your expectations. Psychologists call it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Harry - you know I think you're awesome…but what do you think of using texting to build rapport. If you've only met a girl once, say at a club, how are you going to get her on a date without a little bit of banter?Harry Wilmington said:You: "Help, I can't text a girl"
Me: "Great - you shouldn't be texting them anyway"
In fact, the only time you should be using the phone - texting or calling (I prefer calling, but people on these boards will argue otherwise) - is to set up a date. The less you say on the phone, the more you'll have to say in person. Don't buy into the lie that a girl needs to hear from you all the time - she doesn't. Especially if you know you're boring on the phone, you're not helping yourself by jumping on the phone just because you THINK it's what you're supposed to do. It's not. Learn how to use texting (if necessary) to ask them out while sounding fun, but for the love of GOD don't think constantly text flirting is necessary to keep a girl around.
Hope this helps!
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
skinnyguy said:Harry - you know I think you're awesome…but what do you think of using texting to build rapport. If you've only met a girl once, say at a club, how are you going to get her on a date without a little bit of banter?
If I go straight for the date, I almost always get shot down. If I build up rapport with her and get her interested in me, I almost always score a date.
I know that you are completely anti-texting and I respect that. I just think that guys can learn some text game, since most girls these days do NOT pick up their phones and prefer to text. I've had girls specifically tell me they don't like talking on the phone.
I don't like the idea of texting to build rapport. In my experience, if I make a good enough impression on them when I first meet them, there's no need to banter with them prior to calling them up for a date. I've met girls at parties/clubs/school/work/etc, and in each scenario my game is the same: give her social proof by not talking to her first; create a "transitional conversation" that allows me to talk to her without it feeling forced; get her laughing while talking close enough to her to where she feels we're already bonding; wait for her to kino me first (via a light touch while telling me a story, sitting on my lap, etc.); then, at the height of those good feelings, get the number and bounce. I leave on a high note with her so that she's looking forward to me calling her and asking her out - thus, me not having to constantly text her for 3 days prior.skinnyguy said:Harry - you know I think you're awesome…but what do you think of using texting to build rapport. If you've only met a girl once, say at a club, how are you going to get her on a date without a little bit of banter?
If I go straight for the date, I almost always get shot down. If I build up rapport with her and get her interested in me, I almost always score a date.
I know that you are completely anti-texting and I respect that. I just think that guys can learn some text game, since most girls these days do NOT pick up their phones and prefer to text. I've had girls specifically tell me they don't like talking on the phone.